Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (Software Release C.75.02) HP e3000 MPE/iX Computer Systems Volume 13, Issue 3 Manufacturing Part Number : 30216-90352 E0604 U.S.A.
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Contents 1. Overview — MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.02) Communicator Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 1, Overview — Communicator Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 2, Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 3, Technical Articles . .
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Overview — MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.02) 1 Overview — MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.02) This Communicator HP e3000 provides general and detailed information on the new and enhanced functionality for the MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.02) as well as information on support, release strategy and installation prerequisites. This Communicator should be used in conjunction with the Communicators from Release 7.5. Only information relating to the Release 7.
Overview — MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.02) Communicator Summary Communicator Summary Following are brief descriptions of the articles and chapters. Chapter 1, Overview — Communicator Summary This chapter provides a summary of information contained in this manual. It also provides information about obtaining MPE patches from the HP Electronic Support Center. Chapter 2, Announcements Important announcements regarding availability of products and services are included in this chapter.
Overview — MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.02) MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center by Patch Support Team Commercial Systems Division MPE/iX patches for MPE/iX Releases are available on the IT Resource Center (previously the HP Electronic Support Center) to all customers. Features and Benefits The patch access and delivery system benefits all MPE/iX customers with: • Improved overall communication between HP and customers.
Overview — MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.02) MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center Electronic Digests If you want to keep yourself up-to-date on the latest development of MPE/iX patches, you can sign up for the daily Security Bulletin and weekly mpeix_patch Bulletin. Once you have subscribed to these two bulletins, you will receive these digests on a periodic basis via electronic mail. HP IT Resource Center will inform you proactively about newly developed security and GR patches.
Overview — MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.02) MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center AUTOPAT Installation Document Retrieval AUTOPATINST is the “DOCID” of the document with instructions to assist you in installing one or more patches needed by your MPE/iX system using the AUTOPAT installation tool. 1. Access the HP IT Resource Center WEB site (previously the Electronic Support Center) using the appropriate WEB address for your country. 2.
Overview — MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 (C.75.
Announcements MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 2 Announcements MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 2 MPE/iX and the e3000 have been dutifully serving HP customers for nearly 30 years. On November 14th, 2001 HP announced the end of sales for the HP e3000 and MPE/iX. That date (November 1, 2003 for end of sales) has now passed. HP is pleased to announce the delivery of MPE/iX 7.5 PowerPatch 2 in June, 2004. HP realizes that customers are planning their migration away from the e3000 and MPE/iX.
Announcements Obtaining Software Security Patches for your HP Computer System Obtaining Software Security Patches for your HP Computer System Hewlett-Packard would like to make you aware of a special free service provided for all customers of HP e3000 and HP 9000 computer systems. This service gives customers a direct route to Hewlett-Packard for obtaining information relating to the security of their Hewlett-Packard Computer System(s).
Announcements Obtaining Software Security Patches for your HP Computer System 1. Use your browser to access the HP IT Resource Center web page at: http://us-support.external.hp.com US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America http://europe-support.external.hp.com Europe 2. Logon with your User ID and password (or register for one). Remember to save the User ID assigned to you, and your password. 3. Once on the archive page, scroll down to find “MPE Security Bulletins”.
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Technical Articles 3 Technical Articles This chapter contains the following articles: • Enhanced Host-based DTC Management Functionality • High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays • Support for the HP SureStore Virtual Array 7110 and 7410 on the HP e3000 • Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX • Predictive Installation changes • TurboIMAGE B-Tree Behavior Clarifiaction Chapter 3 15
Technical Articles Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality by John Spitzer, MPE/iX Lab Introduction The HP e3000 uses the Datacommunications and Terminal Controller (DTC) to provide the hardware and functionality to configure and establish connections to the HP e3000 via Asynchronous Serial ports and X.25/PAD protocols.
Technical Articles Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality Supportability and Other Enhancements To support the enhancements listed above, the following TermDSM and DTCCNTRL functions have also been enhanced: TermDSM commands: CONNECT This command now displays the appropriate information for all supported connection types through both the X.25 and Direct connect cards that are going to any system that has been allowed access from the DTC. MULTI This new command allows you start or stop the X.
Technical Articles Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality DCC WARNING P-L, NMCONFIG is previous version. Run NMMGRVER. (DCCWARN 52) The DTS configuration created is identical to what was created prior to the update. • In NMMGR, if you attempt to display the DTS configuration before running NMMGRVER, a screen states that the DTS subsystem has been updated. From this screen you can launch NMMGRVER to perform the conversion of the NMCONFIG file without exiting NMMGR.
