What is New in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2008 Release

Original HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments (OEs): The March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3 is the last full Operating Environments Update Release (OEUR) release provided for the original HP-UX 11i OEs.

New: HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments: With the March 2008 release, HP presents a set of new Operating Environments for HP-UX 11i v3. These new OEs provide a richer set of products and improved choices over the original set of HP-UX 11i OEs.

Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v3 Core Enhancements): Several Software Pack products are available in the Operating Environments as optional products.

New: Graphics: Newly delivered as an optional product in the HP-UX 11i v3 BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.

Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle (HWEnable11i) for HP-UX 11i v3: Provides 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. Includes new patches that enable the HP Insight Power Manager (IPM) for supported systems with Intel® Itanium® processors 9100 series. Also includes patches that enable the PCI-express Error Recovery (PCIe-ER) functionality on HP Integrity servers with the sx2000 chipset.

HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.520.22.05. Provides minor defect fixes. HP Runner is no longer bundled with HP ISEE installations.

I/O Subsystem: The rmsf command supports the -H option with the -x option to remove stale device special files associated with a specific hardware path. Adding or deleting CPUs redistributes I/O interrupts more equitably across the CPUs. And more.

Mass Storage Stack: Offers new performance and usability options to manage multi-pathed disks and disk arrays, and more.

Networking and Mass Storage Drivers

New: Proximity Topology: Provides a mechanism to programmatically determine a system's proximity topology in order to make informed decisions to minimize cache-to-cache latency.

Utility Pricing Solutions

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Supports cross subnet Serviceguard configurations.

Dynamic Root Disk (DRD): Supports cloning of a VxVM root on HP-UX 11i v3. Introduces the drd status command, which allows the user to easily view clone information on the system.

New: EMSWeb: Event Monitoring Service (on SAM) is now available as EMSWeb tool on the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH). Provides both web-based GUI and TUI.

Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Newly added as a recommended product to the HA-OE and DC-OE. Supports Storage Management Suite version 2.0 on HP-UX 11i v3.

Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3 with new patches that enhance core features (including performance) and enable the support of the vPars, Version 2.0 LVM volume groups, Integrity VM (HPVM), and new core products.

New: HP Caliper: A general-purpose performance analysis tool for applications, processes, and systems. Allows you to understand the performance and execution of an application and to identify ways to improve its run-time performance. Newly added as a recommended product to the BOE, HA-OE, VSE-OE, DC-OE.

HP GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version 4.70. A set of new metrics have been added in HP Performance Agent.

Hp Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment

HP Serviceguard: Now delivered as a recommended product in the HA-OE and DC-OE. Other updates available independent of the OEs.

HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Documentation updated to include information about support for Veritas Cluster File System (CFS).

HP System Management Homepage for HP-UX: Updated to version A.2.2.8 to incorporate defect fixes.

HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to version 5.2. Provides ability to discover all nPars in a complex, including those not currently active, from information gathered in one nPar and the ability to discover all vPars in a vparmonitor, including those not currently active, from information gathered in one vPar. New Manage Communications feature enables you to troubleshoot communication problems between the CMS and the managed systems. Includes much more.

HP-UX Disks and File Systems: LVM operations are more scalable now because of the enhanced limits on VGs, LVs, and PVs. Includes other changes.

HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Provides two new features: manage kernel configuration and restore the kernel configuration values of tunables and modules from the previous boot.

Ignite-UX: Version C.7.5 includes recovery support for Agile SAS addressing, improved small memory install performance, support for new hardware.

Logical Volume Manager: This release of LVM supports two versions of volume groups. Version 2.0, which is new in the March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3, enables the configuration of larger volume groups, logical volumes, physical volumes, and other parameters.

New: MirrorDisk/UX: Is the mirroring component of Logical Volume Manager, and prevents data loss due to disk failures by maintaining multiple copies of data on separate disks. Newly delivered as an recommended product in the VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.

Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

New: NUMA policy is a tunable and a set of related kernel enhancements that exploit the localities within platforms having a Non-Uniform Memory Architecture. This contrasts with the default symmetric policy that treats all platform resources equally.

Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers, including TechSysConf.

Online Diagnostics: Supports new I/O cards, added support for handling PCI-express errors, provides support for hot pluggable disks, and more.

Printer Management tool: Now provides the Text User Interface in addition to the existing Graphical User Interface.

Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Stable, defect-fix patch bundles for the OS and applications. In this release, both the Base Quality Pack bundle and the Applications Quality Pack bundle are provided.

Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

System Fault Management: Now the default monitoring mode. Supports PCI Express interface events on selected systems. New providers are introduced; MP Provider is enhanced. More enhancements are included, as well as defect fixes.

Update-UX: Supports the new OEs: BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, DC-OE. No new features or functionality in update-ux.

WBEM Services and Providers

Firefox, FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.4. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation.

