HP-UX 11i v3 Read Before Installing or Updating March 2009 HP Part Number: 5992-5814 Published: March 2009
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Table of Contents Welcome to HP-UX 11i v3.........................................................7 Media Kit Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Original HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 New HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Use Subscriber’s Choice for Latest Firmware Updates. . .
What to Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 After DRD Update is Performed on a Clone, You May See Errors During swverify. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 What to Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
vxconfigd May Dump Core after Cold-Installing HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 and VxVM 4.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 What to Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Missing Manpage for pstatectl Command in PHCO_38669. . . . . . . . . . . 33 What to Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Welcome to HP-UX 11i v3 HP-UX 11i v3 delivers the highest level of integrated virtualization and automation. HP-UX 11i v3 dynamically reduces complexity and cuts deployment times to maximize return on investment. This DVD booklet provides the following information: • Contents of the HP-UX 11i v3 media kit. • Descriptions of the Operating System and Operating Environments. • New products included in this release. See the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes (http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iv3) for details.
Media Kit Contents This guide is part of the HP-UX 11i v3 media kit, which includes the following DVDs and documents: • HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) DVD (2-DVD set) — Contains the HP-UX Operating System (OS), Operating Environments (OEs), required networking software, Update-UX, Ignite-UX, and online diagnostics. • HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) Application DVD — Contains HP-UX application software. • HP-UX 11i v3 Instant Information DVD — Contains HP-UX manuals, release notes, and white papers.
installation instructions and post-installation steps that are required to configure the VSEMgmt package after installation from the OE. Please review this document before installing the optional VSEMgmt package in the OE. This document is also available at http://docs.hp.com/en/T8671-90045/ For more information about the VSEMgmt package in the OE, see the HP-UX 11i Version 3 March 2009 Release Notes (http://docs.hp.com/en/ oshpux11iv3).
Original HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments The March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3 was the last full Operating Environments Update Release (OEUR) provided for original HP-UX 11i Operating Environments (OEs). Although the end of sale for HP-UX 11i v3 media of original OEs (March 2008 release) was October 30th 2008, you may still continue to purchase licenses for these products.
Table 1 New HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments New OE Description Base OE (BOE) Provides integrated HP-UX functionality for cost-conscious customers. The BOE contains all the applications included in the Foundation OE, and improves the bundle set by adding much-requested products such as Process Resource Manager (PRM), APA, as well as math libraries and graphics for technical computing applications. This OE is bundled as HPUX11i-BOE.
Table 1 New HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments (continued) New OE Description High Availability For customers requiring high availability for large OE (HA-OE) mission-critical applications, this OE contains all the products included in the BOE (and the original EOE), plus applications such as HP Serviceguard and HA toolkits required to enable a mission-critical server. This OE is bundled as HPUX11i-HA-OE.
Use Subscriber’s Choice for Latest Firmware Updates HP recommends that you sign-up for Subscriber’s Choice so you can automatically receive email notices for the latest firmware updates. Make sure you register all your products to receive the appropriate firmware update notices. Go to the IT Resource Center (http://itrc.hp.com), click More maintenance and support options, then click Subscribe to proactive notifications and security bulletins.
HP-UX Virtual Partitions Not Compatible with HP Integrity Virtual Machines HP-UX Virtual Partitions is not compatible with HP Integrity Virtual Machines. The vPars and Virtual Machines products cannot be installed on the same nPartition or the same virtual partition. HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM, hpvm) cannot be installed on a system that has HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) software installed. There is a check during Virtual Machines installation preventing it.
What’s New in This Release This section provides a quick overview (in Table 2) of what is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 release. For a list of the associated bundle tags, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2009. For further information on these products and features, see the HP-UX 11i Version 3 March 2009 Release Notes. Both documents can be found at http://docs.hp.
Table 2 New Products and Features in HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 16 New Product Description Dynamic P-States Feature Adds the ability to control processor performance from within HP-UX, allowing systems to conserve power when not fully loaded. Requires Intel® Itanium® 9100 series or later processors. HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Enables managers to view and manipulate Integrity VM resources on VM Hosts running HP-UX 11.31. VM Manager supports HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.
Table 2 New Products and Features in HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 (continued) New Product Description PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus) Enhances the property pages of HP SMH by adding additional details and introducing dynamic capability to the web page. Newly added as a required (always-installed) product in all OEs. ProviderSvcsBase Provides a new logging daemon that reads error log records from the HP-UX kernel and stores them in the circular log files, which can be read by user space processes.
Table 2 New Products and Features in HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 (continued) 18 New Product Description HP-UX Password Hash Infrastructure for HP-UX 11i v3 Enhances the security on HP-UX 11i v3. Provides a new, SHA512-based algorithm for user password hashes as an alternative to the traditional, DES-based password hash algorithm. Only available on systems with shadowed passwords. Software Pack product, optionally installed.
Table 2 New Products and Features in HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 (continued) New Product Description Libc Enhancement Contains new APIs to get instantaneous thread time consumption statistics for bound threads. HP-UX Parallel Umounts (UmountallEnh) A multi-threaded umountall feature that unmounts all or selected filesystems in parallel. Software Pack product, optionally installed.
Known Problems This section contains critical, late-breaking information that was not included in the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide. Before cold-installing or updating to HP-UX 11i v3, make sure you read this entire section as well as “Appendix A, Known Problems and Troubleshooting,” in the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide. For information and patches for other known problems, go to the HP IT Resource Center (ITRC) website: http://itrc.hp.
