What’s New in the Original 11i Release?

Hard partitions supported on HP Superdome 16-way, 32-way, and 64-way. (See Chapter 4 “nPartition (Hard Partition) Systems”.)

Partition manager, a new system administration tool, supports the initial and ongoing configuration of systems that support hard partitions. (See “Partition Manager (parmgr)”.)

Lockable pages that experience repeated single-bit memory errors can now be removed. (See “Single-Bit Memory Error Handling Enhancement”.)

The Guardian Service Processor (GSP), a new console subsystem, now available. (See “Service Processor (GSP or MP)”.)

Graphics and Technical Computing Software supported on all PA-RISC workstations and servers. (See “Workstation Graphics Support”.)

Kernel parameters for CAE and EE Engineering workstation kernels optimized during installation or update. (See “Workstation Tuned Kernel Parameters”.)

The HP-UX operating system is now delivered as part of an HP-UX Operating Environment (OE), an integrated software solution comprised of the operating system and selected applications. (See “The HP-UX 11i Version 1 Operating Environments”.)

The Foundation HP-UX 11i OE, the standard Internet server environment for HP-UX systems, includes Java, the HP Apache-based Web Server, Netscape Communicator, and other applications. (See “HP-UX 11i Foundation Operating Environment ”.)

In addition to the Foundation HP-UX 11i OE, the HP-UX 11i Enterprise OE contains applications to enable an enterprise-level server. Applications include OnLineJFS 3.3, GlancePlus, MirrorDisk/UX, and others. (See “HP-UX 11i Enterprise Operating Environment (EOE)”.)

The HP-UX 11i Mission Critical OE contains both the HP-UX 11i Foundation OE and the HP-UX 11i Enterprise OE, as well as applications (such as MC/ServiceGuard and HP-UX Workload Manager) to enable a mission-critical server. (See “HP-UX 11i Mission Critical Operating Environment (MCOE)”.)

The HP-UX 11i Technical Computing OE contains applications to enable a technical workstation or technical server. (See “HP-UX 11i Technical Computing Operating Environment (TCOE)”.)

Online Addition and Replacement (OLAR) enables the adding and replacing of PCI I/O cards (adapters) while a system is running. (See “Online Addition and Replacement of Networking and Mass Storage Cards”.)

By eliminating driver installation and combining multiple drivers into one, the set-up or upgrade of networking and I/O products has been made easier. (See “Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers”.)

Gigabit Ethernet (PCI, HSC) provides the means for interfacing to a 1000Base-SX multimode fiber network. (See “Gigabit Ethernet Drivers”.)

Although EISA interface cards are supported on the HP-UX 11i 32-bit operating system, they are not supported on HP-UX 11i 64-bit operation.

HSC FDDI driver enhanced. (See “HSC FDDI Driver”.)

Cold install changed to support new media and the new Operating Environments. (See “Cold Install Changed”.)

Ignite-UX version B requires at least 64MB of RAM and no longer supports 10.01 and 10.10 machines for 11i. (See “Ignite-UX”.)

Update-UX command replaces swgettools to perform OS updates and add Operating Environments. (See “Update-UX”.)

Software Distributor changed in multiple ways, including enablement of multiple target management capability and POSIX enhancements. (See “Software Distributor (SD-UX)”.)

SD Patch Installation changed to provide more control over patch management. (See “SD-UX Changes to Patch Installation ”.)

System Administration Manager (SAM) enhanced to support new devices and features. (See “Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM)”.)

HP Distributed Print Service deprecated. (See “HP Distributed Print Service Deprecated”.)

Event Monitoring System (EMS) Hardware Monitors enabled to monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware products. (See “Diagnostics: EMS Hardware Monitors”.)

The command ioscan improved to provide clearer descriptions for most common PCI devices. (See “Improved ioscan Description Field for PCI Devices”.)

Gang scheduling for MPI applications and multi-threaded processes enabled. (See “HP-UX Gang Scheduling ”.)

CMA threads deprecated and kernel threads implemented. (See “Kernel Threads vs. CMA Threads”.)

Amount of private data space available increased. (See “Large Private Data Space”.

The creation of unique memory windows for shared objects now allowed for 32-bit processes. (See “Memory Windows”.)

Dynamic tunables enabled. (See “Dynamic Tunables”.)

System-V IPC message queue enhanced. (See “System-V IPC Message Queue Enhancement”.)

System-V IPC kernel tunable configuration parameter SEMMSL now a dynamic kernel tunable. (See “System-V IPC SEMMSL Dynamic Kernel Tunable”.)

