Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.0 PowerPatch 5 (Software Release C.70.05) HP e3000 MPE/iX Computer Systems Volume 12, Issue 5 Manufacturing Part Number : 30216-90370 E1007 U.S.A.
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Contents 1. Overview Communicator Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 1, Overview — Communicator Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 2, Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 3, Technical Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contents Migrating from Previous Versions of Apache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Migrating from WebWise A.01.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For Further Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sendmail 8.13.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 Overview This Communicator HP e3000 provides general and detailed information on the new and enhanced functionality for the MPE/iX Release 7.0 PowerPatch 5 (C.70.05), as well as information on support, release strategy and installation prerequisites. This Communicator should be used in conjunction with the Communicators from Releases 7.0 and 7.0 Express 1. Only new information relating to the Release 7.0 PowerPatch 5 is contained in this document.
Overview Communicator Summary Communicator Summary Following are brief descriptions of the articles and chapters. Chapter 1, Overview — Communicator Summary This chapter provides a summary of information contained in this manual. It also provides information about obtaining MPE patches from the HP Electronic Support Center. Chapter 2, Announcements Important announcements regarding availability of products and services are included in this chapter. • Introducing MPE/iX Release 7.
Overview MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center by Patch Support Team Commercial Systems Division MPE/iX patches for MPE/iX Releases are available on the IT Resource Center (previously the HP Electronic Support Center) to all customers. Features and Benefits The patch access and delivery system benefits all MPE/iX customers with: • Improved overall communication between HP and customers.
Overview MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center Electronic Digests If you want to keep yourself up-to-date on the latest development of MPE/iX patches, you can sign up for the daily Security Bulletin and weekly mpeix_patch Bulletin. Once you have subscribed to these two bulletins, you will receive these digests on a periodic basis via electronic mail. HP IT Resource Center will inform you proactively about newly developed security and GR patches.
Overview MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center AUTOPAT Installation Document Retrieval AUTOPATINST is the “DOCID” of the document with instructions to assist you in installing one or more patches needed by your MPE/iX system using the AUTOPAT installation tool. 1. Access the HP IT Resource Center WEB site (previously the Electronic Support Center) using the appropriate WEB address for your country. 2. In the Main Menu, Click on the link, “Search Technical Knowledge Base.” 3.
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2 Announcements MPE/iX Release 7.0 PowerPatch 5 MPE/iX and the e3000 have been dutifully serving HP customers for nearly 30 years. On November 14th, 2001 HP announced the end of sales for the HP e3000 and MPE/iX. HP realizes that customers are planning their migration away from the e3000 and MPE/iX. We understand that it is very important for our customers to have additional time to develop and implement their migration strategy.
Announcements MPE/iX Beta Test Patches Listed On Web Site MPE/iX Beta Test Patches Listed On Web Site HP is making MPE/iX beta test patches available to our customers who may benefit from installing them before they are made generally available or "GR." A beta test or "BT" patch is thoroughly tested in the MPE/iX lab before release. However, it has not completed testing by the customer or customers for whom it was initially created.
Announcements Obtaining Software Security Patches for your HP Computer System Obtaining Software Security Patches for your HP Computer System Hewlett-Packard would like to make you aware of a special free service provided for all customers of HP e3000 and HP 9000 computer systems. This service gives customers a direct route to Hewlett-Packard for obtaining information relating to the security of their Hewlett-Packard Computer System(s).
Announcements Obtaining Software Security Patches for your HP Computer System How to Subscribe To subscribe to automatically receive future NEW HP Security Bulletins from the Hewlett-Packard Electronic Support Center via electronic mail, do the following (instructions subject to change without notice): 1. Use your browser to access the HP IT Resource Center web page at: http://us-support.external.hp.com US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America http://europe-support.external.hp.com Europe 2.
3 Technical Articles This chapter contains the following articles: • Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays • HP SureStore Virtual Array 7110 and 7410 on the HP e3000 • Support of the HP SureStore E Disk Arrays XP12000 and XP10000 • Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX • Predictive Changes SYSSTART during UPDATE • TurboIMAGE B-Tree Behavior Clarification • WebWise Replaces Apache in FOS • Introducing Sendmail for MPE/iX Chapter 3 15
Technical Articles Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays by Jim Hawkins, MPE/iX Lab General Information At no charge, High Availability FailOver/iX (HAFO or HAFO/iX) is now available for HP e3000 systems connected to many of HP’s VA and XP family Fibre Channel (FC) disk array products. Support is offered for customers with HP e3000 A/N-Class systems running MPE/iX 7.