1. 2. A read error while reading filesets from the OE media, with a “Bad Address (14)” wording in the error message. Installing PHKL_39114 will fix the read error. The update may hang while installing the filesets from the March 2009 OE media. Installing PHKL_39114 will not fix this critical problem.
1. Verify the BPS value by executing the command: # kctune base_pagesize Tunable Value base_pagesize 64 2. Expression 64 Change the BPS value to 4K with the command: # kctune base_pagesize=4 3. 4. 5. Reboot your system, and verify the 4K BPS value as in Step 1. Update the system with the OE media by completing all Update-UX steps. After your system has updated and rebooted, set the BPS to the original value: # kctune base_pagesize=64 6.
For the latest information on this issue, including the updated recovery instructions, see CR QXCR1000868519 and QXCR1000907205. Go to the IT Resource Center (http://itrc.hp.com), click Search knowledge base, then select Search by document ID for your search mode. Enter "ttr_na-SSB_1000868519” or "ttr_na-SSB_1000907205” in the box. Harmless Messages Logged to rc.
calculations for /opt being approximately 300MB too low when updating to DC-OE. What to Do If, after you have tried the update, it has been prevented due to insufficient disk space in /opt, do the following: Resize the /opt logical volume with at least 300MB more space than update-ux indicated is necessary. Then proceed with the update.
are the patches PHKL_38623, PHKL_38733, PHKL_38715, and PHKL_38762. These patches are contained in the March 2009 FEATURE11i bundle. * Installing fileset "PHKL_nnnnn.C-INC,r=1.0" (nnn of nnn). ERROR: Cannot read from the file "/var/adm/sw/products/ProgSupport/C-INC/INFO": No such file or directory (2). ERROR: Rebuilding the Installed Products Database has failed. You may need to retry this operation. Due to header files missing from the ProgSupport.C-INC fileset, a compile of C source code will fail.
3. ProgSupport.C-INC fileset. This will remove any remaining patches that apply to this fileset, and will clean up any IPD problems with it. Then, still using that combined depot, install the patches you previously removed. The ProgSupport.C-INC fileset must be specified here, and the reinstall option must be false, so ProgSupport.C-INC is selected but then skipped during the actual install. This will also install other patches that apply to the ProgSupport.C-INC fileset.
After DRD Update is Performed on a Clone, You May See Errors During swverify Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) now supports doing updates from an earlier version of HP-UX 11i v3 to the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 release on the clone while the active system is up and running. You can run this on a stand-alone machine, on virtual machines (VM), or on nPars. After the DRD update is performed on the clone, you may boot from the clone disk and run a swverify \* to ensure the software was updated correctly.
drd runcmd view /var/opt/swm/swm.log The view program is identical to vi except that the “read-only” editor option is set. You are able to search the document and when you’re done, you can exit the editor program.
• • Disks → Select a disk → Move Physical Volume Logical Volumes → Select a logical volume → Select the Physical Volumes tab from the detailed view of the logical volume This problem is visible only: • when the Disks and File Systems tool is installed from the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 media • on PA-RISC platforms The failure of the operations listed above do not cause any problems to the existing volume groups, logical volumes, or physical volumes. What to Do No workaround currently exists.
The VSEMgmt bundle is intended to be installed in a Central Management Server (CMS) while the VMMGR+HPVM bundles are intended to be installed in a managed node. What to Do Do not install the VSEMgmt bundle at the same time you install the VMMGR plus HPVM bundles.
What to Do You can safely ignore this message. It is harmless; it does not indicate a problem with the installation. FEATURE11i Patch Documentation May Contain References to Delayed Patch PHCO_38658 Some patch documentation in the FEATURE11i patch bundle may contain references to the PHCO_38658 patch. However, PHCO_38658 is not included in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 release. What to Do The PHCO_38658 patch is not available in, or is needed for, the March 2009 OEUR.
be able to use Secure Shell with the PAM modules, including pam_krb, pam_ldap, pam_audit, and so on. You will not be affected by this if: • you have modified your sshd_config files in the past • you install Secure Shell from the web What to Do To be able to use PAM with HP-UX Secure Shell, edit /opt/ssh/etc/ sshd_config and change the line “UsePAM no” to “UsePAM yes”. To have sshd re-read the config file, enter the following at the command prompt: :kill -s SIGHUP $(
vxconfigd May Dump Core after Cold-Installing HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 and VxVM 4.1 Cold-installing HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 and VxVM 4.1 may lead to a core dump from vxconfigd. This issue generally happens when duplicate VxVM dm records are found in the config copies, or if there is a difference in the on-disk config copies. What to Do No workaround currently exists. HP and Symantec are investigating possible solutions.
Harmless Error Messages Logged to syslog after Install of Serviceguard After Serviceguard has been installed as part of an Operating Environment (OE) or separately, the Serviceguard cmproxyd and cmwbemd daemons log “Permission denied to 127.0.0.1” messages to /var/adm/syslog/ syslog.log. For example: Jan 21 07:33:02 run1 cmproxyd[1577]: Permission denied to 127.0.0.1 Jan 21 07:33:41 run1 cmwbemd[1710]: Permission denied to 127.0.0.
Web Resources For additional help when cold-installing or updating HP-UX 11i v3 and related products, go to the web: • HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html#Installing%20and%20Updating • HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes (select the document appropriate for your release) http://www.docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html#Release%20Notes • HP-UX 11i v3 Read Before Installing or Updating (this document on the web) http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.
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