HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• 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. Provides capability to apply an Instant Capacity codeword, modify Instant Capacity
properties, and change the number of active cores on the system.
• Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.8. Includes improved Ignite and vPars interaction on 11i
v3, ability to avoid use of TFTP networking, ability to use Ignite on a network that has IPV6
enabled, and more.
• Logical Volume Manager: Includes vgmodify command enhancements that enable you to
handle the physical volume size changes and modify configuration parameters of an existing
LVM volume group belonging on all supported volume group versions. Also includes new
command, vgversion, which enables you to take advantage of the improvements in volume
group Version 2.0 and higher, and to get higher limits, in-place volume group migration from
1.0 to 2.0 and higher. Plus much more.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: You can now use the
HP SMH web interface for managing IPv6 neighbor discovery cache.
• 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: Updated to support new and future devices, and to incorporate defect
fixes. Has new pre-requisite.
• Printer Management (web-based): Includes defect fixes.
• New: 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.
• New: 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. Upon storing the error records in log files, the daemon sends EVM notification
to the clients that are interested in reading the error logs.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for the March 2009 OEUR.
• Software Distributor (SD): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Now delivered in the
SysMgmtMin bundle instead of the SwMgmtMin bundle.
• Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• System Fault Management: With new CIMUtil command, one can enumerate instances
related to various devices and create filters, handlers, and subscriptions that SFM supports.
No longer supports storage disks; instead, they are supported by DAS Provider. Has new
pre-requisite
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