HP-UX 11i Version 3 March 2012 Release Notes Operating Environments Update Release Abstract This document provides an overview of what is new, changed, deprecated, or obsoleted in the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments since the previous update release of HP-UX 11i v3. It also provides an overview of the changes in previous releases. This document is intended for system administrators responsible for managing HP-UX 11i v3.
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Table 2 Previous Documents in This Series (continued) Document Title and Edition Document Supported manufacturing part operating number systems Edition Publication date HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2008 Release Notes 5992-4174 HP-UX 11i v3 Edition 1 September 2008 HP-UX 11i Version 3 March 2008 Release Notes 5992-3373 HP-UX 11i v3 Edition 1 March 2008 HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2007 Release Notes 5992-3231 HP-UX 11i v3 Edition 3 September 2007 HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2007 Release
Contents 1 How to use this document............................................................................7 The purpose of the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes..................................................................7 Where you should begin...........................................................................................................7 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i version 3...............................................................
HP-UX 11i v3 Quality Pack Patch Bundles.................................................................................106 Summary of Change........................................................................................................106 Compatibility..................................................................................................................106 Performance....................................................................................................................
10 Libraries and programming....................................................................115 11 Internationalization................................................................................116 12 Other functionality................................................................................117 13 Support and other resources...................................................................118 Contacting HP.....................................................................................
1 How to use this document The purpose of the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes This document is part of a series. Each document in the series describes what is new, changed, deprecated, or obsoleted since the previous release of the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments. (In the case of the initial release HP-UX 11i v3 release in February 2007, the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes describes what has changed since the September 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v1 and the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2.
2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i version 3 HP-UX 11i v3 is an enterprise release delivering the highest level of integrated virtualization and automation. HP-UX 11i v3 dynamically reduces complexity and cuts deployment times to maximize return on investment. With the March 2008 release, HP began offering new HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments. The new Operating Environments, which offer a richer set of products, are available only for version 3 of HP-UX 11i.
Table 4 HP-UX 11i v3 OE descriptions HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environment Description HP-UX 11i v3 Base OE (BOE) Provides integrated HP-UX functionality for customers requiring less complex installations. The BOE contains all the applications included in the Foundation OE, and improves the bundle set by adding much-requested products such as HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) and APA. This OE is bundled as HPUX11i-BOE.
Table 5 HP-UX 11i v3 software installation types (continued) Installation Type Description CAUTION: HP recommends that you do not deselect recommended software bundles or remove them from your system unless you know for certain that the software contained in these bundles is not required for your operating environment. Software might have unstated dependencies. Deselecting software might prevent products with dependencies on the software you deselected from functioning correctly.
environments, plus selected non-HP servers that have a support obligation with HP. It is integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager. A dedicated server is recommended to host both HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Insight Remote Support Advanced. Details for both versions are available at http://www.hp.com/go/insightremotesupport To download the software, go to Software Depot: http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot Select Insight Remote Support from the menu on the right.
3 What is new This chapter provides a quick overview of what is new, changed, deprecated, or obsoleted in each HP-UX 11i v3 release.
What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release The following summaries provide a general picture of how the March 2012 release of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the September 2011 release of HP-UX 11i v3. For further information, see the indicated documents or the sections in the remainder of this document. March 2012 Release Notes, Hardware-specific information • CommonIO: Packages multiple products which support SAS and Fibre Channel adapters, and is always installed.
• ◦ PCIMUX-00: Version B.11.31.1203 delivers defect fixes. See HP AD278A and AD279A PCI Multiplexer Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (March 2012) at http://www.hp.com/go/ general-io-docs. ◦ RAID-01: Contains the ciss driver, which supports HP Smart Array controllers. Updated with quality and performance improvements. For further information, including the products supported by this bundle, see RAID-01 (ciss) B.11.31.1203 Mass Storage Driver Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/smart-array-raid-docs.
• HP Process Resource Manager (PRM): Updated to version C.03.06 to deliver defect fixes. PRMKernelSW and PRMLibraries updated to support PRM. See HP Process Resource Manager Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-PRM-docs. • New: HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Integrity Virtual Servers (SG IVS Toolkit): Facilitates seamless integration of HP Integrity Virtual Machines with HP Serviceguard.
• PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): Delivers defect fixes. See SysMgmtPlus Release Notes at http:// hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-sysmgmtplus-docs. • New: SCSI Persistent Reservation Utilities: Command utilities allow querying and changing Persistent Reservations and Registrations on a disk. Added as a recommended (default-installed) product in all OEs. See SCSI Persistent Reservation Utilities Release Notes at http:// www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs-11iv3.
