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The following summaries pertain to the September 2007 HP-UX
11i v3 release. For further information, see the indicated chapters
in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2007 Release
Notes, available in its most current version at http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 2: “Introduction
to HP-UX 11i Version 3” Software Pack (SPK): No SPK content delivered on media
in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2007 release. However, a couple of core
enhancements, AccessControl and AtomicAPI, have been delivered on
the HP Software Depot at http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific
Information” New: Hardware Enablement
Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i):
Provides patches required for new systems and the latest Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, and for add-on hardware supported on HP-UX
11i v3, including I/O adapters and devices. New: HP Instant Support
Enterprise Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.510.42.07 to incorporate
defect fixes. Mass Storage Stack: New options to manage multi-pathed
disks and disk arrays. I/O Subsystem: More networking & I/O drivers are
DLKM-enabled, which means they can be dynamically loaded
and unloaded from the HP-UX kernel without manually rebuilding
the kernel or rebooting the system. Networking and Mass Storage Drivers Required Networking Drivers 10GigEthr-00: Updated to support
UDP traffic over the destination port-based
multi-queues and to display vital product data (vpd) by
using the nwmgr command. DLKM-enabled. GigEther-00: DLKM-enabled and
defect fixes. GigEther01: DLKM-enabled. IEther-00 and Gigabit Ethernet:
AD337A and AD338A PCI-Express is now supported; iether is DLKM-enabled. 100BT (btlan): DLKM-enabled.
Ultra160 SCSI (c8xx): Driver is
DLKM-enabled, but not all modules in patch are DLKM compliant.
Optional Networking Drivers InfiniBand Clustering System: Supports additional
PCIe cards; DLKM-enabled.
Required Mass Storage Drivers CommonIO bundle: Support for
additional FC HBAs; delivers SAS-COMMON,
which contains utilities for managing specific SAS HBAs;
delivers FC-COMMON, which contains utilities for managing
specific FC HBAs. FibrChanl-00: DLKM-enabled.
FibrChanl-01: DLKM-enabled. Defect
fixes. scsiU320–00: DLKM-enabled. SerialSCSI-00: DLKM-enabled. USB-00: Updated to version C.01.05.02
to incorporate defect fixes.
Utility Pricing Solutions iCAP (Instant Capacity): GiCAP disaster recovery,
changes to TiCAP transfer and consumption; changes to icapstatus output; defect fixes.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General
System Administration” New: Feature Enablement
Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Contains required
patches for new or updated software products. New: Quality Pack
Patch Bundles: Stable, defect-fix patch bundles for the OS and applications.
This first release will deliver the Base Quality Pack bundle only.
The Applications Quality Pack bundle will be delivered in later releases
as patches qualify. New: Dynamic Root
Disk (DRD): An HP-UX system administration toolset used to clone an
HP-UX system image to an inactive disk for software maintenance
and recovery. System administrators use DRD to manage system
images on HP PA-RISC and Itanium®-based systems. Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version
B.04.01; support for HP-UX Apache on HP-UX Tomcat for CVM/CFS
5.0; support for HP CIFS/900 on CVM/CFS 5.0; support for CVM/CFS
5.0; enhanced Oracle toolkit; support for Serviceguard A.11.18. Event Monitoring Service: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes. High Availability Monitors: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes. HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Support for Integrity
VM (HPVM) 2.0; configurable logging intervals and flush intervals; gpm renamed to xglance. HP-UX IPQoS: HP-UX IPQoS for earlier HP-UX releases
(HP-UX 11i v1 and v2) is incompatible with HP-UX 11i v3 and so is
removed by ObsIPQoS. However, a new, HP-UX v3-compatible
version of HP-UX IPQoS is now available on the Application Release
(AR) media for September 2007, as well as on Software Depot at http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot. LVM and MirrorDisk/UX: Parallel re-sync; parallel
opens; alternate link behavior; defect fixes. EMS and STM: Supports Dynamic nPartitions, additional
systems, and additional cards; monitors generates new events. System Fault Management: New WBEM providers; enhancements
to the SFMIndication Provider; new Event Subscription Administration.
HP Serviceguard: New package-creation process and
enhanced support for package dependencies and multi-node packages;
additional support for cluster parameters, APA and VLAN, Integrity
VM (HPVM), and more. HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC: Support for VxVM
4.1, Cluster Interconnect Monitoring, SGeRAC Toolkit, Veritas
CVM/CFS 4.1, and Oracle 9i & 10g R2 RAC. Ignite-UX: Supports new hardware for 11i v3, plus
other changes. Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes. Software Utilities: Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes. Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes.
HP Partitioning and VSE: New: Dynamic nPartitions:
cell online activation. New: Dynamic nPartitions:
cell online de-activation. nPartition Configuration Commands: New parolrad command for Dynamic nPartitions operations. nPartition Provider: Interpretation of Dynamic nPartitions
capability bit is changed. Partition Manager (parmgr): Support
for Dynamic nPartitions. Virtual Partitions (vPars): Support for PA systems
running sx2000 chipset, pre-enablement for SCSI tape boot
and recovery for Integrity systems. Purchased separately. New: HP Application
Discovery: Application Discovery agent (AppDiscAgent) is default-installed on the OE media. The agent securely
supplies data to Application Discovery server at intervals
that can be set by a system administrator. HP Global Workload Manager: Includes conditional policies
related to Serviceguard events, usage of TiCAP resources based on
policy level, support for Hyper-Threading, and further integration
with other VSE products. HP Process Resource Manager: Provides an interface
within HP SIM (System Insight Manager). PRMKernelSW (formerly known as PRM Libraries): Changes
in fileset. PRMLibraries: Changes in product and fileset encapsulation.
