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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 sections in the remainder of this document.

Chapter 4 “Server-Specific Information”. 

  • Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle: New servers with the sx2000 chipset now qualified. (See “Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle ”.)

  • HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.043 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition”.)

  • “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 Erratum: At the initial release of HP-UX 11i v2, the/opt/clic/bin/clic_probe superseded the /opt/clic/bin/clic_ping utility. (See “HyprFabrc-00”.)

    • 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. (See “scsiU320-00”.)

    • SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements. Added in December 2005 to support future cards. (See “SerialSCSI-00”.)

    • 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. (See “USB-00”.)

  • 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. (See “PCI Error Handling”.)

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. (See “Distributed Systems Administration Utilities ”.)

  • 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. (See “Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit”.)

  • Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Added new patches for VERITAS and Infiniband. (See “Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i)”.)

  • “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. (See “HP Global Workload Manager”.)

    • 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. (See “HP Process Resource Manager”.)

    • 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. Purchasable separately. (See “HP-UX Virtual Partitions”.)

    • HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.01 with more flexibility in process placement, more workload groups, and more management combinations. (See “HP-UX Workload Manager”.)

    • HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version A.01.09 with an SAP Toolkit to simplify integration between SAP and WLM. (See “HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits”.)

    • PRM Libraries: PRM-Sw-Krn fileset has been updated to version C.01.04 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “PRM Libraries”.)

  • 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. Serviceguard A.11.17 on HP-UX 11i v2 and A.11.16 on HP-UX 11i v1 are the last versions that will support RS232 for heartbeat messaging. (See “HP Serviceguard”.)

  • HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to incorporate a defect fix. (See “HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit”.)

  • HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.2 with defect fixes as well as improved event and hardware management. (See “HP System Management Homepage”.)

  • 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. (See “HP Systems Insight Manager ”.)

  • HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.09 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP WBEM Services for HP-UX”.)

  • HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups tool: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups”.)

  • HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version 11.23.0603.02 to incorporate defect fixes. No new functionality. (See “HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider”.)

  • HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Updated to version 11.23.005 to incorporate defect fixes. No new functionality. (See “HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider ”.)

  • HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.23.010 to incorporate defect fixes. No new functionality. (See “HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider”.)

  • Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.6.7.x with a defect fix and security improvements. (See “Ignite-UX ”.)

  • “Online Diagnostics”

    • OnlineDiag Bundle: Updated to enable new HP servers. (See “OnlineDiag Bundle”.)

    • New Product: SysFaultMgmt Bundle: Contains System Fault Management, which operates in a WBEM environment and provides 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. (See “SysFaultMgmt Bundle”.)

  • Quality Pack Patch Bundle: Included in this release as a superset of the December 2005 HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack. (See “Quality Pack Patch Bundle”.)

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

  • Update-UX: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Update-UX”.)

  • 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. (See “Utilization Provider”.)

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. (See “HP CIFS Server”.)

  • HP OnlineJFS: Version 1.4 is now “customer-selectable” instead of “default-installed” as in the previous release. (See “VERITAS File System (Base-VXFS and HP OnlineJFS)”.)

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. (See “Mozilla Web Browser”.)

  • 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. (See “Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX ”.)

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. (See “HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System”.)

  • HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration tool: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. (See “HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration”.)

  • OpenSSL: Has a new version number due to a packaging change. No change in functionality. (See “OpenSSL ”.)

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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