◦ New: HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1 (bundles BB068AA and VirtualBase): Brings together vPars and Integrity VM functionality in a single, common easy-to-use management environment. Newly delivered in the VSE-OE and DC-OE. See “HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1” (page 108). NOTE: The bundles T2767CC, T8718AC, VMGuestSW, VMKernelSW, HostAVIOStor, and HostAvioLan have been moved to BB068AA. The bundles VMGuestLib, VMProvider, GuestAVIOStor, and GuestAvioLan have been moved to VirtualBase.
enabled. See the product website at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/ displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=FsSrp. • HP CIFS Server: Version A.03.01.03 is a defect fix release based on Samba 3.4.3. Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 operating systems. See HP CIFS Server Release Notes Version A.03.01.03 at http://www.hp.com/go/ hpux-networking-docs. (Select HP-UX Common Internet File System (CIFS) Client/Server Software.
March 2012 Release Notes, Security Unless otherwise noted, documents for the following security products are located at http:// www.hp.com/go/hpux-security-docs. Select the link appropriate for the product. • New: Restricted Root: Provides new security options that extend password and login policies to the root account. This shadow mode enhancement allows implementation of stricter security policies that were previously only available on trusted mode systems. See “Restricted Root” (page 112).
NOTE: • Firefox and Thunderbird are deprecated and are planned for future obsolescence. Perl: Equivalent to Open source 5.8.8 release functionality, including an enhancement and defect fixes. See Perl Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/perl. March 2012 Release Notes, Internationalization • There are no changes in March 2012 for the products or features that are normally documented in this section.
respective HP Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. Both documents are available at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs. • ◦ FibrChanl-02: Contains the driver fclp for use with Fibre Channel HBAs. Updated with quality improvements. Note: HP strongly recommends you update to the newest release of this product (currently available on the web), as it delivers an important fix. For more information, see FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes.
See HP Caliper for HP-UX Release Notes, Release 5.3 February 2011 at http://hp.com/go/ hpux-caliper-docs. 22 • HP Insight managed system setup wizard: Supports new hardware and supports upgrading from previous releases of the wizard. See Insight Managed System Setup Wizard 7.0 Getting Started Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/insightsoftware/docs.
• PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): Delivers defect fixes. See SysMgmtPlus Release Notes at http:// hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-sysmgmtplus-docs. • Software Distributor (SD): Updated to support HP-UX Containers (SRP). Two new options are introduced. • System Fault Management (SFM): Enhanced to provide common error messages for sfmconfig command. Evweb is enhanced to include slot-id for IOTreeIndicationProvider in event details and to support effective UIDs with root access for sudo-based systems.
• ◦ HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands: Includes Japanese localized manpages. ◦ Utilization Provider for HP-UX 11i v3: Updated to version A.01.08.06.01 to support the latest release of the Matrix Operating Environment (formerly HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity). WBEM Services and Providers Documents for the following WBEM products are located at http://hp.com/go/ hpux-networking-docs. (Select HP-UX 11i WBEM Software.) ◦ HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Version A.02.09.
Containers environment. See ONCplus B.11.31.12 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/ hpux-networking-docs. (Select HP-UX 11i v3 Networking Software.) • Symantec products For information on the following Symantec products, see Veritas File System 5.0.1 Release Notes and Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/ hpux-LVM-VxVM-docs.
• HP-UX Web Server Suite For information about the products in the HP-UX Web Server Suite, see HP-UX Apache-based Web Server v.3.17 Release Notes at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/ displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXWSATW317. • ◦ HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Primarily a defect fix and security release. ◦ HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Primarily a defect fix and security release. ◦ HP-UX Webmin-based Admin: Primarily a defect fix release.
expressions; smarter printing of function pointers; more intuitive leak reports; debugging with debug information available in the side debug file; support for mmapfile command See HP WDB 6.2 Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-debugtools-docs.
support from the Eaton Power Xpert Meters, and support for HP Integrity Superdome 2. See HP Insight Control Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs. (Note: The HP-UX 11i Version 3 March 2011 Release Notes, Edition 2 incorrectly stated that version 6.3 of this product was delivered in the March 2011 OEUR. The correct statement is that version 6.2 was delivered in the March 2011 OEUR.
◦ PCIMUX-00: Version B.11.31.1103 delivers defect fixes. See HP AD278A and AD279A PCI Multiplexer Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (March 2011) at http://www.hp.com/go/ general-io-docs. ◦ RAID-01: Contains the ciss driver, which supports HP Smart Array controllers. Updated with quality and performance improvements. For further information, including the products supported by this bundle, see RAID-01 (ciss) B.11.31.1012 Mass Storage Driver Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs.
11.00 includes the features of HP Performance Agent and HP GlancePlus. These products were formerly delivered in the GlancePlus Pak bundle, which is no longer included in the OEs and which will be removed upon update to the March 2011. HP Operations agent has been added as recommended (defaulted-installed) product on the HA-OE, DC-OE, and VSE-OE. See the HP Operations agent release notes at http://h20230.www2.hp.com/selfsolve/ manuals.
seeking the benefits of workload consolidation. HP-UX SRP A.02.02 offers various new features including SRP Manager, a GUI that configures and manages HP-UX SRPs. Added to all OEs as an optional (selectable) product. See HP-UX Secure Resource Partitions A.02.02 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-security-docs. (Select HP-UX Secure Resource Partitions Software.