Now contains the PRM API. HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VMProvider):
Supports the new features of VM A.03.00. HP Integrity VM Guest Support Libraries (VMGuestLib):
Supports the new features of VM A.03.00.
Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.06.02.xx to incorporate defect fixes. System Management GUIs HP System Management Homepage (SMH): Defect fixes. HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM): Supports VSE 3.0
products. Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU):
Usability enhancements. Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services
Configuration: Support for IPv6; support for specifying
additional modules to be pushed amongst IPv6, IPv4, and
DLPI; more information for tunnels. Disks and File Systems: Support for Volume Group
creation for Serviceguard clusters and automatic distribution of
LVM changes to all cluster nodes. HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Supports managing
POSIX users and groups from LDAP database. HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Defect fixes. HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Defect fixes. New: Printer Management
tool: A new Web-based printer management tool available on the HP
System Management Homepage (HP SMH).
WBEM Services and Providers: HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Defect fixes. HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Supports Consolidated
Status Provider and Indication Provider features. New: HP-UX WBEM IOTree
Indication Provider: Supports Indication Provider for hot-swappable
PCI slots. New: The HP-UX KC
Provider: Supports kcmodule provider and kctunables provider. Both work in the WBEM environment. HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces (WBEMP-LAN-00):
New provider, LAN Consolidated Status Provider, delivered in this
release. HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider (OLOS):
Supports cell online activation and deactivation. New: HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA
Provider: Used by client applications to determine information about
Smart Array HBAs present on the system. New: HP-UX WBEM SAS
Provider: Used by client applications to determine information about
SAS HBAs present on the system. With this component you can retrieve
details about the various attributes of SAS HBAs. HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Supports Consolidated Status
Provider feature and defect fixes.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk
and File Management” HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0g version A.02.03.02
to incorporate defect fixes and enhancements. No longer maintains
the LDAP management scripts, smbldap-tools.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet
and Networking” New: HP-UX Mobile
IPv4: Provides mobility support for mobile devices to migrate
from their home network to other networks, either within the same
administrative domain or to other administrative domains on the
Internet. Internet Services New: Multimedia
Streaming Protocols: Enables you to stream audio and video files.
Delivered on the OEs as an optional feature.
LDAP-UX Integration: Updated to version B.04.15 with
dynamic group support, PAM_AUTHZ, TLS support, schema
extension utility, and more. Red Hat Directory Server: Updated to version B.07.10.30
to incorporate defect fixes. Web Browsers New: Firefox and
Firefox Source: Web browser sets a new standard for internet browsing
by providing an easier and more personal way to use the Internet. New: GTK and GTK
Source: Open-source windowing toolkit used by Firefox and Thunderbird. New: Thunderbird
and Thunderbird Source: Email application provides convenient, customizable,
rich-featured email access.
Web Servers: New: HP-UX NSA HTTP:
Updated to version B.11.31.01.02; enables NSA (Network
Server Accelerator). HP-UX Web Server Suite: Updated versions of products
in the HP-UX Web Server Suite. HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Includes additional
modules, including scripting, content management, and security. HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Implements Java
Servlet 2.4 and Java Server Pages 2.0 specifications. HP-UX Webmin-based Admin: Defect fixes. HP-UX XML Web Server Tools: Upgraded to version 2.03;
Xerces upgraded to version 2.8.0.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security” HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration:
Supports new GUI as part of the security attributes tool in
HP SMH (System Management Homepage). HP-UX Bastille and Install Time Security: Bastille
updated to version B.3.0.26. Now works with Software Assistant
(SWA). HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System: Updated to
version 4.1. Includes alert volume reduction feature,
generation of customized and consolidated alert reports, and
a tuning tool that reduces the time and effort to deploy and
maintain Surveillance Schedules. HP-UX IPFilter: Changes in versioning. HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes. New: HP-UX Software
Assistant (SWA): includes Security Patch Check (SPC) and is the HP-recommended
utility to use to maintain currency with HP-published security bulletins
for HP-UX software. OpenSSL: Updated to version A.00.09.08d.002.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands
and System Calls” ioscan Command: The -l option of ioscan has been deprecated and will
be obsoleted in a future HP-UX release.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries
and Programming” HP MPI: User's guide updated from the 10th edition
to the 11th edition. HP-UX Java Development Kit and HP-UX Java Runtime
Environment for the Java® 2 Platform Standard Edition (JDK/JRE): Updated to versions Java
1.4.2.13 and Java 5.0.8 to incorporate defect fixes. Perl: Updated to version 5.8.8 build 817.1 to incorporate
defect fixes.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization” There are no changes in September 2007 for the products
or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other
Functionality” There are no changes in September 2007 for the products
or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
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