HP-UX Workload Manager A.03.05.xx Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 (B8843-90051, February 2011)
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX Workload Manager A.03.05.xx Release Notes
- Table of Contents
- 1 Announcement
- 2 New in this version
- 3 Known problems and workarounds
- System panic when PRM is enabled; install failure in absence of PRM when certain kernel patches are present
- Capping issue
- WLM uses only the assigned CPU resources even with utilitypri set
- Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP) expires while WLM is managing nPartitions
- Automatic activation of Instant Capacity core without authorization
- Partition management affected when cores are deactivated with iCAP on fully owned system
- Application hangs in FSS group
- Shutdown slow; “Waiting for shutdown confirmation” and “Shutdown initiated; however, ... unable to acquire confirmation” messages displayed
- Unable to get CPU allocation due to number of processes
- Collectors abort when updated while running
- GlancePlus/OpenView Performance Agent and processor sets
- GlancePlus may not correctly identify processes’ PRM groups
- glance Adviser memory consumption increases continually
- WLM enables/disables SLOs at end of interval
- No metrics on startup or reconfiguration
- WLM configurations cannot be activated with fewer than 100 Mbytes of memory available
- Secure Resource Partitions: Blocked port on a virtual network interface
- Reaching the system V semaphore limit
- Configuration wizard requires PRM
- Processes in transient FSS groups appear unexpectedly in other workload groups
- Modifying a managed partition requires WLM and the global arbiter be stopped
- Performing online cell operations
- WLM GUI is not compatible with different versions of WLM
- "Message violation" error
- Upgrading or installing PRM before upgrading WLM can cause failed swverify checks
- 4 Compatibility information and installation requirements
- Disk and memory requirements
- Network operating environment
- Compatibility with other software
- Compatibility with long hostnames
- Compatibility with X Windows
- Compatibility with GlancePlus
- Compatibility with HP Integrity Virtual Machines
- Compatibility of WLM virtual partition management and Instant Capacity / PPU
- Compatibility of WLM virtual partition management and certain CPU bindings
- Compatibility of WLM partition management and PSETs
- Compatibility of psrset and PSETs
- Compatibility with PRM
- Compatibility with gWLM
- Compatibility with Java
- Installation procedure
- 5 Patches and fixes in this version
- 6 Software availability in native languages
- 7 Security
- 8 Available manuals
- 9 WLM toolkits
- 10 Providing feedback
- 11 Training
8 Available manuals
Several related manuals are available. These manuals can be accessed at http://www.hp.com/go/
wlm. They are also available for order.
Specific WLM information can be found in:
• HP-UX Workload Manager User’s Guide (B8844-90014)
The release notes for each version of WLM can be found at http://www.hp.com/go/wlm.
The user’s guide is available in /opt/wlm/share/doc/.
WLM Toolkits information can be found in:
• HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits User’s Guide (T1302-90040)
The WLMTK documentation is available in /opt/wlm/toolkits/doc/.
PRM information can be found in:
• HP Process Resource Manager User’s Guide (B8733-90025)
Information about HP-UX system administration and Logical Volume Manager can be found
in:
• Managing Systems and Workgroups (B2355-90950) for HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2
• HP-UX System Administrator's Guide (multiple volumes) for HP-UX 11i v3
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