• Online Diagnostics: Delivers defect fixes. See EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 Release and STM Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 Release at http:// hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs. Starting with HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009, OnlineDiag (including STM) is in support mode and is not supported on newer platforms. SysFaultMgmt is the default monitoring mode on both older and newer platforms. For more information, see http://hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Delivers fixes for internally found issues. • ONCplus: Delivers defect fixes. See ONCplus B.11.31.10 release notes at http://hp.com/ go/hpux-networking-docs. (Select HP-UX 11i v3 Networking Software.) March 2011 Release Notes, Internet and networking • HP-UX Auto Port Aggregation (APA): Delivers defect fixes. See HP Auto Port Aggregation (APA) Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
• HP-UX IPSec: Version A.03.00.01 enhances the ipsec_config add csr command to accept multiple values for each type of alternative name specified in the subjectAlternativeName field of a certificate. Without this enhancement, if IPSec is being used with the Secure Resource Partitions (SRP) product, then each SRP would have to use the same ID when authenticating. See HP-UX IPSec A.03.00.01 Release Notes at http:// www.hp.com/go/hpux-security-docs. (Select HP-UX IPSec Software.
March 2011 Release Notes, Internationalization • Chinese GB18030 Locale Method: Provides conversion support between multibyte file code and internal wide character process code for the Chinese zh_CN.gb18030 locale. • Iconv codeset conversion: New iconv converters are added to support the conversion of the eucJP2004 character set encoding to and from the SJIS2004 character set encoding, both of which are encodings that support the Japanese JIS X 0213:2004 character set standard.
• ◦ RAID-01: Contains the ciss driver. Updated with quality and performance improvements. For further information, including the products supported by this bundle, see RAID-01 (ciss) B.11.31.1009 Mass Storage Driver Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/ hpux-iocards-docs. ◦ SerialSCSI-00: Contains the sasd driver. Updated with quality and performance improvements. For further information, including the products supported by this bundle, see SerialSCSI-00 (sasd) B.11.31.
HostAvioStor driver. See HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes at http:// hp.com/go/virtualization-manuals. ◦ HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity (A.6.0.1): Provides defect fixes for the components Application Discovery, Capacity Advisor, HP Integrity VM Manager, and Logical server management. All other components updated only to incorporate packaging changes. See HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 Release Notes, February 2010, Edition 2 at http:// www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics-manuals.
11g R2, and high availability for databases and the application tier. See HP Serviceguard Extension for Oracle E-business Suite B.01.00 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/ hpux-serviceguard-docs. 38 • HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: IPv6 support is enabled. Also includes defect fixes. See Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.31.07 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/ hpux-serviceguard-docs. • New: HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle Data Guard B.01.
• PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): Displays HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) compatible overall systems status on HP SMH. Enhanced support for the following new and updated property pages in HP SMH (see hpsmh(1M)): Blade; Memory; Cell Blade. See SysMgmtPlus Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs. • ProviderSvcsBase: Health test command line enables -runtest and -runtest -a commands to support configurable options -loop, -timer, -log, -error and -stress.
◦ HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider: Not supported on HPVM guest OS. Indication provider supports System GUID and Network address properties. Includes defect fixes. As OnlineDiag is not supported on newer platforms, the dm_sas_adapter monitor used by SAS Indication provider on newer servers will be replaced by HPUXSASNativeIndicationProviderModule. See HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs. ◦ HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Not supported on HPVM guest OS. Includes defect fixes.
extensive enhancements for the HP-UX Apache-based Web Server. See HP-UX Apache-based Web Server v.3.08 Release Notes at the preceding website. • Service Location Protocol (SLP): Packaging updated. September 2010 Release Notes, Security • HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration (secweb): Includes fixes for internally found defects. • HP-UX Bastille: Provides new lockdown items for the CIS Benchmark 1.5, and more. See HP-UX Bastille Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-security-docs.
September 2010 Release Notes, Internationalization • There are no changes in September 2010 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter. September 2010 Release Notes, Other functionality • HP-UX Parallel Umounts (UmountallEnh): Updated to incorporate a defect fix. See the UmountallEnh webpage at http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/ displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=UmountallEnh.
◦ RAID-01: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements. • HP Instant Capacity: Version B.11.31.09.03.00 delivers defect fixes. • The iCAP Manager: Version A.6.0.0. provides additional detail in the core-activation wizard messages, in addition to fixes for internally found defects.
