HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

◦ New: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) that records system-utilization
data on a 5-minute interval; data recorded includes CPU, memory, disk, and network
utilization; also includes a WBEM provider for access to the data.
◦ vPar Provider: WBEM provider displays information about virtual partitions. Read-only;
clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations with it.
• HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17.01 with support for persistent DSF naming and
dynamic multipathing, large PID, identification of networking interfaces (NICs) that are part
of the Serviceguard cluster configuration, and other features. VERITAS Cluster File System
(CFS) and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) not supported in initial release of HP-UX 11i v3.
RS232 serial line as cluster heartbeat is obsolete.
• HP Serviceguard Network File System (NFS) Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.31.02 with
new control script template and a defect fix. Can work with Serviceguard A.11.17.01, but
does not support some Serviceguard A.11.17.01 and NFS HP-UX 11i v3 features. Users who
need VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) should not upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 until CFS is
available on that platform.
• HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.5 to incorporate defect fixes.
In addition, is the addition of the new Web-based solutions for Networking and
Communications (ncweb), and Serviceguard complex management (sgmgr) being introduced
for HP-UX 11i v3.
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to “HP SIM 5.0 with Update 2 - HP-UX” with support
for HP BladeSystem c-Class blade and enclosure, and onboard administrator; HP BladeSystem
Integrated Manager 2.1 with updated functionality; minimum system memory configuration
to run HP SIM on HP-UX 11i v3 is now 3GB, and defect fixes.
• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.05 with association providers,
internationalization support for CIM operations, CIM schema upgrade, and other major
changes.
• HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: New TUI in place of the legacy SAM interface; long
user names and group names; NIS + Shadow mode can co-exist.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Command preview support in TUI; TUI supports form-based inputs;
supports Error Management Technology; includes critical defect fixes.
• New: HP-UX Large NPROC: The HP-UX 11i v3 system can support more processes running
concurrently then previous releases, changing from 30,000 to 60,000.
• New: HP-UX Large PID: The range of Process Identifiers (PID) the kernel can generate in a
stand-alone HP-UX system has been expanded from 0 ~ 30,000 to 0 ~ 2^^30-1
(1,073,741,823).
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Enhanced to support the Agile Hardware Path Addressing
and Persistent Device Special Files; enhanced to allow for Online deletion of OLRAD cards;
now reads the detailed CRA report from the log file in which the report is logged after the
change in the CRA behavior; and more.
• HP-UX System V IPC Message Queues: Enhanced with dynamic tuning capabilities. Tunables
msgmax, msgssz, msgmap, msgseg are obsolete. Added new dynamic tunable msgmbs;
indicates maximum kernel memory to be used for messages waiting to be received. Tunables
msgmni, msgtql are made dynamic.
• HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version 11.31.01. All functionalities for
association classes are now implemented.
• New: HP-UX WBEM File System Provider: Makes available file system information; instruments
the HPUX_HFS, HP_LOFS, HP_CDFS, HP_VxFS, HP_NFS, HP_MountPoint and HPUX_Mount
classes.
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