HP-UX 11i v3 Read Before Installing or Updating, September 2011

• HP Serviceguard Network File System (NFS) Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.31.02 with
new control script template and a defect fix. Can work with Serviceguard A.11.17.01, but
does not support some Serviceguard A.11.17.01 and NFS HP-UX 11i v3 features. Customers
who need VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) should not upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 until CFS
is available on that platform.
• HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.5 to incorporate defect fixes.
In addition, many more system management tools are integrated in HP SMH for HP-UX 11i
v3 then HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005.
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to “HP SIM 5.0 with Update 2 - HP-UX” with support
for HP BladeSystem c-Class blade and enclosure, and onboard administrator; HP BladeSystem
Integrated Manager 2.1 with updated functionality; minimum system memory configuration
to run HP SIM on HP-UX 11i v3 is now 3GB, and defect fixes.
• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.05 with association providers,
internationalization support for CIM operations, CIM schema upgrade, and other major
changes.
• HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: New TUI in place of the legacy SAM interface; new
Web-based GUI; improved performance with the new TUI interface; supports long username
and groups.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: New TUI in place of the legacy SAM interface; New Web-based
GUI; Error Management Technology support; critical defect fixes.
• New: HP-UX Large NPROC: The HP-UX 11i v3 system can support more processes running
concurrently then previous releases, changing from 30,000 to 60,000.
• New: HP-UX Large PID: The range of Process Identifiers (PID) the kernel can generate in a
stand-alone HP-UX system has been expanded from 0 ~ 30,000 to 0 ~ 2^^30-1
(1,073,741,823).
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Enhanced to support the Agile Hardware Path Addressing
and Persistent Device Special Files; enhanced to allow for Online deletion of OLRAD cards;
now reads the detailed CRA report from the log file in which the report is logged after the
change in the CRA behavior; and more.
• HP-UX System V IPC Message Queues: Enhanced with dynamic tuning capabilities. Tunables
msgmax, msgssz, msgmap, msgseg are obsolete. Added new dynamic tunable msgmbs;
indicates maximum kernel memory to be used for messages waiting to be received. Tunables
msgmni, msgtql are made dynamic.
• New: HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Client applications can use this provider to get
information about HP-UX Fibre Channel HBAs on the system.
• New: HP-UX WBEM File System Provider: Makes available file system information; instruments
the HPUX_HFS, HP_LOFS, HP_CDFS, HP_VxFS, HP_NFS, HP_MountPoint and HPUX_Mount
classes.
• New: HP-UX WBEM IOTree Provider: Client applications can use HP-UX WBEM IOTree provider
to get information about HP-UX IOTree host-bus adapters (HBAs) on the system.
• New: HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces (WBEMP-LAN-00): Is a CIM Provider
for Ethernet-based LAN technologies on HP-UX. Client applications can use this provider to
determine all Ethernet LAN links available on the system (registered and known to HP-UX DLPI)
and collect information about them.
• New: HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider: Not currently supported; intended
to support features in future releases of HP-UX 11i v3.
• New: HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Client Applications can use this provider to get information
about HP-UX SCSI host-bus adapters (HBAs) on the system.
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