Technical Articles Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays CAUTION Before deploying HAFO, system disk I/O performance should be analyzed. Those systems with disk I/O bottlenecks (long disk queues and/or I/O completion times greater than a few seconds) are not good HAFO candidates as false failover events may be seen. NOTE Those customers using Cluster/iX to protect their MPE/iX disk volumes may NOT use HAFO/iX on these same volumes.
Technical Articles Announcing High Availability FailOver/iX for FC Disk Arrays Documentation Please refer to http://docs.hp.com/ for the new edition of the HAFO manual: High Availability FailOver/iX Manual (MPE/iX 7.0, MPE/iX 7.5) Edition 2, date code E0803, Part Number: 32650-90911 (“.pdf ” only) The previous version of the manual still applies to MPE/iX 6.5 customers with SCSI XP256: "High Availability Failover Utilities Configuration Guide" (Part No.
Technical Articles HP SureStore Virtual Array 7110 and 7410 on the HP e3000 HP SureStore Virtual Array 7110 and 7410 on the HP e3000 by Jim Hawkins, MPE/iX Lab The HP StorageWorks Virtual Array is a low-cost, high capacity, high performance, 2 Gb Fibre Channel virtual disk array that delivers industry leading uptime. You can mix and match drives of different size, and add capacity instantly. HP's hot swap technology and redundant components reduce planned downtime.
Technical Articles HP SureStore Virtual Array 7110 and 7410 on the HP e3000 — F/W SCSI Device Adapter HP28696A. Firmware version 3728 — SCSI-FC Fabric Router A5814A #003. Firmware version 8.01.0A — HSSDC Gigabit Interface Converters (GBIC) — Fibre optic cable: 62- or 50-micron fibre optic cable with dual SC connector OR — A/N-Class (PCI based systems): — A6795A PCI- 2Gbit Card -- LC Cable interface — No additional GBIC for Card, Device still requires one.
Technical Articles Support of the HP SureStore E Disk Arrays XP12000 and XP10000 Support of the HP SureStore E Disk Arrays XP12000 and XP10000 by Dave Black, MPE/iX Expert Center and Jim Hawkins CSY Lab This article contains information on the support and configuration of the HP SureStore E Disk Arrays XP12000 and XP10000. These are part of the overall XP family of arrays. The XP12000 is the high-end part of the XP12000/XP10000 pair. The XP10000 is a smaller, repackaged version of the XP120000.
Technical Articles Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX by Jim Hawkins, MPE/iX Lab The purpose of this article is to document the limited support offered for Ultrium Tape Devices (a.k.a. “LTO”) on MPE/iX. The primary considerations are outlined below. Items #3 and #4 are unique to Ultrium Tape Devices and represent a departure from traditional MPE/iX tape device support. 1.
Technical Articles Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX Error Reporting, Diagnostics and Firmware Updates MPE/iX logs all Ultrium Tape device errors and checks conditions to the system log files as with other SCSI tapes. System Log files can then be examined with LOGTOOL or cstm’s logtool utility. Similarly, all standard tape console messages such as AVR tape mount or cleaning cartridge prompts can be seen. However, MPE/iX cstm (a.k.a.
Technical Articles Announcing Limited Support for Ultrium Tape on MPE/iX Configuration Example: Given the following output from “ISL> ODE RUN MAPPER2” 0/6 Elroy PCI Bridge 0/6/2/0 Symbios SCSI Controller 0/6/2/0.3.0 Ultrium (LTO) 1-SCSI Tape drive DH 782H AH 0 0 - - - - E32D The following SYSGEN (IOCONFIG) commands would be used: sysgen> sysgen> sysgen> sysgen> sysgen> ap ap ap ap ad 0/6 pat_pci_bc 0/6/2 pci_device 0/6/2/0 A5149A 0/6/2/0.3 PSEUDO 19 0/6/2/0.3.
Technical Articles Predictive Changes SYSSTART during UPDATE Predictive Changes SYSSTART during UPDATE by Gary Robillard, Predictive Support Due to some customer sites having multiple startup directives in SYSSTART.PUB.SYS, the job that installs Predictive has been modified to recognize this. Previously, this Predictive job would just add the "STREAM JPSMON.PRED.SYS" line to the end of SYSSTART. Now, the job modifies the SYSSTART file as follows: 1.
