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

◦ HP PCI Ultra160 SCSI (c8xx): Supports new mass storage stack, PCI Online Deletion
(OLD), PCI error detection and recovery, HBA Device Special Files (DSF). Termination of
support for Ultra2 HBAs.
◦ USB-00: Includes various quality improvements from previous releases, a dynamically
managed device file system enabled by default, multi-layered USB mass storage encryption
support, and device tracking.
• New: PCI Error Recovery: Provides the ability to detect, isolate, and automatically recover
from a PCI error, avoiding a system crash.
• New: PCI Card Online Deletion (OLD): The PCI OL* feature has been enhanced to allow
HP-UX 11i v3 administrators to delete PCI cards and their associated drivers online without
requiring a system reboot.
• Utility Pricing Solutions
HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.31.08.01 to include modifications to the
installation procedure; support for Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) and hyperthreading;
changes to GiCAP grouping rules and icapstatus command output; and more.
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◦ HP Pay per use: Updated to version B.11.31.08.01.00 with support for hyperthreading
features included in HP-UX 11i v3.
• Xserver: The Xserver’s configuration tool is available via the HP SMH interface.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• asyncdsk Driver Kernel Tunable max_async_ports: max_async_ports is now a dynamic
tunable; default value changed to 4096 and maximum value is 4194304.
• New: Concurrent Dump: You can now configure your machine to perform a distributed parallel
dump, thereby improving the dump throughput and reducing dump time.
• Daylight Savings Time (DST). Changes for US DST rules.
• Detect and Strobe: Disabled when any system configuration altering activity is in progress.
Functionality enabled by default (value set at 80%).
• Disks and File Systems ( fsweb): Provides a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) and
text user interface (TUI) for File System and Disks system administration tasks.
• New: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Includes an interface expansion, providing
long username and long hostnames.
• New: Enhanced User Core File Naming: New command, coreadm, introduced to uniquely
name application core files created by abnormally terminating user processes.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Includes support for VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in a
Serviceguard A.11.17 environment, support for Serviceguard 11.17.01 (non-CFS) for CIFS,
Tomcat, Apache, Oracle 10g, and more.
• New: Event Manager: A comprehensive mechanism for posting, distributing, storing, and
reviewing event information. Composed of a kernel component, user libraries (libevm.so)
and a set of commands.
• Event Monitoring Service: Now enhanced to send WBEM indications, which can be viewed
from the EVWEB tool.
• New: High Resolution Timer Support: Enhances select timer-related system calls and APIs to
provide a resolution finer than the default 10 millisecond resolution.
• HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.55 with support for large process
IDs; enhancement to record the Logical Volume (LV) metrics for Veritas Volume Manager,
versions VxVM 4.1 and VxVM 5.0; new metrics for monitoring the UFC; and other changes.
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