G06.24 Release Version Update Compendium Abstract This compendium provides a summary for the products that have major changes in the G06.24 release version update (RVU), including the products’ new features, migration issues, and fallback considerations. The compendium is written for system managers or anyone who needs to understand how migrating to G06.24 affects installation, configuration, operations, system management, maintenance, applications, networks, and databases. Product Version N.A.
Document History Part Number Product Version Published 528616-001 N.A. August 2004 528616-002 N.A. October 2004 528616-003 N.A.
G06.24 Release Version Update Compendium Tables What’s New in This Manual v Manual Information v New and Changed Information About This Manual vii Who Should Use This Guide? Organization vii Related RVU Manuals vii v vii 1. G06.24 Overview NonStop Servers Supported 1-1 Major New Features 1-1 Product Removed From the SUT 1-2 2.
. Database and Transaction Processing Products Contents 4. Database and Transaction Processing Products NonStop DCE 4-1 NonStop SQL/MP 4-2 TMF 4-2 Migration 4-2 Fallback 4-3 5. Installation and Configuration Products Boot Millicode 5-1 Migration 5-1 6. Manageability Products OSM 6-1 Safeguard 6-1 SNMP 6-2 SPI 6-2 TSM 6-2 7.
A. Sources for Migration Assistance and Information Contents A. Sources for Migration Assistance and Information ExpressNotice A-1 Information on the Site Update Tape (SUT) A-2 Scout for NonStop Servers A-2 Global Customer Support Center (GCSC) A-2 NonStop Technical Library (NTL) A-2 Tables Table 1-1. Summary of the G06.24 RVU 1-1 G06.
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What’s New in This Manual Manual Information G06.24 Release Version Update Compendium Abstract This compendium provides a summary for the products that have major changes in the G06.24 release version update (RVU), including the products’ new features, migration issues, and fallback considerations. The compendium is written for system managers or anyone who needs to understand how migrating to G06.
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About This Manual This compendium provides categorized information for new features, migration issues, and fallback considerations for G06.24. It also includes references and sources for migration planning. Who Should Use This Guide? This compendium is written for system managers or anyone who needs to understand how migrating to G06.24 affects installation, configuration, operations, system management, maintenance, applications, networks, and databases. Organization Section Description Section 1, G06.
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1 G06.24 Overview This section lists the supported HP NonStop™ S-series servers and the major new features for the G06.24 RVU. NonStop Servers Supported NonStop S7000, NonStop S7400, NonStop S7600, NonStop S7800, NonStop S70000, NonStop S72000, NonStop S74000, NonStop S76000, NonStop S78000, NonStop S86000, and NonStop S88000. Major New Features Table 1-1. Summary of the G06.
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2 Operating System The G06.24 RVU contains these operating system changes: • • • • OSS Monitor OSS Persistent Processes OSS System Utilities Standard POSIX Threads OSS Monitor New Features Product version G11 provides a new online configuration facility for the HP NonStop Open System Services (OSS) filesets. In prior versions: • • An OSS fileset had to be stopped to add a disk, remove a disk, or change fileset attributes.
Migration Operating System • • ALTER SERVER STATUS SERVER Several maximum values have been increased and the ability to control them has been added: • • • The maximum number of inodes is now 2.2 million per fileset. The maximum number of cached inode entries is now 500,000 per OSS name server. The maximum number of cached link entries is now 500,000 per OSS name server. Migration Use of the new features is optional. No change in current site management procedures is required.
Fallback Operating System • • • • • • • T1084G06AAH T1085G06AAL T6586G07AAU T5800G06AAP T9082G02ACX T8624G10AAM T8397G00ABA Note. OSS persistent processes are supported on G06.23 and later RVUs; however, the above SPRs are not on the G06.23 SUT, and T8624G10AAM and T8397G00ABA are not on the G06.24 SUT. All of the listed SPRs are included on the G06.25 and later SUTs. OSS persistent processes can be used without SPRs T8624G10AAM and T8397G00ABA.
Fallback Operating System See the resolution of Genesis solution 10-020709-0227 and the T8628AAJ softdoc for details. Fallback After fallback, the new flags would not be recognized, and the feature would not work. OSS shell scripts written to use the new feature would not run correctly.
3 Application Development Products The G06.24 RVU contains no new features for application development products. G06.
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4 Database and Transaction Processing Products The G06.24 RVU contains new features for these database and transaction processing products: • • • NonStop DCE NonStop SQL/MP TMF NonStop DCE HP NonStop Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) has been enhanced to provide jacket routines for context-sensitive SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_xxxx_( ) guardian procedures. DCE already provided the jacket routine for the context-free Pathway routine SERVERCLASS_SEND_, limited to sending and receiving 32 KB of data.
Database and Transaction Processing Products • NonStop SQL/MP DCE_SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_ABORT_ Aborts the dialog specified by the dialog ID. This procedure does not perform I/O operations. NonStop SQL/MP In G06.24, a new option SQLNULLABLE has been added to the SQLCI COPY, LOAD, and APPEND commands to support SQLNULLABLE DDL clause for loading null values from Enscribe to SQL or from SQL to Enscribe.
