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

◦ Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.08.02.01 to support VSE Management
Software and HP Insight Dynamics - VSE version 4.1 Update 1.
◦ vPar Provider: Now supported on HP Integrity Superdome systems. Also incorporates
defect fixes.
• HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Enhanced to provide Modular Package support.
• HP System Management Homepage: Now supports IPv6, Internet Explorer v8, and long-length
passwords in shadow password mode. Also incorporates defect fixes.
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Includes new hardware support and enhanced providers support.
• HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb): Supports long passwords up to 255 characters
when in shadow password mode.
• HP-UX Disks and File Systems (fsweb): With the enhancements in this version, you can now
take advantage of the improvements being done in the higher versions of volume groups. Also
incorporates defect fixes.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb): Incorporates defect fixes.
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager (pdweb): Offers the capability to enable and disable SAS
(Serial Attached SCSI) adapters.
• HP-UX Software Assistant: Includes improvements in the integration with HP-SIM.
• Ignite-UX: Allows NFS to replace TFTP when downloading files from the Ignite-UX server.
Guided Installation User Interface Option has been removed.
• New: ISOIMAGE-ENH: Provided in a new DLKM module. Required to mount, read and umount
the ISO Image file. Software Pack product.
• Logical Volume Manager: Includes new command (vgmove), enhancements to pvmove, and
command enhancements for shared volume groups, plus support for forced deactivation.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Two additional attributes
are included for modifying IP attributes in the NIC area.
• Online Diagnostics: Starting from September 2009, OnlineDiag will not be supported on
newer platforms. System Fault Management (SysFaultMgmt) will be the default monitoring
mode on both older and newer platforms. This release includes defect fixes.
• Printer Management (web-based): Updated with defect fixes.
• PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): New command line tool, cprop, provides equivalent information of
GUI. New "Health Test" feature is supported when ProviderSvcsBase is installed.
• ProviderSvcsBase: Provides an infrastructure for running health tests as a functionality support
for WBEM Providers. Also enables the providers to update, retrieve, and archive events from
postgress database.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for September 2009.
• New:: RC Enhancement (boot time improvement in HP-UX commands and rc scripts): By
installing specific products, you may see improved boot time.
• Software Distributor: IPv6 support is enabled along with defect fixes.
• Software Package Builder: Enhanced to enforce HP-UX Packaging Policy Rules related to
requisites.
• System Fault Management: Introduces new providers, includes Logviewer enhancement, new
property pages, health test, and more.
• Tune-N-Tools: Added another tunable maxssiz to the list of kernel parameters. Added new
prebind(1M) tool, which can be used to improve the startup time of frequently used shared
executables.
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