HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

system component health, and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides Terminal
User Interfaces (TUIs).
• System Fault Management: Features include Event Manager-Common Information Model
Provider and Error Management Technology. SFMIndicationProvider and Log Viewer not
available; other changes included.
• Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: The update-ux command now uses Software Manager, a
new application that provides features including support for preview; interactive TUI; better
support for multiple media, including more accurate disk space analysis, dependency selection
across media; and improved logging capabilities.
• Virtual Memory Kernel Tunable physical_io_buffers: Now obsolete. Was used in HP-UX
11i v1.6 and v2 to size a shared buffer pool for physical I/O operations in the kernel. As of
HP-UX 11i v3 and later, the kernel automatically manages the pool size.
• Virtual Memory Kernel Tunables: The eqmem_limit (only on PA-RISC systems) has been
added. Several tunables has been removed. See the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes for
details.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”
• HFS (also known as UFS) File System Type: Now deprecated. Will be removed from the OS
in a future release, to be determined.
• HFS file system and backup commands: To work on file sizes larger than 2TB.
• HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.02.01 with support for MS Distributed File System
(DFS) and DLKM feature and other changes.
• HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0f version A.02.03: Redesign of Winbind code; File Locking
Interoperation Functionality; support for long user and group names; support for TDB Memory
Map.
• HP-UX File Systems Architecture Enhancements: Numerous enhancements include VFS stacking
capabilities; fsdaemon user level daemon; large file systems and large files support; improved
file systems syncer; performance improvement of aio_reap(2); support of larger files and long
link names in backup utility; and several other enhancements.
• Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX: Delivers significant scalability and availability
enhancements. Supports the next generation mass storage stack, and is integrated with the
mass storage stack’s load balancing and dynamic LUN expansion features; enhanced to
support larger logical volumes, temporary suspension of volume groups, striping with mirroring,
and dynamic LUN expansion; enables online modification of a volume group, as well as a
new script to simplify the replacement of a failing disk.
• Open Network Computing (ONC)
AutoFS/Automounter: Updated with the ability to configure AutoFS through the /etc/
default/autofs file; a new startup/shutdown script for product (no longer controlled
by the NFS client startup/shutdown script); support for NFSv4, SecureNFS, and IPv6.
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◦ Cache File System (CacheFS): New features include long file name support, cachefspack,
and support for large files and large file system.
◦ Library RPC: Library routines support several new datatypes, add support for IPv6, and
more.
◦ Network File System (NFS) Services: Provides numerous enhancements, including pcnfsd
daemon, which is multithreaded and supports shadow password and Secure RPC; new
user mode daemon generates and validates API security tokens, and maps the GSSAPI
principal names to the local user and group IDs; additional security mechanisms, such
as Secure NFS that supports Kerberos through GSSAPI; NFS access using a firewall; and
many other features.
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