HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

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.
• 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.01.00: Ensures high availability for
Data Guard processes, provides disaster protection and recovery for Oracle databases and
the applications that use these databases. Newly added to the High Availability and Data
Center OEs. Includes support for HP Serviceguard A.11.19 and A.11.20, Single instance
and Oracle RAC databases, Data Guard in Continentalclusters and Metrocluster environments,
and Oracle 11g R2. See HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle Data Guard B.01.00 Release
Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs.
• HP System Management Homepage: Version 3.2.1 works with both Apache 2.0 and Apache
2.2. Includes fixes for customer-reported problems and internally found issues. See HP System
Management Homepage 3.2.1 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs.
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Version 6.0 introduces a series of exciting enhancements.
Scalability which allows manageability up to 10,000 systems (up to 5,000 servers, with
additional 5,000 management processors, VMS, and so on) when using Windows 64-bit.
Enhanced reporting including tables and graphs for easier access to Systems Insight Manager
data; migration tool to transfers settings from a SIM 5.3x CMS to a SIM 6.0 CMS; a firmware
update that integrates with HP Smart Update Manager and provides agentless firmware
upgrade for management processor and Onboard Administrator. For the complete list of what
is new, see the HP Systems Insight Manager Readme at the HP SIM 6.x Information
library:http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.
• HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb): Includes fixes for internally found defects.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb): Includes fixes for a customer-reported problem and
internally found issues.
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager tool (pdweb): Includes fixes for internally found issues.
• HP-UX Software Assistant: Version C.02.50 has performance improvements and defect fixes.
See HP-UX Software Assistant Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/swa-docs.
• Ignite-UX: Includes pre-enablement for future VxVM versions and support for new HP-UX
hardware and drivers. See Ignite-UX documents at http://www.hp.com/go/ignite-ux-docs
• Insight managed system setup wizard: Version A.6.0.1 supports new hardware and supports
upgrading from previous releases of the wizard.
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM): Provides the automatic increase of pre-allocated extents when
the threshold value is reached for space-efficient snapshots; enables you to change the size
and mirror count of an original logical volume on a snapshot tree; optimizes resynchronization
I/Os of snapshot mirrors by resynchronizing only the unshared units of the extents. See HP-UX
Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/
hpux-core-docs.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Includes fixes for
internally found issues.
• Online Diagnostics: Several monitors will be replaced by corresponding native providers,
which will be available on newer servers. Starting with HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 release,
OnlineDiag (including STM) is in support mode. OnlineDiag is not supported on newer
platforms, and SysFaultMgmt is the default monitoring mode on both older and newer platforms.
See EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 Release and STM Release Notes
for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 Release at http://hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs.
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