– HP Insight Virtualization Manager – Virtual Server Environment Configuration Assistant (vseassist) – HP Global Workload Manager Agent LTU – HP Virtualization Manager for HP-UX LTU – HP Capacity Advisor for HP-UX LTU – HP VSE Suite for HP-UX 11i LTU ◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM): Version 4.
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager (pdweb): Delivers defect fixes. • HP-UX Software Assistant: HTML report identifies patches included as dependencies. Improved integration with HP SIM. • Ignite-UX: Update includes cold install and recovery support for LVM 2.2 data and boot disks; ability to deploy HP-UX clients from HP Insight Orchestrator; improved instance number remapping for IO devices; and more.
March 2010 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and file management” • HP-UX Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Delivers defect fixes and new features: the ability to create a root VG of disk layout version 2.2, as well as the ability to rebalance allocated extents for free space. • MemFS: Delivers defect fixes. • ONCplus: Delivers defect fixes and new features: The NFS mount structure nfs_args is made public and asynchronous NFS Direct I/O performance is improved.
• HP-UX Software Assistant: Improved integration with HP SIM. • OpenSSL: Delivers defect fixes. • Kerberos Client: Version E.1.6.2.05 provides thread safety for Kerberos libraries; new client commands for copying and deleting service tickets; new functions that are needed for NFSv4; ability to load extension modules at run-time; and more.
September 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 2: “Introduction to HP-UX 11i version 3” • Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v3 Core Enhancements): New products (ISOIMAGE-ENH and RCEnhancement) are available in the Operating Environments as optional products. • HP's Green Business Technology Initiative: Previously printed books will now be delivered electronically. Additionally, documentation at http://docs.hp.com will be migrated to the BSC.
Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA), allowing vPars users improved performance, power minimization and management enhancements, Internationalization improvements, and many other enhancements. Japanese manpage patches added. • HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment ◦ Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. ◦ Application Discovery agent (AppDiscAgent): Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for September 2009. • New:: RC Enhancement (boot time improvement in HP-UX commands and rc scripts): By installing specific products, you may see improved boot time. • Software Distributor: IPv6 support is enabled along with defect fixes. • Software Package Builder: Enhanced to enforce HP-UX Packaging Policy Rules related to requisites.
September 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security” • HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration (secweb): Provides capability to modify and delete custom events that are set for auditing. • HP-UX Auditing System Extensions: Provides two features: Audit Filtering Tools and Audit Reporting Tools. Includes defect fixes. • HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System: Version 4.3 includes only defect fixes. • HP-UX IPSec: Version A.03.
September 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other functionality” • New: Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA): A framework for delivering ease-of-use and improved performance on HP servers with Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA). Delivered through patches in the FEATURE11i bundle on all OEs. What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 release The following summaries provide a general picture of how the March 2009 release of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the September 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3.
• ◦ SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ USB-00; Version D.11.31.0903 bundle enables the new USB 2.0 support. Utility Pricing Solutions ◦ HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.31.09.01.00. Provides more versatility in configuring GiCAP groups (with IPV6) and more functionality with gWLM and iCAP Manager; and defect fixes.
◦ HP Process Resource Manager: With version C.03.05, you can now have PRM use the real user ID for placing processes based on user records. ◦ HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Management Software: In version 4.1 (A.04.01.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. • HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager (pdweb): Offers additional diagnostics features for Fibre Channel (FC) adapters. • HP-UX Software Assistant: Updated to version C.02.11. Now allows you to select the analyzers to be used when generating reports within HP SIM and now supports Java™ SE6. And more. • iCAP Manager: Updated to provide configuration capabilities for Instant Capacity on a single system.
• Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Updated to reflect defect fixes. There are no new features or functionality in update-ux. • WBEM Services and Providers ◦ HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.07.04, which is a minor update to the HP WBEM Services A.02.07 that is already released with HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2 and 11i v3.
• • HP-UX Web Server Suite ◦ HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Updated to v.2.0.59.08 as primarily a security/bug fix release. ◦ HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Updated to v.5.5.27.02. Implements the Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0 specifications. Internet Services ◦ HP-UX Mail Server (Sendmail): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. ◦ HPUX-Nameserver (BIND): Support for RFC 4193 (Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses).
• mediainit(1) Command: New option, -S, scrubs the disk media content with a set of patterns so that retrieval of its content becomes more difficult. • New: PAX-ENH: With this enhancement, the pax(1) command supports backup of ACLs and usage of graph files. Software Pack product. March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming” • Java 2 Standard Edition Platform ◦ JDK/JRE 6.0 (including add-on) updated to version 6.0.02 for defect and security bulletin fixes.
2008 OEUR, several new products and features have been added. See the remainder of this section for summaries of the new products and features. • Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v3 Core Enhancements): Several new and updated Software Pack products are available in the Operating Environments as optional products.
