ONC+ Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 Manufacturing Part Number: 5991-8714 March 2007 © Copyright 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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1 ONC+ Release Notes This document contains the most recent product information pertaining to the Open Networking Computing product that is supported on the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system.
ONC+ Release Notes • “Announcement” on page 5 • “NIS+ Obsolescence Notice” on page 6 • “NIS Protocol Version 1 Deprecation Notice” on page 6 • “What’s New in This Version of NFS” on page 7 • “What’s New in This Version of AutoFS” on page 9 • “What’s New in This Version of CacheFS” on page 11 • “What’s New in This Version of NIS” on page 12 • “Related Information” on page 12 • “Known Problems and Workarounds” on page 13 • “Patches and Fixes in This Version” on page 14 • “Software Availa
ONC+ Release Notes Announcement Announcement Open Network Computing (ONC) is a technology that comprises core services. The core services enable administrators to implement distributed applications in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. It also includes tools to administer clients and servers.
ONC+ Release Notes Announcement NIS+ Obsolescence Notice The Network Information Service Plus (NIS+), is a distributed database system that enables the maintenance of commonly used configuration information on a master server, and propagates the information to all the hosts in the network. Starting with HP-UX 11i v3, NIS+ is no longer supported. HP recommends that users migrate to LDAP. NOTE For information on how to migrate from NIS+ to LDAP, see NIS+ to LDAP Migration Guide: http://docs.hp.
ONC+ Release Notes What’s New in This Version of NFS What’s New in This Version of NFS NFS supports the following new features: • NFS Version 4 Protocol (NFSv4) NFSv4 is an IETF Internet standards track protocol. It extends the existing protocol defined by NFSv2 and NFSv3. NFSv4 supports the following features: — COMPOUND Procedure In NFSv4, related RPC requests are grouped into a single RPC procedure known as the COMPOUND procedure.
ONC+ Release Notes What’s New in This Version of NFS — Single Protocol The MOUNT, Network Lock Manager (NLM), and the Network Status Monitor (NSM) protocols are merged into the NFS protocol. Merging these protocols into a single protocol enables easy configuration of firewalls. • Support for WebNFS WebNFS is an extension of the NFS protocol. It enables easy access to files across the Internet. Filesystems on the Internet can appear to a user as a local filesystem.
ONC+ Release Notes What’s New in This Version of AutoFS What’s New in This Version of AutoFS AutoFS supports the following new features: • LDAP Support AutoFS supports LDAP directories for AutoFS map storage and distribution. • NFSv4 Support AutoFS supports NFSv4 filesystems. • Secure NFS Support AutoFS supports secure NFS filesystems. • IPv6 Support AutoFS provides support for mounting filesystems over IPv6 transports.
ONC+ Release Notes What’s New in This Version of AutoFS • CIFS Client Support AutoFS supports mounting and unmounting of the HP CIFS client filesystems. • NFS loopback mount By default, AutoFS uses the Local File Systems (LOFS) mounts for locally mounted filesystems. AutoFS provides an option to allow loopback NFS mounts for the local mount. Use this option in the High Availability NFS environments.
ONC+ Release Notes What’s New in This Version of CacheFS What’s New in This Version of CacheFS CacheFS supports the following new features: • Cachefspack The cachefspack command improves CacheFS performance and enables greater control over the cache contents, because it ensures that the specified files are always present in the cache. This command enables administrators to pre-load specific files and directories in the cache. This functionality is comparable to the rpages option.
ONC+ Release Notes What’s New in This Version of NIS What’s New in This Version of NIS NIS supports the following new features: • Shadow Mode Starting with this version, NIS supports shadow password mode. This enables NIS subsystem to recognize a system in shadow mode and build, store and retrieve the password information accordingly. • DNS Forwarding Mode The DNS Forwarding Mode enables the NIS server to contact DNS server to service hosts/ipnodes requests.
ONC+ Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds There are no known problems in this version of ONC+.
ONC+ Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version There are no patches for this version of ONC+.
ONC+ Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages The ONC+ software is available in English language only.
