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In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the September 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the June 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2.

For further information, see the indicated sections in the remainder of this document.

Chapter 4 “Hardware-Specific Information”. 

Chapter 5 “General System Administration”. 

  • Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Updated to V1.2 with updated and enhanced features to csync_wizard, enhanced consolidated logging, and a new command, cwall, as well as other changes. (See “Distributed Systems Administration Utilities”.)

  • Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Added new patches for HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM), HPDesktopDev, and Veritas products. (See “Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i)”.)

  • HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VMProvider): Updated to version A.01.20.69 with support for Windows on Integrity as well as HP-UX guests. (See “HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider”.)

  • HP Integrity VM Support Library (VMGuestLib): Updated to version A.01.20.69 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP Integrity VM Support Library”.)

  • “HP Partitioning”

    • HP Global Workload Manager: Updated to version A.02.50.00.x with ability to nest partitions (with gWLM managing resources for all the partition types); ability to display and compare previous configurations; and ability to use Java JRE/JDK 1.4.2 or Java 1.5 (5.0); as well as other changes. (See “HP Global Workload Manager”.)

    • HP Process Resource Manager: Updated to version C.03.02 with HP System Management Homepage integration, ability to map UNIX groups to PRM groups, and extended regular expressions in alternate names for application records. (See “HP Process Resource Manager”.)

    • HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Provides tape device support on version A.04.03. Purchased separately. (See “HP-UX Virtual Partitions”.)

    • HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.02 with ability to map UNIX groups to workload groups, extended regular expressions in alternate names for application records, and other changes. (See “HP-UX Workload Manager”.)

    • HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version A.01.10 with the removal of Pay Per Use Toolkit, including its utilitydc command. Bundle name has changed from T1302AA to WLMToolkits. (See “HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits”.)

    • nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.23.01.06.02 with the ability to enable and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have processors that are Hyper-Threading-capable. (See “nPartition Provider”.)

    • PRMKernelSW (formerly PRM Libraries): Name has changed from “PRM Libraries” to “PRMKernelSW.” No other changes. (See “PRMKernelSW (formerly PRM Libraries)”.)

    • PRMLibraries: Updated to version C.03.02. Now contains the PRM API. Bundle name is PRMLibraries. Previous content now in the PRMKernelSW product. (See “PRMLibraries”.)

  • HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.23.06 with a fix for a problem with the HA-NFS File Lock Migration script, nfs.flm. (See “HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit”.)

  • HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.4.x to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP System Management Homepage”.)

  • HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated with support for HP BladeSystem C-Class blade and enclosure, delivery of the HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager 2.1, and defect fixes. (See “HP Systems Insight Manager ”.)

  • HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.11 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP WBEM Services for HP-UX”.)

  • HP-UX IPQoS: Will be removed by the Obsolescence Bundle upon update from HP-UX 11i v1 to HP-UX 11i v2. To continue using, you can download product free from Software Depot. (See “Obsolescence Bundle”.)

  • HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version 11.23.0609.02 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider”.)

  • HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Updated to version 11.23.007 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider”.)

  • HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.23.050 to incorporate defect fixes, as well as new functionality to provide more management information to the upper layers. (See “HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider”.)

  • Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.6.9.x with support for system recovery and system cloning of systems using VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 5.0 (cold install of systems with VxFS 5.0 and VxVM 5.0 not supported); compression of install kernels on B.11.23; support for new hardware enabled by the HP-UX release. (See “Ignite-UX”.)

  • “Online Diagnostics”

    • OnlineDiag Bundle: Updated with support for legacy functionality of PCI-express host bridge adapter on Zx2 platforms, as well as support for other, future cards. (See “OnlineDiag Bundle”.)

    • SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management: Updated with support for new platforms and to incorporate defect fixes. (See “SysFaultMgmt Bundle”.)

  • Quality Pack Patch Bundle: Included in this release as a superset of the March 2006 HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack. Not updated in June 2006. (See “Quality Pack Patch Bundle”.)

  • System Administration Manager: sam(1M) command has been deprecated and is planned for future obsolescence. (See “System Administration Manager”.)

  • Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Software Distributor”.)

  • Update-Ux: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. No new features or functionality. (See “Update-UX”.)

  • Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.04.x to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Utilization Provider”.)

Chapter 6 “Disk and File Management”. 

Chapter 7 “Internet and Networking”. 

  • New Products: Firefox/Firefox Source: Web browser includes Firefox 1.5.x changes from the Mozilla Foundation. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported in Firefox 1.5.0.0 from the Mozilla Foundation. (See “Browsers”.)

  • New Products: GTK/GTK Source: Added to support FireFox/Thunderbird. (See “Browsers”.)

  • GTK+ Libraries: Updated to incorporate a packaging change. (See “Browsers”.)

  • Mozilla Web Browser: Updated to version 1.7.12.01.x to incorporate a packaging change. (See “Browsers”.)

  • New Products: Thunderbird/Thunderbird Source: Supported email client on HP-UX, provides online browsing and searching tools for HP-UX Integrity and PA-RISC customers. (See “Browsers”.)

Chapter 8 “Security”. 

  • PAM Kerberos: Now delivered on the HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environments. Version 1.24 includes a new error message for pamkrbval(1M), better troubleshooting, and other changes. Bundle name has changed from J5849AA to PAMKerberos. (See “PAM Kerberos”.)

  • HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.30.007 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP-UX Secure Shell ”.)

Chapter 9 “Commands and System Calls”. 

  • No changes in this release.

Chapter 10 “Libraries and Programming”. 

Chapter 11 “Internationalization”. 

  • No changes in this release.

Chapter 12 “Other Functionality”. 

  • No changes in this release.



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