Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 5 (Software Release C.75.05) HP e3000 MPE/iX Computer Systems Volume 14, Issue 5 Manufacturing Part Number : 30216-90372 E0708 U.S.A.
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Contents 1. Overview: MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 5 (C.75.05) Communicator Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 1, Overview — Communicator Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 2, Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 3, Technical Articles . . .
Contents Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hardware and Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ultrium Tape Usage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Error Reporting, Diagnostics and Firmware Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 Overview: MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 5 (C.75.05) This Communicator HP e3000 provides general and detailed information on the new and enhanced functionality for the MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 5 (C.75.05), as well as information on support, release strategy and installation prerequisites. This Communicator should be used in conjunction with the Communicators from Releases 7.5. Only information relating to the Release 7.5 PowerPatches 1, 2, 3 and 5 is contained in this document.
Overview: MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 5 (C.75.05) 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 5 (C.75.05) 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 5 (C.75.05) 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 5 (C.75.05) 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 5 (C.75.
2 Announcements MPE/iX Release 7.5 PowerPatch 5 MPE/iX 7.5 PowerPatch 5 for the HP e3000 is scheduled for delivery in late July 2008. This proactive patch-set includes defect repairs to improve the capabilities and supportability of MPE/iX 7.5. The improvements it contains are intended to help customers maximize the value of HP e3000 environments as they manage their transitions off the HP e3000 platform. End of Support Dates While HP support for MPE/iX 6.0 ended October 31, 2002, MPE/iX releases 6.5, 7.
Announcements MPE/iX Beta Test Patches Listed On Web Site MPE/iX Beta Test Patches Listed On Web Site HP is making MPE/iX beta test patches available to our customers who may benefit from installing them before they are made generally available or "GR." A beta test or "BT" patch is thoroughly tested in the MPE/iX lab before release. However, it has not completed testing by the customer or customers for whom it was initially created.
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 How to Subscribe To subscribe to automatically receive future NEW HP Security Bulletins from the Hewlett-Packard Electronic Support Center via electronic mail, do the following (instructions subject to change without notice): 1. Use your browser to access the HP IT Resource Center web page at: http://itrc.hp.com US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America http://europe.itrc.hp.com Europe 2.
3 Technical Articles This chapter contains the following articles: • Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality • Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays • Support of the HP SureStore E Disk Arrays XP12000 and XP10000 • Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX • Predictive Changes SYSSTART during UPDATE • TurboIMAGE B-Tree Behavior Clarification 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 Data Communications 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.
Technical Articles Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality Migrating to Host-Based Management In order to ease the transition from the OVDTCMgr PC-Based solution to Host-Based management, the following features are available and these behaviors occur when your system is updated to the new host-based versions of the DTS subsystem. • Athough it is now an unsupported configuration, the OVDTCMgr platform still is able to manage the DTCs for connection to the HP e3000.
Technical Articles Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality The full instructions for installing this patch on the OVDTCMgr PC is contained in the READHD45 file. This tool runs on the PC and creates a text file that contains the NMMGR commands necessary to create an equivalent configuration in the NMCONFIG configuration file of the DTCs that are selected on the PC. The text file that is created is copied to the HP e3000 and read by NMMGR to make the configuration changes to the NMCONFIG file.
Technical Articles Enhanced Host-Based DTC Management Functionality 7. Validate the NMCONFIG file and perform any changes needed to resolve any configuration discrepancies that are found. 8. Use DTCCNTRL to perform a DTS Shutdown and Restart. More Information More information on the change to the DTS subsystem’s configuration in NMMGR is available in the updated Configuring and Managing Host-Based X.25 Links manual that is available online from: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/36939-90057/36939-90057.
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 Support of the HP SureStore E Disk Arrays XP12000 and XP10000 Support of the HP SureStore E Disk Arrays XP12000 and XP10000 by Dave Black, MPE/iX Expert Center and Jim Hawkins CSY Lab This article contains information on the support and configuration of the HP SureStore E Disk Arrays XP12000 and XP10000. These are part of the overall XP family of arrays. The XP12000 is the high-end part of the XP12000/XP10000 pair. The XP10000 is a smaller, repackaged version of the XP120000.
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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