• Mass Storage Stack: Includes defect fixes and usability enhancements to enhance the system's availability and ease-of-use. • Utility Pricing Solutions ◦ HP Instant Capacity: Includes the ability to create a standby Group Manager to be available for use as an active Group Manager if the current Group Manager is unavailable. Improvements in iCAP and GiCAP logging. And more.
◦ HP Integrity VM Guest Support Libraries (VMGuestLib): Includes support for the new features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.0, which supports the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system as a VM Host. ◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VMProvider): Supports the new features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.0, including support for the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system as a VM Host.
• NGROUPS Expansion: Allows users and processes to have group-level permissions based on a larger number of groups than the previous fixed limit. • Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed. Is automatically selected for updates. During the update process selected obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers are removed. • Online Diagnostics: Supports updated to support new and future HBAs.
• HP-UX Disks and File Systems: Additional LVM functions are possible, a paging device can be deleted without having to reboot the system, and the NFS automounter and AutoFS functions can be performed. • ONCplus: Updated to version B.11.31.04. Delivers full NFSv4 functionality. Also delivers IPv6 support for the on, rpc.rexd, rpc.rwalld, rpc.rusersd, rusers, and rwall commands and daemons. In addition, performance has been optimized in several areas of NFS. • New: OnlineJFS 5.
September 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls” • getaddrinfo(3N) Function: Modified to support Destination Address Selection algorithm defined in RFC 3484. • ioinit(1M) Command: New option -A invokes Critical Resource Analysis and generates usage report, before modifying existing instance number of an IO node. • ioscan(1M) Command: -P option of the command has been enhanced to accept new properties.
new PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files to support additional HP PostScript printers; illegal command line options will now be listed in the banner page; and more. • New and Updated Asian Iconv Converters: Several Asian character sets now have iconv conversion support added to convert data directly from these character sets to and from various transformation formats of Unicode such as UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.
◦ FibrChanl-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. ◦ New: FibrChanl-02: First release on HP-UX 11i v3: recommended product on all OEs. Driver for the Fibre Channel HBAs. ◦ GigEther-01: Change history is located at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs. ◦ IB4X-00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. ◦ IEther-00: Change history is located at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs. ◦ RAID-01: Updated with quality improvements. ◦ scsiU320-00: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ New: HP Process Resource Manager: Newly delivered as a recommended product in the BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE. ◦ New: HP Virtual Server Environment: Integrates with HP SIM to provide intelligent control of your virtualized environment from one location.
• New: NUMA policy is a tunable and a set of related kernel enhancements that exploit the localities within platforms having a Non-Uniform Memory Architecture. This contrasts with the default symmetric policy that treats all platform resources equally. • Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers, including TechSysConf.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management” • ONCplus: Updated to B.11.31.02. Provides defect fixes and new features, including full NIS 2.3 client functionality (with the exception of password.adjunct support); full CacheFS 2.3 functionality; optimized performance in several areas of NFS; and more. Note: ONC fixes were delivered in patches prior to HP-UX 11i v3. March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and Networking” • Firefox, FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.4.
• HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.70.023. The sshd daemon defaults to SSH Protocol 2 in new installations; SSH channel window size has been increased; ssh command and sshd daemon now preserve MAC contexts between packets; new MAC algorithm has been added; and more. • HP-UX Software Assistant: Has replaced Security Patch Check. Messages indicating the deprecation of Security Patch Check will be displayed when the Security Patch Check tool is invoked.
• New: Kernel Access Infrastructure: HP-UX Virtual Memory provides a new set of APIs to map user virtual addresses into the kernel. Useful as a copy avoidance solution where user data can be accessed and modified by kernel contexts, avoiding the copying in and out of data when system calls are invoked. • New: libc Enhancement: Contains a new API called memsetU16(3C), which can be used for memory operations to set area in memory to contain 2-byte word. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.
◦ – 100BT (btlan): DLKM-enabled. – Ultra160 SCSI (c8xx): Driver is DLKM-enabled, but not all modules in patch are DLKM compliant. Optional Networking Drivers – ◦ • InfiniBand Clustering System: Supports additional PCIe cards; DLKM-enabled. Required Mass Storage Drivers – CommonIO bundle: Support for additional FC HBAs; delivers SAS-COMMON, which contains utilities for managing specific SAS HBAs; delivers FC-COMMON, which contains utilities for managing specific FC HBAs.
• HP Serviceguard: New package-creation process and enhanced support for package dependencies and multi-node packages; additional support for cluster parameters, APA and VLAN, Integrity VM (HPVM), and more. • Ignite-UX: Supports new hardware for 11i v3, plus other changes. • Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. • Software Utilities: • • • ◦ Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. ◦ Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• ◦ HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Defect fixes. ◦ New: Printer Management tool: A new Web-based printer management tool available on the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH). WBEM Services and Providers: ◦ HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Defect fixes. ◦ HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Supports Consolidated Status Provider and Indication Provider features. ◦ New: HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider: Supports Indication Provider for hot-swappable PCI slots.
