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In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture
of how the December 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the
May 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see the
indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 December
2005 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
December 2005 Release Notes for information that is
not included here. Chapter 2: “Introduction
to HP-UX 11i Version 2” . HP-UX
11i v2 Minimal Technical Operating Environment (MTOE): May 2005
was last release that included the Minimal Technical OE (MTOE).
After May 2005, the HP-UX 11i v2 MTOE is no longer available.
Chapter 4: “Server-Specific
Information” . Hardware
Enablement Patch Bundle (HWEnable11i): Added support for hp BladeSystems Itanium BL60p servers.
Several I/O driver bundles added or updated. HP Instant Support Enterprise
Edition (ISEE): Updated to incorporate defect fixes and feature
enhancements. “Networking
and Mass Storage Drivers” 10GigEthr-00: The ixgbe driver updated to version B.11.23.06 for December 2005.
With the installation of separately available patches, the driver
supports port-based steering multiqueue and TCP packet-reassembly
in the driver. FibrChanl-00: Updated to incorporate driver fixes. FibrChanl-01: Updated to version B.11.23.04.01 with defect fixes
and support for to-be-released AB378A and AB379A cards. GigEther-00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. RAID-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. scsiU320-00: Updated with quality and diagnostic improvements
for Ultra320 SCSI solutions. New
Product: SerialSCSI-00: Added to the HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environments to
support cards that will be released in the future. USB-00: Updated to version C.01.02.01 with quality improvements.
Supported Systems: HP-UX
11i v2 not supported on HP Workstations.
Chapter 5: “General
System Administration”. New Product: Distributed Systems Administration
Utilities: Improves manageability of distributed systems and Serviceguard
clusters. Enterprise Cluster Master
Toolkit: Updated to version B.03.00 with defect fixes and Support
for Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.l7 environment. Event Monitoring Services:
Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Will be deprecated post HP-UX
11i v3. Feature Enablement Patch
Bundle (FEATURE11i): Provides new patches required for vPars, VERITAS products,
Infiniband, and Serial SCSI functionality. GlancePlus Pak: Updated to
version C.04.50 with elimination of the dependency of ttd to have rpcbind or portmap running: support for both HTTP and HTTPS-based single
port communication; replacement of perfalarm by DCE-based alarm management daemon, alarmgen; new metrics and other enhancements. High Availability Monitors:
Updated to support the update of Event Monitoring Service (EMS). New
Product: HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider: Allows
HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) to display information about HP
systems that support HP Integrity Virtual Machines. Not invoked
directly by the user. New
Product: HP Integrity VM Support Library (VMGuestLib): Subset of the HP Integrity Virtual Machines API Library
used by HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider. HP Partitioning HP Global
Workload Manager: Central Management Server (CMS), one of the gWLM
components that was delivered on the AR media, has been removed
from the media. HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated
to version A.03.00.01 with cleaner installations and the ability
to manage a complex with mixed architectures. nPartition Provider: Updated
to version B.23.01.05.01 to add support for new cell-based HP servers. Partition Manager v2.0: Updated
to version B.23.02.01.02 to add support for new cell-based HP servers,
improvements under HP SIM and HP SMH, and defect fixes. New
Product: vPar Provider: Used by HP WBEM Services for
HP-UX to extract information about virtual partitions on the system.
HP Serviceguard: Updated
to version A.11.17 with support for HP-UX 11i Security Containment,
HP Fabric Clustering System for Infiniband, and Distributed Systems Administration
Utilities. Includes enhanced security, a new command option, and
a change in memory allocation, as well as other changes. HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit:
Updated to version A.11.23.04 to incorporate fixes for two defects. HP System Management Homepage
(SysMgmtWeb): Updated to version 2.2.1.x with integration of SAM Web-based applications; support
for legacy SAM X Launch; WBEM-based property pages for OS and software
information. HP Systems Insight Manager:
Updated to version 5.0 with numerous enhancements, including the
ability to view more information and perform more tasks; new CLI commands;
a First Time Wizard; support for Oracle databases; and other enhancements. HP WBEM Services for HP-UX:
Updated to version A.02.00.08 to incorporate defect fixes. New
Product: HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Web-based
tool (ugweb) allows the user to manage the local user accounts, NIS
user accounts and group accounts. HP-UX Kernel Configuration:
Now a plug-in tool in the HP System Management Homepage. TUI changed
from previous ObAM-based TUI. HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool:
Updated to version B11.23.05. The waconf(1M) command and the WEB-ADM fileset now obsolete and replaced by the HP System Management
Homepage, which now integrates the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool integrated. New
Product: HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Used by client
applications to determine information about Fibre Channel HBAs and
their properties. New
Product: HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces:
Used by client applications to determine 100bt and Gigabit links
available on the system and collect information about them. New
Product: HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Used by client applications
to determine information about the LVM via HP WBEM Services for
HP-UX. New
Product: HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Used by client applications
to determine information about SCSI HBAs present on the system. Ignite-UX: Updated to version
C.6.5.x with updated documentation, defect fixes, enhancements,
and support for VxVM 4.1. No longer supports HP-UX 11i v1.6 (B.11.22).
