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

• Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs
to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible
products and/or drivers.
• Online Diagnostics product: Includes several enhancements and features, including support
for the Interface Expansion Program (IEP) for large username, groupname, PIDs, and nproc;
support of additional features of HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars), such as support for notification
of events due to dynamic CPU migration; support for agile view of devices, for reporting
extended hardware path of devices, for reporting recovered Machine Check Aborts; and
other features and changes.
• SCSI Kernel Tunables: scsi_maxphys, scsi_max_qdepth anddefault_disk_ir kernel
tunables are obsolete.
• Software Distributor: Updated to version 11.31 with support for HP-UX 11i v3-unique features
including large pid, long usernames and group names; and improved support for high level
software deployment tools such as Software Manager, update-ux, and future tools. Includes
defect fixes.
• Software Package Builder: Added new policy files that include the expansion of the acceptable
category tags, the addition of the is_oe attribute, and changes to the architecture and
os_release attribute rules.
• System Administration Manager (SAM): Deprecated. The smh command is recommended,
but sam command will continue to be available. Some functional areas previously available
are obsoleted.
• System Administration Manager (SAM) Auditing and Security Functional Area: System Security
Policies subarea of SAM is replaced with the HP--UX Security Attributes Configuration tool;
Audited NIS+ Users subarea is obsolete.
• System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters Functional Area: Launch point in
X/ObAM-based GUI mode is now via the HP System Management Homepage.
• System Administration Management Tool Changes: SAM and HP System Management
Homepage: System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i v3. HP System
Management Homepage (HP SMH) is the system administration tool for managing HP-UX 11i.
HP SMH provides web-based systems management functionality, at-a-glance monitoring of
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.
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