HP-UX Workload Manager A.03.05.xx Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3

Contents
1 Announcement...........................................................................................5
2 New in this version.....................................................................................6
3 Known problems and workarounds ..............................................................7
System panic when PRM is enabled; install failure in absence of PRM when certain kernel patches
are present..............................................................................................................................7
Capping issue..........................................................................................................................7
WLM uses only the assigned CPU resources even with utilitypri set..................................................7
Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP) expires while WLM is managing nPartitions...............................8
Automatic activation of Instant Capacity core without authorization.................................................8
Partition management affected when cores are deactivated with iCAP on fully owned system..............8
Application hangs in FSS group..................................................................................................9
Shutdown slow; Waiting for shutdown confirmation and Shutdown initiated; however, ... unable to
acquire confirmation messages displayed....................................................................................9
Unable to get CPU allocation due to number of processes............................................................10
Collectors abort when updated while running.............................................................................10
GlancePlus/OpenView Performance Agent and processor sets.....................................................10
GlancePlus may not correctly identify processes’ PRM groups.......................................................11
glance Adviser memory consumption increases continually...........................................................11
WLM enables/disables SLOs at end of interval..........................................................................11
No metrics on startup or reconfiguration....................................................................................11
WLM configurations cannot be activated with fewer than 100 Mbytes of memory available.............11
Secure Resource Partitions: Blocked port on a virtual network interface..........................................12
Reaching the system V semaphore limit......................................................................................12
Configuration wizard requires PRM...........................................................................................12
Processes in transient FSS groups appear unexpectedly in other workload groups...........................13
Modifying a managed partition requires WLM and the global arbiter be stopped...........................13
Performing online cell operations..............................................................................................13
WLM GUI is not compatible with different versions of WLM.........................................................14
"Message violation" error........................................................................................................14
Upgrading or installing PRM before upgrading WLM can cause failed swverify checks....................14
4 Compatibility information and installation requirements ................................15
Disk and memory requirements.................................................................................................15
Network operating environment................................................................................................15
Compatibility with other software..............................................................................................16
Compatibility with long hostnames............................................................................................16
Compatibility with X Windows.................................................................................................16
Compatibility with GlancePlus .................................................................................................16
Compatibility with HP Integrity Virtual Machines.........................................................................17
Compatibility of WLM virtual partition management and Instant Capacity / PPU............................17
Compatibility of WLM virtual partition management and certain CPU bindings...............................17
Compatibility of WLM partition management and PSETs..............................................................17
Compatibility of psrset and PSETs.............................................................................................17
Compatibility with PRM...........................................................................................................18
Compatibility with gWLM........................................................................................................18
Compatibility with Java...........................................................................................................18
Installation procedure .............................................................................................................19
Using the swinstall Graphical User Interface (GUI)..................................................................28
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