SCSI Queue depth management enhanced. (See “SCSI Queue Depth Management”.)

Striping and mirroring for shared volume groups enabled. (See “Additional Support for Striping and Mirroring”.)

Journaled File System (JFS) upgraded to version 3.3 (See “New Version of Journaled File System (JFS)”.)

Network File System (NFS) now supported over TCP/IP in addition to running over User Datagram Protocol (UDP). (See “Network File System Support on TCP/IP”.)

Also added to NSF are loopback transport support, user-space threads, and enhancements to NFS server-side performance. (See “Other NFS Changes ”.)

New daemon, AutoFS, mounts and unmounts NFS file systems automatically with more reliability than automount. (See “Mounting and Unmounting NFS File Systems Automatically Using AutoFS”.)

HP Fibrechannel High Availability Disk and Closure added. (See “HP Fibrechannel High Availability Disk and Closure”.)

New version of sendmail, sendmail-8.9.3, included. (See “Sendmail-8.9.3 ”.)

New version of BIND, BIND 8.1.2, included. (See “BIND 8.1.2”.)

The rexecd and remshd services now use Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) for authentication. (See ““PAM-ized” rexecd and remshd ”.)

Dynamic Host Protocol (DHCP) enabled to perform updates to DDNS. (See “DHCP with Nonsecure DNS Updates”.)

Network Transport (including ifconfig, ndd, nestat, virtual IP (VIP) address, setsockopt, T_OPTMGMT) enhanced. (See “Network Transport”.)

New version of FTPD enhanced with new features. (See “New Versions of FTPD ”.)

STREAMS/UX enhanced. (See “STREAMS/UX”.)

Low Bandwidth X Extension (LBX) improves performance on wide-area networks and on slower speed connections. (See “Low Bandwidth X Extension (LBX)”.)

Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS API) introduced to provide security independent of underlying security mechanisms and communication protocols. (See “Generic Security Services for Developing Secure Applications”.)

Program stacks can now be execute-protected to guard against buffer overflow attacks. (See “Execute Protected Stacks”.)

New, convenient way to customize security features enabled. (See “Configurable Security Features”.)

Password history enabled to discourage users from re-using previous passwords. (See “Password History Feature on Trusted Systems”.)

Kerberos Client Software now provided to enable integrating HP-UX into a secure enterprise environment. (See “Kerberos Client Software”.)

HP-UX Software Transition Kit (STK) aids in transitioning software to 32-bit or 64-bit versions of HP-UX 11i. (See “HP-UX Software Transition Kit (STK) ”.)

New ANSI-compliant Standard C++ library included. (See “aC++ Runtime (libCsup*, libstd*, libstream*, librwtool*) ”.)

System library libc enhanced, including performance improvements to ftw(), nftw(), and malloc(). (See “Changes to libc” and “Overall libc Performance Tuning”.)

The libcres.a library, a small archive library, added to provide customers running performance-critical applications with the benefit of a static link. (See “The libcres.a Library”.)

Linker and Object File Tools enhanced. (See “Linker and Object File Tools (ld, crt0.o, dld.sl, libdld.sl, chatr,
and odump)”.)

The linker/dld interface enhanced. (See “Changes to the linker/dld Interface”.)

HP Distributed Computing Environment (HP DCE/9000) version 1.8 provides framework to develop, administer, and use distributed applications. (See “HP DCE/9000”.)

Extensions to pstat() system call enables system management and measurement tools to eliminate dependency on the /dev/kmem pseudo-driver. (See “Extensions to pstat()”.)

New parameters for confstr() defined. (See “Machine Identifier Changes to confstr ”.)

Improved interoperability enabled through system level support provided for the Unicode 2.1/ISO-10646 character set. (See “Unicode Character Set ”.)

Improved interoperability enabled through corrected character converter mappings. (See “Corrected Character Mappings to iconv(1) and iconv(3C)”.)

Enhancements provided to allow Euro display, input, and processing capabilities. (See “EURO (ISO 8859-15 Locales)” and “Euro - ISO 10646/Unicode Support”.)

Asian enhancements provided, including new Asian codesets, UDC (User Defined Characters, or Gaiji), printing, and codeset conversions with mainframe codesets. (See “Asian System Environment (ASE)”.)

Enhancements provided to the printer capabilities of Japanese System Environment; Korean System Environment; Simplified-Chinese System Environment; Traditional-Chinese System Environment. (See “Enhanced Print Capabilities in the Asian System Environment”.)

New set of multibyte APIs added to libc to follow C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999) and Unix98 specifications. (See “Multibyte Support Extension and Unix98 Support”.)