Database and Transaction Processing Products Fallback strategy, consider altering the audit-trail format at migration time, given that TMF is already stopped. If not done at this time, altering the audit-trail configuration to enable format 2 audit-trail files requires a STOP TMF command at a later time. Altering the audit-trail format does not require a change in the audit-trail file size at this time. With G06.24, the audit trail file size can be altered while TMF is started or stopped.
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5 Installation and Configuration Products The G06.24 RVU contains new features for this installation and configuration product: • Boot Millicode Boot Millicode T7892ABD is available for Boot Millicode. Migration Before upgrading boot millicode to T7892ABD, you must have the G06.24 or later version of either TSM server (T7945ABN) or OSM server-based SPRs (along with their pre-requisites) configured and running. Otherwise, a system outage will result.
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6 Manageability Products The G06.24 RVU contains new features for these manageability products: • • • • • OSM Safeguard SNMP SPI TSM OSM The HP NonStop Open System Management (OSM) Interface has been revised for G06.24 to add support for: • • • • • • • • I/O adapter module enclosure and components Enterprise Storage System (ESS) HP NonStop S7800, S78000, and S88000 PMF processor types (Required for using) OSM Online Boot Millicode Firmware Update to upgrade processor boot code to version T7892ABD.
SNMP Manageability Products SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been enhanced for G06.24. Several existing dot3StatsTable objects now support fields that report statistics about the Gigabit Ethernet 4-Port ServerNet adapter (G4SA). For detailed information about these fields and the structures that contain them, see the SNMP Configuration and Management Manual. SPI For the G06.
7 Hardware Products The G06.24 RVU contains new features for these hardware products: • • • • • CT9841FC-x Fibre Channel Tape Drive ESS IOAM NonStop S78000 Server NonStop S88000 Server CT9841FC-x Fibre Channel Tape Drive The CT9841FC-x tape drive is an industrial strength, high-performance tape storage product that is a replacement for the CT9840FC-x tape products. The CT9841FC-x is backward-read compatible with the CT9840FC-x and CT9840-x tape drives.
Fallback Hardware Products Restrictions for the ESS include: • • If you migrate data from a NonStop S-series system to an ESS and the data is located on disks within I/O enclosures, these I/O enclosures must be populated with I/O multifunction 2 (IOMF 2) CRUs. Contractually, only ESS-trained technicians can handle or configure ESS equipment. So, for any activities that involve installing, configuring, or operating the ESS, the technician trained for working with the ESS must be on site and available.
NonStop S78000 Server Hardware Products Restrictions for the IOAM include: • • • For any site where an IOAM enclosure is installed, the NonStop S-series system must be populated entirely by processors of type S76000 or higher. The site must be equipped with an operational LAN and must have access to a DHCP server, or to software that mimics one. The version of OSM on your system must contain the SPRs for G06.24. For the complete SPR list, see the OSM Migration Guide.
Fallback Hardware Products For compatibility of PMF CRUs and coexistence of enclosures in a system, see the NonStop S-Series Planning and Configuration Guide. Before you upgrade to G06.24 or later RVUs, if your system includes processors with processor model 1951 (NonStop S70000 or NonStop S70000SE), you must change the processor type from NSR-G to NSR-C in the CONFTEXT file, ALLPROCESSORS statement. All other references to NSR-G are still valid.
Migration Hardware Products Migration The NonStop S88000 server is introduced at G06.24 and supported on G06.24 and later RVUs. Before installing S88000 processors in the system, you must first install the G06.24 RVU. See the G06.24 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide for more information regarding software requirements for migrating. The processor type for the NonStop S88000 server is NSR-Z.
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8 Networking Products The G06.24 RVU contains new features for these networking products: • • G4SA WAN Wizard Pro G4SA Introduced at G06.24, the Gigabit Ethernet 4-Port ServerNet adapter (G4SA) is a multiport ServerNet adapter that provides 1000 megabits/second (Mbps) data transfer rates between HP NonStop S-series systems and Ethernet LANs. The G4SA is the only LAN adapter supported for the I/O adapter module (IOAM) enclosure, and it is installed in slots 1 through 5 of an IOAM.
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A Sources for Migration Assistance and Information This appendix describes the assistance HP provides when problems arise during the migration and testing process. Services are also available from HP that can help you develop a migration plan and implement migration tasks. Most migration and release documentation is available through the HP NonStop Technical Library (NTL).
Sources for Migration Assistance and Information Information on the Site Update Tape (SUT) Information on the Site Update Tape (SUT) These documents are available on the Y9230Gnn release subvolume located on the SUT for each G-series RVU: • Content file Contains a list of the product versions and software product revisions (SPRs) that are included on the site update tape (SUT). • README This file contains information that was not yet available when the manuals or softdocs were published.
Sources for Migration Assistance and Information NonStop Technical Library (NTL) S-series server; product installation and configuration; product availability in a particular RVU; and performance information for a specific RVU. • G06.24 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide Provides procedures for upgrading to the G06.24 RVU. Instructions include installing the G06.24 SUT and other related installation tasks.
Sources for Migration Assistance and Information NonStop Technical Library (NTL) subsystems, performing routine hardware maintenance, and performing recovery operations. • NonStop S-Series Service Provider Supplement Written for system support planners responsible for the correct operation of system hardware, this guide describes how to replace system hardware components defined as field-replaceable units (FRUs) on a NonStop S-series server.
