HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 Release Notes, Edition 2

• HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.9 to incorporate defect fixes
and support for virtual IDs.
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to version 5.2 with enhancements for Remote Support
Pack.
• HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Supports use of numeric login names for local and
NIS user names and group names.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Allows you to obtain separate graphically represented reports
for usage of kernel resources for time intervals of Five Minutes, Hourly, Daily, and Weekly.
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Supports FC (Fibre Channel) adapters.
• Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.7. Supports new hardware enabled by the HP-UX release.
Includes defect fixes.
• New: Kernel Tracing on HP-UX (ktracer): Provides the ability to analyze and troubleshoot
HP-UX operating system behavior. Captures information on kernel procedure calls, parameters
and timing across all processes and processors, and reports it on demand.
• Logical Volume Manager: Increased limits of Version 2.1 volume groups enable much larger
and more flexible LVM configurations. Other features improve the availability and usability
of the server.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes.
• NGROUPS Expansion: Allows users and processes to have group-level permissions based on
a larger number of groups than the previous fixed limit.
• 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: Supports updated to support new and future HBAs.
• Printer Management (web-based): Provides support in the TUI for adding remote printer and
for adding printer to a TSM terminal.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles (QPKAPPS and QPKBASE): Third release for HP-UX 11i v3 with a
sizable increase in the number of defect fix patches included.
• Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Now supports detection of
possible installation errors in addition to the packaging errors.
• System Fault Management: Several changes including the introduction of MCA Indication
Provider and ComputerSystem Chassis Provider, and support for MCA logs and Agile
information.
• New: Tunable Base Page Size: Enhancement makes it possible to tune the size of the system
base page, which was formerly fixed at 4 KB. Now the additional sizes 8 KB, 16 KB, and
64 KB are available. The larger system base page size reduces the kernel's memory footprint
and makes certain memory management operations more efficient.
• New: Tune-N-Tools: Delivers the tool tuneserver(1m). When executed, sets kernel tunables to
values appropriate for major customer business application workloads.
• Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
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