HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• 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. Similar
functionality offered by diaglogd daemon (in the OnlineDiag bundle), will be obsoleted and
provided by the oserrlogd daemon (in the ProviderSvcsBase bundle). See HP-UX
ProviderSvcsBase Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs. (Select HP-UX
11i WBEM Software.)
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for the September 2010 release.
• Software Distributor (SD): Includes defect fixes. See http://www.hp.com/go/sd.
• System Fault Management (SFM): Updated to revision C.07.01.xx.yy with additional support
for more robust inventory and error handling on newer platforms. Switching between SFM
and EMS modes is not available on newer platforms. Enhanced to support the following new
and updated property pages in HP SMH (see hpsmh(1M)): Blade; Memory; Cell Blade. See
SFM Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs.
• New: Tunable for aggressive kernel memory caching: Provides tunable
kmem_aggressive_caching to give you control over the caching and pre-allocation of
kernel memory pages.
• Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Delivers defect fixes.
• WBEM Services and providers
HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Version A.02.09.04 is a minor update to the HP WBEM
Services version A.02.09 that was released with HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 in September
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2009. Includes defect fixes. Starting with September 2009, HP WBEM Services version
A.02.09 is not available on HP-UX 11i v1. Only defects that are critical in nature will be
addressed on HP-UX 11i v1 systems. See HP WBEM Services Version A.02.09 Release
Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage Provider: Not supported on HPVM guest OS.
Indication provider supports System GUID and Network address properties. Includes
defect fixes. See HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage Provider Release Notes at http://
hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel 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_fclp_adapter and
dm_ql_adapter monitors used by Fibre Channel Indication provider will be replaced
by HPUXFCNativeIndicationProviderModule on newer servers. See HP-UX WBEM
Fibre Channel Provider Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM File System Provider: Allows non-root users to monitor the file system status.
See product release notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider: Not supported on HPVM guest OS. Includes
defect fixes. See HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider Release Notes at http://
hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM nPartition Provider: Delivers defect fixes. See the product release notes at
http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
◦ HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA Provider: Not supported on HPVM guest OS. Indication provider
supports System GUID and Network address properties. Includes defect fixes. See HP-UX
WBEM RAIDSA Provider Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs.
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