Technical Articles Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality :run NMMGRVER;PARM=77; Or from within NMMGR by pressing the [Go To Migrate] key on the Utility screen. Migrating to Host-Based DTC Management The migration process has been designed from the view that you will be migrating your HP e3000 host from PC-Based management to Host-Based Management.
Technical Articles Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays by Jim Hawkins, MPE/iX Lab General Information At no charge, High Availability FailOver/iX (HAFO or HAFO/iX) is now available for HP e3000 systems connected to many of HP’s VA and XP family Fibre Channel (FC) disk array products. Support is offered for customers with HP e3000 A/N-Class systems running MPE/iX 7.
Technical Articles Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays CAUTION Before deploying HAFO, system disk I/O performance should be analyzed. Those systems with disk I/O bottlenecks (long disk queues and/or I/O completion times greater than a few seconds) are not good HAFO candidates as false failover events may be seen. NOTE Those customers using Cluster/iX to protect their MPE/iX disk volumes may NOT use HAFO/iX on these same volumes.
Technical Articles Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays Documentation Please refer to http://docs.hp.com/ for the new edition of the HAFO manual: High Availability FailOver/iX Manual (MPE/iX 7.0, MPE/iX 7.5) Edition 2, date code E0803, Part Number: 32650-90911 (“.pdf ” only) The previous version of the manual still applies to MPE/iX 6.5 customers with SCSI XP256: "High Availability Failover Utilities Configuration Guide" (Part No.
Technical Articles HP SureStore Virtual Array 7110 and 7410 on the HP e3000 HP SureStore Virtual Array 7110 and 7410 on the HP e3000 by Jim Hawkins, MPE/iX Lab The HP StorageWorks Virtual Array is a low-cost, high capacity, high performance, 2 Gb Fibre Channel virtual disk array that delivers industry leading uptime. You can mix and match drives of different size, and add capacity instantly. HP's hot swap technology and redundant components reduce planned downtime.
Technical Articles HP SureStore Virtual Array 7110 and 7410 on the HP e3000 — F/W SCSI Device Adapter HP28696A. Firmware version 3728 — SCSI-FC Fabric Router A5814A #003. Firmware version 8.01.0A — HSSDC Gigabit Interface Converters (GBIC) — Fibre optic cable: 62- or 50-micron fibre optic cable with dual SC connector OR — A/N-Class (PCI based systems): — A6795A PCI- 2Gbit Card -- LC Cable interface — No additional GBIC for Card, Device still requires one.
Technical Articles Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX by Jim Hawkins, MPE/iX Lab The purpose of this article is to document the limited support offered for Ultrium Tape Devices (a.k.a. “LTO”) on MPE/iX. The primary considerations are outlined below. Items #3 and #4 are unique to Ultrium Tape Devices and represent a departure from traditional MPE/iX tape device support. 1.
Technical Articles Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX Error Reporting, Diagnostics and Firmware Updates MPE/iX logs all Ultrium Tape device errors and checks conditions to the system log files as with other SCSI tapes. System Log files can then be examined with LOGTOOL or cstm’s logtool utility. Similarly, all standard tape console messages such as AVR tape mount or cleaning cartridge prompts can be seen. However, MPE/iX cstm (a.k.a.
Technical Articles Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX Configuration Example: Given the following output from “ISL> ODE RUN MAPPER2” 0/6 Elroy PCI Bridge 0/6/2/0 Symbios SCSI Controller 0/6/2/0.3.0 Ultrium (LTO) 1-SCSI Tape drive DH 782H AH 0 0 - - - - E32D The following SYSGEN (IOCONFIG) commands would be used: sysgen> sysgen> sysgen> sysgen> sysgen> ap ap ap ap ad 0/6 pat_pci_bc 0/6/2 pci_device 0/6/2/0 A5149A 0/6/2/0.3 PSEUDO 19 0/6/2/0.3.
Technical Articles Predictive Changes SYSSTART during UPDATE Predictive Changes SYSSTART during UPDATE by Gary Robillard, Predictive Support Due to some customer sites having multiple startup directives in SYSSTART.PUB.SYS, the job that installs Predictive has been modified to recognize this. Previously, this Predictive job would just add the "STREAM JPSMON.PRED.SYS" line to the end of SYSSTART. Now, the job modifies the SYSSTART file as follows: 1.
Technical Articles TurboIMAGE B-Tree Behavior Clarification TurboIMAGE B-Tree Behavior Clarification by Tien You Chen, MPE/iX Lab Possible Confusing Behavior TurboIMAGE has supported B-Tree indices since C.07.00. Even though a user can create a B-Tree index only on the master data set’s key item, s/he can perform index searches using all of its corresponding detail data set search items as well.
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