HP-UX 11i v3 March 2014 Release Notes

• Software Package Builder: Added new policy files that include the expansion of the acceptable
category tags, the addition of the is_oe attribute, and changes to the architecture and
os_release attribute rules.
• System Administration Manager (SAM): Deprecated. The smh command is recommended,
but sam command will continue to be available. Some functional areas previously available
are obsoleted.
• System Administration Manager (SAM) Auditing and Security Functional Area: System Security
Policies subarea of SAM is replaced with the HP--UX Security Attributes Configuration tool;
Audited NIS+ Users subarea is obsolete.
• System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters Functional Area: Launch point in
X/ObAM-based GUI mode is now via the HP System Management Homepage.
• System Administration Management Tool Changes: SAM and HP System Management
Homepage: System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i v3. HP System
Management Homepage (HP SMH) is the system administration tool for managing HP-UX 11i.
HP SMH provides web-based systems management functionality, at-a-glance monitoring of
system component health, and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides Terminal
User Interfaces (TUIs).
• System Fault Management: Features include Event Manager-Common Information Model
Provider and Error Management Technology. SFMIndicationProvider and Log Viewer not
available; other changes included.
• Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: The update-ux command now uses Software Manager, a
new application that provides features including support for preview; interactive TUI; better
support for multiple media, including more accurate disk space analysis, dependency selection
across media; and improved logging capabilities.
• Virtual Memory Kernel Tunable physical_io_buffers: Now obsolete. Was used in HP-UX
11i v1.6 and v2 to size a shared buffer pool for physical I/O operations in the kernel. As of
HP-UX 11i v3 and later, the kernel automatically manages the pool size.
• Virtual Memory Kernel Tunables: The eqmem_limit (only on PA-RISC systems) has been
added. Several tunables has been removed. See the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes for
details.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”
• HFS (also known as UFS) File System Type: Now deprecated. Will be removed from the OS
in a future release, to be determined.
• HFS file system and backup commands: To work on file sizes larger than 2 TB.
• HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.02.01 with support for MS Distributed File System
(DFS) and DLKM feature and other changes.
• HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0f version A.02.03: Redesign of Winbind code; File Locking
Interoperation Functionality; support for long user and group names; support for TDB Memory
Map.
• HP-UX File Systems Architecture Enhancements: Numerous enhancements include VFS stacking
capabilities; fsdaemon user level daemon; large file systems and large files support; improved
file systems syncer; performance improvement of aio_reap(2); support of larger files and long
link names in backup utility; and several other enhancements.
• Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX: Delivers significant scalability and availability
enhancements. Supports the next generation mass storage stack, and is integrated with the
mass storage stack’s load balancing and dynamic LUN expansion features; enhanced to
support larger logical volumes, temporary suspension of volume groups, striping with mirroring,
and dynamic LUN expansion; enables online modification of a volume group, as well as a
new script to simplify the replacement of a failing disk.
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