New: HP Auto Port Aggregation: Added to as an recommended product to the BOE, HA-OE, VSE-OE, DC-OE. Is a software product that creates link aggregates, often called “trunks,” which provide a logical grouping of two or more physical ports into a single “fat pipe.” This port arrangement provides more data bandwidth than would otherwise be available. In addition, HP APA provides automatic link failure detection and recovery, and optional support for load balancing of network traffic across all of the links in the link aggregate.

HP-UX Web Server Suite

Internet Services: Select Internet Services now updated through OEURs.

LDAP-UX Integration: Version B.04.15 provides new LDAP user/group command-line tools.

Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Version B.07.10.30.01 mainly provides a SD defect fix.

Thunderbird, ThunderbirdSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.6. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation.

HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration: You will have access to both the Audit Configuration functional area of legacy SAM and the auditing functionality in the HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration tool in HP SMH. Includes defect fixes.

New: HP-UX Auditing System Extensions: Provides enhancements to the existing HP-UX auditing system, audit(5). Offers tools to configure and enforce the data filtering policy for auditable file operations on your system. Policy is rule-based and can be customized for different file system partitions. Delivered as an optional product on all OEs.

HP-UX Bastille: Updated to version B.3.0.31 incorporate defect fixes.

HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to version 15.01 (A.11.31.15.01). Support for IPv6 interfaces; Dynamic Connection Allocation (DCA) feature and ipftest utility now support IPv6 rules; and more.

New: HP-UX Role-based Access Control Extension: Introduces a set of privilege shells, allowing a non-root user to automatically invoke privrun when needed by simply configuring a privilege shell as their default shell. Includes integration with HP System Management Homepage and integration of access control logic directly into select commands. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.

HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.70.023. The sshd daemon defaults to SSH Protocol 2 in new installations; SSH channel window size has been increased; ssh command and sshd daemon now preserve MAC contexts between packets; new MAC algorithm has been added; and more.

HP-UX Software Assistant: Has replaced Security Patch Check. Messages indicating the deprecation of Security Patch Check will be displayed when the Security Patch Check tool is invoked. Support for Security Patch Check will be terminated on November 1, 2008.

OpenSSL: Contains some important defect fixes.

intctl(1M) and intrbald(1M) Commands: Enhanced to allow manual and automatic interrupt balancing based on user configuration files, with a choice of balancing algorithms.

ioscan(1M) Command: Enhanced to show a new driver property that indicates if the driver supports online instance number replacement.

mpsched(1) Command: Enhanced so you can now change the affinity of a thread/light weight process to a particular SPU or locality domain. You can also query the binding of a light-weight process or unbind the same.

rmsf(1M) Command: Enhanced to support Critical Resource Analysis (CRA) on a node or special file before deleting it, and to support specifying a stale I/O node by hardware path.

rtsched(1) Command: Enhanced to allow the change of the real time priority and/or scheduling policy of a thread/light weight process with the -G option.

New: aC++ Linker Driver (aCC_link): Invokes the HP-UX linker. Command is made available for linking aC++ objects for deployment on end-user systems. Explicitly disallows certain aCC(1) options used to compile. Newly delivered as a recommended product on the BOE, HA-OE, VSE-OE, and DC-OE.

New: Copy-On-Write Functionality for Private Memory Objects: Provides copy-on-write functionality for privately mapped files, private segments of child process after fork(2) and private segments locked by mlock(2).

New: getenv Performance Enhancement: Enhances the performance of the libc API getenv(3C) for threaded applications. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.

New: HP MLIB: In TCOE, V9.5 includes a defect fix. HP MLIB is newly delivered as an optional product in VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.

New: HP-MPI: Newly delivered as an optional product in BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.

New: HP Wildebeest Debugger: An HP-supported implementation of the Open Source GNU debugger (GDB). Enables you to debug C, C++, and FORTRAN applications (32 bit and 64 bit versions) on Integrity and PA-RISC systems. Newly added as a recommended product to the BOE, HA-OE, VSE-OE, DC-OE.

New: HP-UX Atomic APIs (libatomic): Usage of these APIs avoid the use of mutex locks or semaphores in certain scenarios. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.

New: Improved Support for Multi-threaded Applications: Extends the mpctl(2) API and adds several new APIs to improve HP-UX support for multi-threaded applications. Provides the capability to have finer-grain control.

Java 2 Standard Edition Platform

New: Kernel Access Infrastructure: HP-UX Virtual Memory provides a new set of APIs to map user virtual addresses into the kernel. Useful as a copy avoidance solution where user data can be accessed and modified by kernel contexts, avoiding the copying in and out of data when system calls are invoked.

New: libc Enhancement: Contains a new API called memsetU16(3C), which can be used for memory operations to set area in memory to contain 2-byte word. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.

New: patch_active_text: Allows mprotect write access to the text of a running process such that the active text can be modified.