• • Web Browsers ◦ New: Firefox and Firefox Source: Web browser sets a new standard for internet browsing by providing an easier and more personal way to use the Internet. ◦ New: GTK and GTK Source: Open-source windowing toolkit used by Firefox and Thunderbird. ◦ New: Thunderbird and Thunderbird Source: Email application provides convenient, customizable, rich-featured email access. Web Servers: ◦ New: HP-UX NSA HTTP: Updated to version B.11.31.01.02; enables NSA (Network Server Accelerator).
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization” • There are no changes in September 2007 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter. September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality” • There are no changes in September 2007 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
• I/O Subsystem: Several new I/O commands help manage the I/O subsystem, and existing commands have new options and functionality to support the next generation mass storage stack. • New: The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack manages I/O devices, such as SCSI logical units (LUNs). In this release, the mass storage stack delivers functionality designed to enhance server scalability, adaptability, and performance while retaining backward compatibility.
• Daylight Savings Time (DST). Changes for US DST rules. • New: Detect and Strobe: Core-kernel functionality used to limit the amount of time spent in servicing interrupts to a user-defined maximum. Note: Detect and Strobe was previously delivered as patch for HP-UX 11i v1. • New: Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a web-based GUI and TUI for File System and Disks system administration tasks.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version A.01.10.01. Provides the new HP-UX WLM SAP Toolkit, which identifies SAP processes based on user-defined criteria and uses WLM’s process maps feature to place the SAP processes in specific workload groups. PPUTK obsoleted; SASTK and DMTK deprecated. ◦ Partition Manager: Updated to v2.0 (version B.31.02.03.01) with the ability to enable and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have processors that are Hyper-Threading capable.
indicates maximum kernel memory to be used for messages waiting to be received. Tunables msgmni, msgtql are made dynamic. 80 • New: HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Client applications can use this provider to get information about HP-UX Fibre Channel HBAs on the system. • New: HP-UX WBEM File System Provider: Makes available file system information; instruments the HPUX_HFS, HP_LOFS, HP_CDFS, HP_VxFS, HP_NFS, HP_MountPoint and HPUX_Mount classes.
• System Administration Manager (SAM) Auditing and Security Functional Area: System Security Policies subarea of SAM is replaced with the HP--UX Security Attributes Configuration tool; Audited NIS+ Users subarea is obsolete. • System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters Functional Area: Launch point in X/ObAM-based GUI mode is now via the HP System Management Homepage.
◦ Network File System (NFS) Services: Provides numerous enhancements, including pcnfsd daemon, which is multithreaded and supports shadow password and Secure RPC; new user mode daemon generates and validates API security tokens, and maps the GSSAPI principal names to the local user and group IDs; additional security mechanisms, such as Secure NFS that supports Kerberos through GSSAPI; NFS access using a firewall; and many other features.
• Internet Services: You can now deselect individual Internet Services during installation or remove filesets later. • BIND: BIND 9.3 includes many new features, including transition support for IPv4 and IPv6. With HP-UX 11i v3, NAMED and NAMED ARGS variables are moved to /etc/rc.config.d/ namesvrs. • DHCPv4 (bootpd): New option sa configures the tftp server, providing control of the siaddr field of the dhcp packet.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security” 84 • New: HP-UX 11i Security Containment: Provides compartments, which isolate unrelated resources on a system to prevent catastrophic system damage if one compartment is penetrated. When configured in a compartment, an application (processes, binaries, data files and communication channels used) has restricted access to resources outside its compartment.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and System Calls” • /etc/skel/.profile shell script: . (current path) in $PATH is deprecated • 32-bit pstat System Call (Deprecated): When compiling a 32-bit application that uses the pstat () system call, the compiler option -D_PSTAT64 must now be specified. This causes pstat () to use 64-bit fields rather than 32-bit fields. The application still remains a 32-bit application.
• New: pselect() System Call: Added to meet the UNIX 2003 Standard. Provides additional parameter options to users of the select() system call. Timeout granularity may be specified in seconds and nanoseconds. A new signal mask parameter is also available to be used for the duration of system call. • psrset Command: Enhanced to manage the Real Time Extension processor set; enhanced to support one more PSET attribute type called LCPU.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries and Programming” • Bundled C Compiler: Updated to version A.06.12 on Itanium®-based servers and B.11.11.16 on PA-RISC. Highly compatible with previous versions; diagnostic messages have changed; more erroneous and suspicious source constructs are diagnosed.
• Link Editor (ld): Additional options and other changes since patch PHSS_32864, September 2005. • New: Mercury Library (libhg): Provides high performance interfaces between the user programs and the kernel making it possible to transfer key pieces of information back and forth at high speeds. • Software Transition Kit (STK): Designed to help transition HP-UX applications from earlier versions of HP-UX to the latest version of HP-UX. Will not be available for HP-UX 11i v3.
