HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• 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.
• New: Insight managed system setup wizard: Configures systems to enable them to be managed
by HP Systems Insight Manager software (HP SIM) and its plug-in applications. Newly added
as optional (selectable) software for all OEs. Bundle MgdSysSetupWzrd.
• Logical Volume Manager: Updated to version 2.2. Introduces the logical volume snapshot,
the lvmove command, boot support for new LVM layout, and more.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Delivers defect fixes.
• Numeric User Group Name: Includes further enhancements to support user/group names that
begin with numeric characters or that are entirely numeric.
• Obsolescence Bundle: Now also includes MLIB, MPI, and Mozilla.
• Online Diagnostics: Will not be supported on newer platforms. SysFaultMgmt will be the
default monitoring mode.
• Printer Management (web-based): Delivers defect fixes.
• PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): Supports new and updated property pages in HP SMH.
• ProviderSvcsBase: CIM_RegisteredProfile class and CIM_ElementConformsToProfile class
moved to HP WBEM Services for HP-UX.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for March 2010.
• Software Distributor (SD): Delivers defect fixes.
• Software Package Builder: New policy rules are enforced for attributes while validating
software package. Now requires Java 1.5 or higher version to be installed.
• System Fault Management: Common Error Repository (CER) database, delivered in SFM, will
be available in ProviderSvcsBase. Updated content of HP SMH property pages.
• Update-UX: Updated to support changes to Software Distributor.
• WBEM services and providers
HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: The output of wbemassist tool available in Japanese
locale. Also delivers defect fixes.
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◦ HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage Provider (DASProvider): A new provider fetches
information regarding error records logged in the DISKPROVDB database. A new health
test functionality supports diagnosing the health of hard disks available on newer HP
Integrity systems.
◦ HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: A new provider fetches information regarding
error records logged in the FCPROVDB database. Also delivers a defect fix.
◦ HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider: Delivers defect fixes. A new configuration file
allows tuning of the polling interval.
◦ HP-UX WBEM Kernel Providers: Delivers defect fixes.
◦ HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA PROVIDER: A new provider fetches information regarding error
records logged in the RAIDSAPROVDB database.
◦ HP-UX WBEM SAS PROVIDER: A new provider fetches information regarding error records
logged in the SASPROVDB database.
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