For December 2005, available only the AR DVD; it is not included
in the December 2005 Operating Environments. Obsolescence Bundle: Upon
update to December 2005, now removes MySQL in addition to other
obsolete products. Online Diagnostics: Updated
to include HPVM enablement, as well as integration of slview with HP System Management Homepage. Quality Pack Patch Bundle:
Included in this release as a superset of the May 2005 HP-UX 11i
v2 Quality Pack. Software Distributor: Updated
to incorporate defect fixes. SysMgmtBASE bundle: First added to the HP-UX 11i v2 OEs in May 2005,
provides the TUI framework for HP-UX Security Configuration tool
and HP-UX Kernel Configuration. Updated in December 2005 to incorporate
defect fixes. Software Package Builder:
Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Update-UX: Updated to version
B.11.23.0512.033. No longer supports update from HP-UX 11i v1.6
(B.11.22) to HP-UX 11iv2 December 2005 or later releases. New
Product: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) records system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval.
Chapter 6: “Disk
and File Management”. New Product: Disks and File Systems
(fsweb): Provides a GUI to HP-UX system administration tasks. New
Bundle: EnableVxFS: Provides libraries and commands for VXFS. HP CIFS Client: Updated to
version A.02.01 with a substantially revised and improved code base. HP CIFS Server: Updated to
3.0c (version A.02.01.02), which is based on Samba 3.0.7 and provides
minor enhancements and defect fixes, as well as the new features provided
in HP CIFS Server 3.0a (version A.02.01). New
Product: VERITAS File System (HP JFS/HP OnlineJFS): Version
4.1 now available with support for large file systems and large
files, as well as other features. New
Product: VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM): Version 4.1 now
available with enhancements including VERITAS Intelligent Storage
Provisioning Service, Cross-Platform Data Sharing, and Storage Expert,
as well as many other features.
Chapter 7: “Internet
and Networking”. HP-UX
Web Server Suite: HP-UX
Apache-based Web Server: Updated to version 2.0.54.03 as primarily
a bug fix release. HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet
Engine: Updated to version 5.5.9.03 with implementation of the Servlet
2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0 specifications. Designed to run on
JDK and later versions. HP-UX Webmin-based Admin:
Updated to version 1.070.05 as primarily a bug fix release.
New
Product: LDAP-UX Integration product: Uses LDAP to centralize
user, group and network information management in an LDAP directory.
Provides functionality to support migration from the NIS or NIS+
environment to an LDAP environment. Mozilla for HP-UX: Updated
to version 1.7.x with enhancements including improved Asian font support,
the Japanese Language Pack, and fixes for security vulnerabilities. Netscape Directory Server
for HP-UX: Updated to version B.06.21.30 with support for four-way
multi-master replication, support for fine-grained password policy,
new configuration attributes, and other features and defect fixes.
Chapter 8: “Security”. HP-UX 11i Security Containment provides
a highly secure, easy to maintain, and backwards-compatible environment
to deploy business applications. Now available on Software Pack
media. HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to
version A.03.05.12 with NOSYNC pre-enablement, RPC enhancements,
and defect fixes. HP-UX
Role-based Access Control: Allows you to distribute administrative responsibilities
by creating roles with appropriate authorizations and assigning them
to non-root users and groups. Now available on Software Pack media. HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated
to version A.04.00.003 with address binding for port forwarding
connections, remote binding control, hashing of host names and addresses,
and other changes. New
Product: HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration tool
(secweb): Provides a GUI and TUI for configuring the system-wide
and per-user values of security attributes of local and Network
Information Service (NIS) users.
Chapter 9: “Commands
and System Calls”. No changes
in this release.
Chapter 10: “Libraries
and Programming”. HP MLIB:
Updated to version 9.4 with quality enhancements. HP MPI: Updated to version 2.1.1 with several enhancements,
including additional supported interconnects, and improved gather
performance for TCP/IP, alltoall performance and other improvements. Java 2 Standard Edition Platform: HP-UX
Software Development Kit and Runtime Environment for the Java
™ 2 Standard Edition Platform (SDK/RTE) v1.3
and v1.4: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. New
Product: HP-UX JDK for the Java™ 2
Platform Standard Edition and HP-UX Java Runtime Environment (JDK/JRE)
5.0: New with the December 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v2. Java Out-of-Box: Updated
to incorporate defect fixes.
Judy Libraries: Updated to
version B.11.23.04.17 to incorporate packaging changes. Also now
removes empty MANPATH file that was created at product installation. Perl 5.8.3 build 809: Includes
better Unicode support and numeric accuracy, new I/O and thread
implementation, and other changes.
Chapter 11: “Internationalization” . No changes
in this release.
Chapter 12: “Other
Functionality”. No changes
in this release.
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