HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• 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Audited NIS+ Users subarea is obsolete.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.
• System Administration Management Tool Changes: SAM and HP System Management
Homepage: System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i v3. HP System
Management Homepage (HP SMH) is the system administration tool for managing HP-UX 11i.
HP SMH provides Web-based systems management functionality, at-a-glance monitoring of
system component health, and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides Terminal
User Interfaces (TUIs).
• New: System Fault Management: Collection of tools used to monitor the health of HP servers
and receive information about hardware such as memory, CPU, power supplies, and cooling
devices. Operates in the WBEM environment.
• Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: The update-ux command now uses Software Manager, a
new application that provides features including support for preview; interactive TUI; better
support for multiple media, including more accurate disk space analysis, dependency selection
across media; and improved logging capabilities.
• Virtual Memory Kernel Tunables: The eqmem_limit (only on PA-RISC systems) has been
added. Several tunables have been removed.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”
• HFS (also known as UFS) File System Type: Now deprecated. Will be removed from the OS
in a future release, to be determined.
• HFS file system and backup commands: To work on file sizes larger than 2TB.
• HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.02.01 with support for MS Distributed File System
(DFS) and DLKM feature and other changes.
• HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0f version A.02.03: Redesign of Winbind code; File Locking
Interoperation Functionality; support for long user and group names; support for TDB Memory
Map; and other changes.
• HP-UX File Systems Architecture Enhancements: Numerous enhancements include VFS stacking
capabilities; fsdaemon user level daemon; large file systems and large files support; improved
file systems syncer; performance improvement of aio_reap(2); support of larger files and
long link names in backup utility; and several other enhancements.
• Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX: Delivers significant scalability and availability
enhancements. Supports the next generation mass storage stack, and is integrated with the
mass storage stack’s load balancing and dynamic LUN expansion features; enhanced to
support larger logical volumes, temporary suspension of volume groups, striping with mirroring,
and dynamic LUN expansion; enables online modification of a volume group, as well as a
new script to simplify the replacement of a failing disk.
• Open Network Computing (ONC)
AutoFS/Automounter: Updated with support for LDAP name service to store AutoFS maps;
the ability to browse the list of potential mount points in an indirect AutoFS map without
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mounting the filesystems; the ability to configure AutoFS through the /etc/default/
autofs file; and other features.
◦ Cache File System (CacheFS): New features include long file name support, cachefspack,
and support for large files and large file system.
◦ Library RPC: Library routines support several new datatypes, add support for IPv6, and
more.
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