Technical Articles TurboIMAGE B-Tree Behavior Clarification TurboIMAGE B-Tree Behavior Clarification by Tien You Chen, MPE/iX Lab Possible Confusing Behavior TurboIMAGE has supported B-Tree indices since C.07.00. Even though a user can create a B-Tree index only on the master data set’s key item, s/he can perform index searches using all of its corresponding detail data set search items as well.
Technical Articles WebWise Replaces Apache in FOS WebWise Replaces Apache in FOS By Mark Bixby, Commercial Systems Division The HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server version A.01.00 was first introduced as a separately purchasable add-on product for MPE/iX 6.5 or greater. But as of MPE/iX 7.5, the WebWise web server has been updated to version A.03.00 and replaces Apache in FOS as a no-extra-cost bundled product. Patch WBWGDT7A brings this same functionality to MPE/iX 7.0.
Technical Articles WebWise Replaces Apache in FOS Flexible Encryption Cipher Configuration HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server permits you to configure a wide variety of encryption ciphers, ranging from high-grade domestic-only algorithms to algorithms suitable for export. Additional Log Files Two new log files, ssl_engine_log and ssl_request_log, allow you to log various events associated with secure web requests. New Apache Functionality since 1.3.
Technical Articles Migrating from Previous Versions of Apache Migrating from Previous Versions of Apache The /APACHE/PUB/JHTTPD job stream file from previous versions of Apache is not compatible with HP WebWise MPE/iX Secure Web Server. You must manually create a new JHTTPD job stream file by using the WebWise /APACHE/PUB/JHTTPD.sample template. The /APACHE/PUB/conf/httpd.
Technical Articles Migrating from Previous Versions of Apache For Further Information • http://yourserver.yourdomain.com/manual/ (online documentation included with WebWise) • Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services Manual • http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/webwise/ (HP WebWise) • http://www.apache.org/ (Apache opensource project) • http://www.modssl.org/ (Mod_ssl opensource project) • http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/ (a library of shared memory functions) • http://www.openssl.
Technical Articles Sendmail 8.13.1 Sendmail 8.13.1 By: Jim Hawkins – MPE/iX Lab Sendmail version 8.13.1 has been built into this PowerPatch via the inclusion of patch SMLHDC0. Sendmail 8.13.1 offers powerful, flexible, and supported functionality for sending and receiving SMTP-based e-mail. Customers who have been running the unsupported freeware version 8.9.1 of Sendmail are strongly encouraged to switch to this new 8.13.1 version. For complete information about Sendmail on MPE/iX, please see http://jazz.
Technical Articles Introducing Sendmail for MPE/iX Introducing Sendmail for MPE/iX by Mark Bixby, Commercial Systems Division Previously available as unsupported freeware, Sendmail is now available for MPE/iX 7.0 via patch SMLGDT8A as a fully supported product which allows you to send and receive SMTP-based e-mail. The initial A.01.00 release of Sendmail for MPE/iX is based on the 8.12.1 Internet open source version from sendmail.org.
Technical Articles Introducing Sendmail for MPE/iX DNS Issues The number one cause of Sendmail installation problems is due to improper system naming and/or a lack of DNS entries describing your e3000. Please verify the following before you attempt to run Sendmail for the first time: • /bin/uname –n should report your e3000 hostname as a single token, i.e. “JAZZ” instead of “JAZZ.EXTERNAL.HP.COM”. If you do not see a single token hostname, you must configure a proper hostname by using :NMMGR.
Technical Articles Introducing Sendmail for MPE/iX Migration from SendMail 8.9.1 Many e3000 machines have been running the unsupported freeware version of Sendmail 8.9.1 available from http://www.bixby.org/mark/sendmailix.html. The following considerations apply if you are migrating from 8.9.1 to 8.12.1: • The 8.9.1 daemon job stream file /SENDMAIL/PUB/JDAEMON is not modified by the 8.12.1 installation process, and it is not compatible with the 8.12.1 distribution. You must use /SENDMAIL/CURRENT/JDAEMON.
Technical Articles Samba 2.2.8a Samba 2.2.8a Samba version 2.2.8a has been built into this PowerPatch via the inclusion of patches SMBMXG3 and SMBMXR5. Samba 2.2.8a offers many bug fixes and significant new features compared to the previous release of Samba 2.0.7. New features include encrypted password support, improved printer integration, and increased MPE filename mapping flexibility. For complete information about Samba on MPE/iX, please see http://jazz.external.hp.
Technical Articles Samba 2.2.