• Asian Bitmap Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO 10646. • Fallback Font Support: For text-based GUI applications, in the event there are no glyphs, the application will display “?” or “::” characters. • Asian Functionality (Obsoleted and Deprecated): Several legacy functions are obsolete and have been removed. Also, certain Asian printer lp models, utility/library routines, and dot bitmap fonts have been deprecated.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers ◦ Gigabit Ethernet: The igelan, gelan and btlan products are enhanced with new features, including online deletion (OLD) and module packaging. ◦ HyprFabrc-00: Supports only Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) HF2 cards. HF1 Cards will not be supported.
• New: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Includes an interface expansion, providing long username and long hostnames. • New: Enhanced User Core File Naming: New command, coreadm, introduced to uniquely name application core files created by abnormally terminating user processes. • Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Includes support for VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.17 environment, support for Serviceguard 11.17.
◦ New: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) that records system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval; data recorded includes CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization; also includes a WBEM provider for access to the data. ◦ vPar Provider: WBEM provider displays information about virtual partitions. Read-only; clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations with it. • HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17.
• HP-UX WBEM IOTree Provider: Now displays information about all slots on HP-UX 11i v3 system. • New: HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider: Not currently supported; intended to support features in future releases of HP-UX 11i v3. • HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.31.01, but no new feature changes. • Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.0.
system component health, and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs). • System Fault Management: Features include Event Manager-Common Information Model Provider and Error Management Technology. SFMIndicationProvider and Log Viewer not available; other changes included.
◦ Network Information Service (NIS): Provides several new features including support for shadow mode; support for enabling DNS forwarding mode; support for long uname, hostname, and username; and other features. ◦ NIS+: Obsoleted. ◦ PCNFSD: pcnfsd daemon is multithreaded. Support for shadow password and secure RPC; support for printer names up to the PCNFSD protocol limitation of 64 characters. • New: Unified File Cache: Integrates the page cache and buffer cache to provide coherency for file access.
• inetd(1): Two new command line options, -p (limit number of processes invoked by inetd) and -a (enable user level auditing pf processes). Support for large hostnames and large PIDs. • libc: Numerous changes in APIs. • Mailx, Elm, and Talk: elm(1M) and mailx(1M) are long-user-name compliant. • R-commands: long username is supported. • Sendmail: Version 8.13.3 has numerous new features. • TFTP: tftpd™ (server) and tftp™ (client) now support IPv6 addresses.
(authentication, integrity, confidentiality) over IP networks between systems and devices that implement the IPsec protocol suite. • HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.40.005 with new features including an sftp only solution in a chroot environment; TCP wrappers support for IPv6; Standard Mode Security Extensions (SMSE) enhanced to provide the “Audit all users and events” feature; and other features, as well as defect fixes.
kctune now allows some tunable values to be specified in terms of the percentage of some system resource; changes have been made to the kernel configuration commands to improve resiliency and performance; tunable parameter values may now be overridden on the boot loader command line; and several other changes, including some obsolescences. 98 • iostat Command: Enhanced to report activity for each active lunpath to the LUNs. Also, the new option -L has been added, which lists active lunpath statistics.
• swapon and swapinfo Commands: swapon command enhanced to support setting/unsetting of primary swap device for next boot; swapinfo command supports new -s option to display settings of the primary swap for next boot. • sysdef Command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable parameters such as msgmap, sema, and shmem. • syslogd Command: Enhanced to log multibyte message strings correctly. • usermod has been modified to selectively prevent the movement of home directories with -m option.
information. The library will reduce the dependency on other HP-UX commands for I/O information. • libpthread Library: Added new API, pthread_setschedprio(), to set scheduling priority of target thread. • Link Editor (ld): Additional linker options introduced since patch PHSS_34440, June 2006, and other changes. • Mercury Library (libhg): Provides high performance interfaces between the user programs and the kernel making it possible to transfer key pieces of information back and forth at high speeds.
• New: Internationalized PostScript Printing Support: psfontpf: New PostScript printer filter psfontpf enables printing of non-English international characters in text files and web pages. • Asian Printing: Asian lpmodel files and filters have been enhanced to support important Asian national standards and ISO 10646.
4 Hardware-specific information This chapter provides information regarding supported systems, as well as other information about software that is hardware related. For other changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release” (page 13).
require an HP Passport Login. See the FAQs at http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/ GetPDF.aspx/c02761338.pdf. • • Documents ◦ Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems (http://hp.com/go/ patchmgmt-docs) ◦ HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide (http://www.hp.com/go/ hpux-core-docs-11iv3) Other ◦ The patch bundle readme document can be found on the OE media under the root directory (/HPEnable11i.readme and /HWEnable11i.readme.html) or at the HPSC (http://hp.com/go/hpsc).
