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

• HP Systems Insight Manager: Version 6.0 introduces a series of exciting enhancements.
Scalability which allows manageability up to 10,000 systems (up to 5,000 servers, with
additional 5,000 management processors, VMS, and so on) when using Windows 64-bit.
Enhanced reporting including tables and graphs for easier access to Systems Insight Manager
data; migration tool to transfers settings from a SIM 5.3x CMS to a SIM 6.0 CMS; a firmware
update that integrates with HP Smart Update Manager and provides agentless firmware
upgrade for management processor and Onboard Administrator. For the complete list of what
is new, see the HP Systems Insight Manager Readme at the HP SIM 6.x Information
library:http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.
• HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb): Includes fixes for internally found defects.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb): Includes fixes for a customer-reported problem and
internally found issues.
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager tool (pdweb): Includes fixes for internally found issues.
• HP-UX Software Assistant: Version C.02.50 has performance improvements and defect fixes.
See HP-UX Software Assistant Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/swa-docs.
• Ignite-UX: Includes pre-enablement for future VxVM versions and support for new HP-UX
hardware and drivers. See Ignite-UX documents at http://www.hp.com/go/ignite-ux-docs
• Insight managed system setup wizard: Version A.6.0.1 supports new hardware and supports
upgrading from previous releases of the wizard.
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM): Provides the automatic increase of pre-allocated extents when
the threshold value is reached for space-efficient snapshots; enables you to change the size
and mirror count of an original logical volume on a snapshot tree; optimizes resynchronization
I/Os of snapshot mirrors by resynchronizing only the unshared units of the extents. See HP-UX
Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/
hpux-core-docs.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Includes fixes for
internally found issues.
• Online Diagnostics: Several monitors will be replaced by corresponding native providers,
which will be available on newer servers. Starting with HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 release,
OnlineDiag (including STM) is in support mode. OnlineDiag is not supported on newer
platforms, and SysFaultMgmt is the default monitoring mode on both older and newer platforms.
See EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 Release and STM Release Notes
for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 Release at http://hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs.
• PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): Displays HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) compatible overall
systems status on HP SMH. Enhanced support for the following new and updated property
pages in HP SMH (see hpsmh(1M)): Blade; Memory; Cell Blade. See SysMgmtPlus Release
Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs.
• ProviderSvcsBase: Health test command line enables -runtest and -runtest -a commands
to support configurable options -loop, -timer, -log, -error and -stress. Similar
functionality offered by diaglogd daemon (in the OnlineDiag bundle), will be obsoleted and
provided by the oserrlogd daemon (in the ProviderSvcsBase bundle). See HP-UX
ProviderSvcsBase Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for the September 2010 release.
• Software Distributor (SD): Includes defect fixes. See http://www.hp.com/go/sd.
• System Fault Management (SFM): Updated to revision C.07.01.xx.yy with additional support
for more robust inventory and error handling on newer platforms. Switching between SFM
and EMS modes is not available on newer platforms. Enhanced to support the following new
and updated property pages in HP SMH (see hpsmh(1M)): Blade; Memory; Cell Blade. See
SFM Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-online-docs.
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