What is New in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 Release

CommonIO: Updated with quality improvements. See “CommonIO”.

New: Dynamic P-States Feature: Adds the ability to control processor performance from within HP-UX, allowing systems to conserve power when not fully loaded. Requires Intel® Itanium® 9100 series or later processors. See “Dynamic P-States Feature”.

Hardware Enablement Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i): Includes support for new PCI-Express I/O adapters in HP Integrity Servers, and HP-UX support for HP servers with PA8900 processors and the sx2000 chipset. Also includes new HP-UX 11i v3 patches that improve PCIe Error Recovery (ER) and support of new PCIe devices. New patches were also added for CPU and memory On-Line Addition/Deletion (OLAD) for future HP platforms. See “Hardware Enablement Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3”.

Mass Storage Stack: Enhancements include congestion control, server manageability, ease-of-use, and I/O performance. See “Mass Storage Stack”.

“Networking and Mass Storage Drivers”

“Utility Pricing Solutions”

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: You can benefit from the ease-of-use that the web-based interface provides for configuration synchronization and consolidated logging. See “Distributed Systems Administration Utilities”.

Dynamic Root Disk: You will be able to update your OE level on the clone while your original system remains up and running. Once the update on the clone is done, you can boot the clone and keep your original image as backup. Defect fixes and packaging changes involving run time checks and dependencies are also being introduced. See “Dynamic Root Disk”.

Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Version B.05.00 includes support for Modular Packages, Oracle 11g R1, Oracle 10g R2 ASM on Itanium servers, and more. See “Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit”.

Event Monitoring Service: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “Event Monitoring Service”.

Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3 with patches that enhance or provide new core features (including performance improvements) and enable support for improved dump time and dump analysis tools, file system enhancements including MemFS, performance improvements for multithreaded applications, power minimization and management enhancements, Internationalization improvements, and many other enhancements. See “Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i)”.

FirstBoot: Updated to support Dynamic Root Disk (DRD). See “FIRSTBOOT”.

High Availability Monitors: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “High Availability Monitors”.

“HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment”

HP Serviceguard: Version A.11.19 provides faster failover, improved cluster and package uptime, more robust network monitoring, greater scope and flexibility in network configuration, and more. See “HP Serviceguard”.

HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to incorporate a set of defect fixes. See “HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit”.

HP System Management Homepage: Provides better user experience by offering custom views - icon and list, and controls to determine settings such as session timeout and login page display. Additionally, you can now determine software dependency using the new smhassist command. See “HP System Management Homepage”.

HP Systems Insight Manager: Version 5.3 includes support for display of IPv6 addresses, improved Linux identification, improved discovery and identification of ESX hosts, and more. HP Insight Power Manager no longer contained by HP SIM version 5.3 and later. See “HP Systems Insight Manager ”.

HP-UX Disks and File Systems (fsweb): You can now perform backup and recovery tasks using a web-based interface, and can resize VxFS 5.0 without unmounting the file system. Reporting and auditing of changes to Veritas file systems is improved. With the newly available file system consistency check feature, you are better equipped to diagnose and manage corrupted file systems. See “HP-UX Disks and File Systems (fsweb)”.

HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb)”.

HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager (pdweb): Offers additional diagnostics features for Fibre Channel (FC) adapters. See “HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager (pdweb)”.

HP-UX Software Assistant: Updated to version C.02.11. Now allows you to select the analyzers to be used when generating reports within HP SIM and now supports Java™ SE6. And more. See “HP-UX Software Assistant”.

iCAP Manager: Updated to provide configuration capabilities for Instant Capacity on a single system. Provides capability to apply an Instant Capacity codeword, modify Instant Capacity properties, and change the number of active cores on the system. See “iCAP Manager”.

Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.8. Includes improved Ignite and vPars interaction on 11i v3, ability to avoid use of TFTP networking, ability to use Ignite on a network that has IPV6 enabled, and more. See “Ignite-UX”.

Logical Volume Manager: Includes vgmodify command enhancements that enable you to handle the physical volume size changes and modify configuration parameters of an existing LVM volume group belonging on all supported volume group versions. Also includes new command, vgversion, which enables you to take advantage of the improvements in volume group Version 2.0 and higher, and to get higher limits, in-place volume group migration from 1.0 to 2.0 and higher. Plus much more. See “Logical Volume Manager”.

Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: You can now use the HP SMH web interface for managing IPv6 neighbor discovery cache. See “Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration”.

Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed. Is automatically selected for updates. During the update process selected obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers are removed. See “Obsolescence Bundle”.

Online Diagnostics: Updated to support new and future devices, and to incorporate defect fixes. Has new pre-requisite. See “Online Diagnostics”.

Printer Management (web-based): Includes defect fixes. See “Printer Management (web-based)”.

New: PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus): Enhances the property pages of HP SMH by adding additional details and introducing dynamic capability to the web page. Newly added as a required (always-installed) product in all OEs. See “PropPlus (SysMgmtPlus)”.

New: ProviderSvcsBase: Provides a new logging daemon that reads error log records from the HP-UX kernel and stores them in the circular log files, which can be read by user space processes. Upon storing the error records in log files, the daemon sends EVM notification to the clients that are interested in reading the error logs. See “ProviderSvcsBase”.

Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for the March 2009 OEUR. See “ Quality Pack Patch Bundles”.

Software Distributor (SD): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Now delivered in the SysMgmtMin bundle instead of the SwMgmtMin bundle. See “Software Distributor (SD)”.

Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “Software Package Builder ”.

System Fault Management: With new CIMUtil command, one can enumerate instances related to various devices and create filters, handlers, and subscriptions that SFM supports. No longer supports storage disks; instead, they are supported by DAS Provider. Has new pre-requisite See “System Fault Management”.

Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Updated to reflect defect fixes. There are no new features or functionality in update-ux. See “Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS”.

“WBEM Services and Providers”

New: MemFS: A memory-based filesystem that provides fast access to temporary files by storing them in main memory. Software Pack product. See “MemFS”.

ONCplus: Updated to version B.11.31.06.01. Delivers IPv6 support for the rpc.rquotad, rpc.rstatd, rpc.sprayd, rup, and spray commands and daemons. Also delivers ONC 2.5 functionality for the NFSv2 and NFSv3 Client. See “ONCplus”.

Firefox, FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.16. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation. See “Browsers”.

Thunderbird, ThunderbirdSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.16. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation. See “Browsers”.

HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0j version A.02.03.04. Contains the security fix for CVE-2008-1105 and defect fixes. See “HP CIFS Server”.

HP-UX Auto Port Aggregation: Supports the use of Internet Protocol over InfiniBand (IPoIB) interfaces to create failover groups (LAN_MONITOR mode). See “HP-UX Auto Port Aggregation”.

“HP-UX Web Server Suite”

“Internet Services”

LDAP-UX Integration: Provides several fixes, plus NGROUP support and Windows 2008 Support. See “LDAP-UX Integration ”.

Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Updated to version B.08.00 with several enhancements, including stronger Hashed Password Storage support, improved SASL support for Kerberos Authentication, file hierarchy system support, and more. See “Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX”.

HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration (secweb): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration (secweb)”.

HP-UX Bastille: Updated to version B.3.1.01. Expanded security hardening choices in this major revision of Bastille allow you to further lockdown your systems in order to align with the latest CIS Benchmark for HP-UX (or other similar security hardening standards). See “HP-UX Bastille and Install Time Security”.

HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to version A.11.31.16. Includes performance improvements, new command option for ipfstat, and defect fixes. See “HP-UX IPFilter”.

New: HP-UX Password Hash Infrastructure for HP-UX 11i v3: Enhances the security on HP-UX 11i v3. Provides a new, SHA512-based algorithm for user password hashes as an alternative to the traditional, DES-based password hash algorithm. Only available on systems with shadowed passwords. Software Pack product. See “HP-UX Password Hash Infrastructure for HP-UX 11i v3”.

HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.05.00.026. Based on OpenSSH5.1p1 and includes several new features and defect fixes. See “HP-UX Secure Shell”.

New: HP-UX Security Containment Extensions: Simplifies the configuration of application containment and enables compartment login restrictions for enhanced application stacking and workload consolidation. See “HP-UX Security Containment Extensions”.

HP-UX Software Assistant: Updated to version C.02.11. Now allows you to select the analyzers to be used when generating reports within HP SIM and now supports Java™ SE6. And more. See “HP-UX Software Assistant”.

New: Kerberos Client (KRB5CLIENT): Helps to provide Kerberos authentication and strong cryptography for secure communication over the network. Software Pack product. See “Kerberos Client”.

OpenSSL: Provides enhanced security features, additional public-key encryptions, additional hardware ENGINES. Includes defect fixes. See “OpenSSL”.

New: CpioCmdEnh: Can archive and extract files with UID and GID > 60K. Software Pack product. See “CpioCmdEnh”.

diskowner(1M) Command: Enhanced to identify the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) partitions present on the disk. Enhanced to list all subsystem names that are all using the specified path. See “diskowner(1M) Command”.

ioscan(1M): New option can produce a compact listing which includes alias_path property. See “ioscan(1M)”.

mediainit(1) Command: New option, -S, scrubs the disk media content with a set of patterns so that retrieval of its content becomes more difficult. See “mediainit(1) Command”.

New: PAX-ENH: With this enhancement, the pax(1) command supports backup of ACLs and usage of graph files. Software Pack product. See “PAX-ENH”.

“Java 2 Standard Edition Platform”

New: Libc Enhancement: Contains new APIs to get instantaneous thread time consumption statistics for bound threads. See “Libc Enhancement”.

Perl: Has moved from ActivePerl to OpenSource Perl on HP-UX. See “Perl”.

pthread Library: New API, pthread_yield(3T), is provided. Enables the unbound thread to yield in user space (yielding between user threads). See “pthread Library”.

MallocNextGen: Applications that allocate many large blocks of size greater than 128 KB may see improved memory utilization. See “MallocNextGen”.

New: HP-UX Parallel Umounts (UmountallEnh): A multi-threaded umountall feature that unmounts all or selected filesystems in parallel. Software Pack product. See “HP-UX Parallel Umounts (UmountallEnh)”.

Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA): Patches have been delivered in the March 2009 FEATURE11i patch bundle to enable future support of the Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA) feature. Some patches also include changes for other features and defect fixes. See “Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA)”.