• HP Integrity cx26xx Servers http://www.hp.com/go/integrity_cx2620_servers-docs • HP Integrity Servers http://www.hp.com/go/Integrity_Servers-docs • HP Proliant Servers http://www.hp.com/go/proliant_servers-docs Receiving firmware alerts To automatically receive email notices for the latest firmware updates, sign up for Driver, Patch, Security and Support alerts: 1. Go to http://www.hp.com/go/myhpalerts. 2. Follow the instructions to register each of your products.
5 General system administration This chapter presents information of particular interest to system administrators. For other changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release” (page 13). HP-UX 11i v3 Feature Enablement Patch Bundle The HP-UX 11i v3 Feature Enablement (FEATURE11i) patch bundle consists of patches that enhance core features or are required to meet dependencies for new or updated software products.
HP-UX 11i v3 Quality Pack Patch Bundles The Quality Pack consists of two patch bundles: the Base Quality Pack bundle and the Applications Quality Pack bundle. The Base Quality Pack bundle (QPKBASE) includes all stable, defect-fix patches for the Core OS, graphics, and key networking drivers. The Applications Quality Pack bundle (QPKAPPS) includes all stable, defect-fix patches for HP-UX Operating Environment (OE) applications.
Summary of Change This release of SD includes the following new features: • Support for SoftReboot for install and remove. This helps reduce reboot time and provides the flexibility to use normal reboot or softreboot. • Support for parallel installation/removal/configuration on local containers, applicable only on HP-UX Containers (SRP) enabled systems. Parallel mode is now the default on HP-UX Containers. • The following the new options: ◦ The -S option supports SoftReboot.
Virtualization continuum HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1 HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1 (bundles BB068AA and VirtualBase) is a new product that brings together vPars and Integrity VM functionality in a single, common easy-to-use management environment. This product is a follow-on to HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) v6.0 and Integrity VM v4.3. The single SMH-launched GUI consolidates and simplifies management functions, and HP-UX GUID Manager can ensure NPIV storage access remains secure.
Utilization Provider The Utilization Provider version A.01.08.06.02 is a lightweight daemon (utild) that records system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval. The HP Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX (formerly HP Insight Dynamics -- VSE for Integrity) uses the Utilization Provider to collect data from HP-UX managed systems. Data collected includes CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization. This product also includes a WBEM provider.
6 Disk and file management This chapter provides information on directory, file system, and disk management. For changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release” (page 13).
7 Internet and networking This chapter describes new and changed Internet and networking functionality supported by the HP-UX 11i v3 release. For changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release” (page 13).
8 Security This chapter covers changes and enhancements to security services. For changes to other products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release” (page 13). Restricted Root New security options are available extending password and login policies to the root account. This shadow mode enhancement allows implementation of stricter security policies that were previously only available on trusted mode systems.
9 Commands and system calls This chapter provides information about new and changed commands and system calls. For changes to other products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release” (page 13). insf(1M) command The insf command installs special files in the devices directory, normally /dev. If required, insf creates any subdirectories that are defined for the resulting special file.
Documentation • Manpages ◦ machinfo(1) Obsolescence Not applicable.
10 Libraries and programming This chapter covers a variety of changes of particular interest to programmers, such as changes to compilers, editors, and libraries. For changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release” (page 13).
11 Internationalization This chapter describes changes internationalization functionality, including text fonts and converters relating to various international languages. There are no changes in March 2012 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
12 Other functionality This chapter covers additional applications or functionality in the Operating Environments. There are no changes in March 2012 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
13 Support and other resources Contacting HP Before you contact HP Be sure to have the following information available before you call contact HP: • Technical support registration number (if applicable) • Product serial number • Product model name and number • Product identification number • Applicable error message • Add-on boards or hardware • Third-party hardware or software • Operating system type and revision level HP contact information For the name of the nearest HP authorized reselle
Websites for HP-UX 11i v3 information • HP-UX 11i v3 Core Documentation http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs • HP-UX Software Deployment Documentation http://hp.com/go/sw-deployment-docs • QuickSpecs: HP-UX 11i v3 http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12079_div/12079_div.PDF • HP-UX Server Support Matrix http://www.hp.com/go/hpuxservermatrix • HP_UX_Docs Twitter account http://www.twitter.
• HP Software Depot http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot • HP Support Center NOTE: The HP IT Resources Center (http://itrc.hp.com) portal has been retired and was migrated to the HP Support Center (http://hp.com/go/hpsc) in June 2011. You can find the latest patch status information on the HP Support Center website. To access the HP Support Center, you will require an HP Passport Login. See the FAQs at http://h20195.www2.hp.com/ V2/GetPDF.aspx/c02761338.pdf. • HP Software Releases and Media http://www.hp.
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