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In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture
of how the March 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the December
2005 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see the indicated
chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2006 Release
Notes, available in its most current version at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2/. The following summaries are not exhaustive, so it strongly
recommended that you consult the HP-UX 11i Version 2
March 2006 Release Notes for information that is not included
here. Chapter 4: “Server-Specific
Information”. Hardware
Enablement Patch Bundle: New servers with the sx2000 chipset now qualified. HP Instant Support Enterprise
Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.043 to incorporate defect fixes. Networking and Mass Storage
Drivers HyprFabrc-00: Updated to support large user count. Erratum: At the
initial release of HP-UX 11i v2, the/opt/clic/bin/clic_probe superseded the /opt/clic/bin/clic_ping utility. scsiU320-00: Updated to version B.11.23.0603 with disablement of
Quick Arbitration and Selection (QAS), significantly reducing the
occurrence of any SCSI-related issues seen in a mixed speed disk
configuration. SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements. Added in December
2005 to support future cards. USB-00: Updated to version C.01.03.01 with various quality improvements
from previous releases, a dynamically managed device file system,
and USB mass storage encryption support.
New
Product: PCI Error Handling: Allows an HP-UX system to
avoid a Machine Check Abort (MCA) or a High Priority Machine Check
(HPMC) if a PCI error occurs. Now available on Software Pack media.
Chapter 5: “General
System Administration”. Distributed
Systems Administration Utilities: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes. Now delivered as a default-installed product on all OEs,
including the TCOE. Enterprise Cluster Master
Toolkit: Included documentation for version B.03.00 has been updated
to include support for the VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in selected
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles. Feature Enablement Patch
Bundle (FEATURE11i): Added new patches for VERITAS and Infiniband. HP Partitioning HP Global
Workload Manager: CMS updated to version A.01.01.02 with changes, new
features, and defect fixes for a more robust product.The CMS is
now delivered via HP Software Depot at http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot. HP Process Resource Manager:
Updated to version C.03.01 with integration with HP SIM and ability
to control shared memory. Now works inside HP Integrity Virtual
Machines. HP-UX Virtual Partitions:
Updated to version A.04.02 with flexible administration capabilities,
tape device support on PA-RISC servers, DRD integration, additional
CPU support, and customer-requested fixes. Purchased separately. HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated
to version A.03.01 with more flexibility in process placement, more
workload groups, and more management combinations. HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits:
Updated to version A.01.09 with an SAP Toolkit to simplify integration
between SAP and WLM. PRM Libraries: PRM-Sw-Krn fileset has been updated to version C.01.04 to incorporate
defect fixes.
HP Serviceguard: Included
documentation for version A.11.17 has been updated to include support
for the VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in selected HP Serviceguard
Storage Management Suite bundles. HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit:
Updated to incorporate a defect fix. HP System Management Homepage:
Updated to version A.2.2.2 with defect fixes as well as improved
event and hardware management. HP Systems Insight Manager:
Updated with support for integration with HP Storage Essentials
Enterprise Edition, integration with HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual
Machine Management Pack, and integration with HP ProLiant Essentials Server
Migration Pack. HP WBEM Services for HP-UX:
Updated to version A.02.00.09 to incorporate defect fixes. HP-UX Accounts for Users
and Groups tool: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel
Provider: Updated to version 11.23.0603.02 to incorporate defect
fixes. No new functionality. HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider:
Updated to version 11.23.005 to incorporate defect fixes. No new
functionality. HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider:
Updated to version 11.23.010 to incorporate defect fixes. No new
functionality Ignite-UX: Updated to version
C.6.7.x with defect fixes and security improvements. Online Diagnostics OnlineDiag Bundle: Updated to enable new HP servers. New
Product: SysFaultMgmt Bundle: Provides System Fault Management, a collection
of tools for monitoring the health of HP servers and receiving information
about hardware such as memory, CPU, power supplies, and cooling devices.
Quality Pack Patch Bundle:
Included in this release as a superset of the December 2005 HP-UX
11i v2 Quality Pack. Software Distributor: Updated
to incorporate defect fixes. Update-UX: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes. Utilization Provider: Updated
to version A.01.01 to provide defect fixes which enable utilization
data to be more reliable for resource partitions and systems that
contain more than 255 active disks.
Chapter 6: “Disk
and File Management”. HP CIFS
Server: Updated to 3.0d (version A.02.02) with fixes and functionality
from the new Samba base (version 3.0.14a), including support for
the idmap_rid facility and support for publishing printers in an MS
Windows 2000/2003 ADS domain, as well as other enhancements. HP OnlineJFS: Version 1.4
is now “customer-selectable” instead of “default-installed” as
in the previous release.
Chapter 7: “Internet
and Networking”. Mozilla
for HP-UX: Updated to version 1.7.12.01 with enhancements including improved
Asian font support, the Japanese Language Pack, and fixes for security vulnerabilities. New
Product: Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Version
B.07.10.10 added to HP-UX 11i v2 with Windows user synchronization,
get effective rights control, wide-area network replication, fractional
replication, and other features.
Chapter 8: “Security”. HP-UX
Host Intrusion Detection System: Updated to version 4.0 with new
features and enhancements, including support for reduction of alert
volume by aggregation, reduction of alert volume by monitoring only
critical files, the ability to specify critical users, and more. HP-UX Security Attributes
Configuration tool: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. OpenSSL: Has a new version
number due to a packaging change. No change in functionality.
Chapter 9: “Commands
and System Calls”. No changes
in this release.
Chapter 10: “Libraries
and Programming”. Java
2 Standard Edition Platform HP 3D
Technology for the Java™ 2 Standard Edition
Platform: Upon installation of the OEs, v1.3 will be removed by
the ObsJava13 bundle. HP-UX Java Development Kit
and HP-UX Java Runtime Environment for the Java™ 2
Platform Standard Edition (JDK/JRE): Version 5.0 updated to incorporate
defect fixes. Now included in the TCOE. ObsJava13 bundle will remove SDK/RTE and Plug-In 1.3. Java Out-of-Box: Updated
to incorporate defect fixes.
Perl: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes.
Chapter 11: “Internationalization”. No changes
in this release.
Chapter 12: “Other
Functionality”. No changes
in this release.
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