HP PRM Version C.03.00 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2

PRM Release Notes
What’s in this version
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What’s in this version
PRM Version C.03.00 includes the following new features or changes:
• Integration with the HP product Security Containment
Security Containment, available for HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) and later, allows you to define
secure compartments to isolate files and processes. Using PRM, you can map secure
compartments to PRM groups—and manage the resource allocations for your secure
compartments. This combination is known as Secure Resource Partitions.
The prmlist command now has an optional -s [compartment] option for limiting output
to compartment records.
The prmavail -f command indicates whether compartments are available on the system.
For information, see the prmconf(4), prmlist(1), prmavail(1), scomp2prm(1),
prm2scomp(1), and srpgen(1) man pages.
• Increase in number of supported groups
Starting with C.03.00, PRM supports 256 PRM groups on HP-UX 11i V2 Update 2 and
later. Older versions of HP-UX still support only 64 groups. You can use the prmavail
command to determine how many groups are supported on a given system.
• prm3d is no longer started by default
For security purposes, the prm3d daemon used for remote management is no longer
started by default at boot in the file /etc/rc.config.d/prm.
You can manually set the value of PRM_RMTCONF to 1 in the /etc/rc.config.d/prm file to allow
automatic starting of the daemon.
• Integration with HP Systems Insight Manager
Using HP Systems Insight Manager, you can perform PRM operations on multiple
systems from a central location.
• SSL encryption of remote management using xprm is now enabled by default
The property prmrmi_ssl in the file /var/opt/prm/prmrmi.properties is now set to true by
default. Each system you attempt to securely connect to must also have this property set
to true.
Set this value to false to use xprm with PRM versions that do not support the
/var/opt/prm/prmrmi.properties file.