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In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture
of how the December 2007 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the
June 2007 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see the indicated sections in the remainder
of this document. Chapter 4. CommonIO: Updated with quality
improvements. See “CommonIO”. Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle (HWEnable11i): Includes patches for support with Intel® Integrity® Family
9100 Processors and PCIe SAS I/O adapters in HP Integrity Servers,
and Mezzanine I/O adapters for HP Server Blades. See “Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)”. HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition Client: Version
A.03.95.510.46.03 has defect fixes. See “HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition”. PCI Error Handling: Updated to add support for the
PCI/PCI-X slots available on rx3300 and rx6600 and for the PCIe slots
available with the upgraded I/O backplanes and extenders for rx7640,
rx8640, and Integrity Superdome sx2000. (This is a Software Pack product
available on the Application Release [AR] media and on the web.) See “PCI Error Handling”. “Utility Pricing Solutions” HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.23.08.03.00.
Support for vPars A.03.05 and support for the integrated virtual partition
environment on HP-UX 11i v1 systems. The icapstatus command now displays the fill iCAP version number, and more. GiCAP
Disaster Recovery allows customers to transfer usage rights to other
group members when a member is unavailable. See “HP Instant Capacity”.
Chapter 5. Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Updated
to incorporate defect fixes. See “Distributed Systems Administration Utilities”. Dynamic Root Disk (DRD): Introduces support for root
volumes managed by VxVM Release 4.1. See “Dynamic Root Disk”. Feature Enablement Patch Bundle: FEATURE11i bundle consists of all its previous patches plus new enablement
patches for HPVM, PCIe error handling, Audio Development Kit, PCI
Mux, Trusted Computing Services, and vPars. See “Feature Enablement Patch Bundle - Feature11i”. HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version 4.70.
A set of new metrics have been added in HP Performance Agent. See “HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak”. “HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment” New: Accelerated
Virtual I/O: This solution is composed of four new products: GuestAvioLan, HostAvioLan, GuestAvioStor, and HostAvioStor.
The new AVIO storage and lan devices deliver a new re-architected
I/O path for HPVM, and provide significant performance improvements
over the existing VIO products. All four AVIO products are Default-Installed.
See “Accelerated Virtual I/O”. Application Discovery Agent (AppDiscAgent): Updated to version 3.0.01 to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP Application Discovery”. HP Global Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.00.01.x to provide more flexibility in managing your systems.
Changes include conditional policies that take effect based on Serviceguard
events, new gwlmstatus command, and other features.
Support for Linux managed nodes has been removed. See “HP Global Workload Manager”. HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VM Provider):
Upgraded from A.03.00 to A.03.50 to provide support for new features
in HP Integrity Virtual Machines. See “HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VM Provider)” HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMGuestLib): Upgrade
from version A.03.00 includes support for the new features of HP Integrity
Virtual Machines A.03.50. See “HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMGuestLib)”. HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Version A.04.05. provides
support for mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2 vPars environments, which enable
virtual partitions running HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) and HP-UX 11i v2
(B.11.23) to exist in the same nPartition. Purchased separately.
See “HP-UX Virtual Partitions”. HP-UX Workload Manager (AR Media Release): As of version
A.03.01, WLM on the AR media no longer includes PRM in the bundle.
However, with your purchase of WLM, you are entitled to a PRM license.
See “HP-UX Workload Manager (AR Media Release)”. nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.01.07 to
incorporate defect fixes. See “nPartition Provider”. Utilization Provider: Updated to a new version number
(A.01.06.03.01) to correct errors in the previous release (version
A.01.06.02.xx), which does not operate
correctly under HP-UX 11i v2. See “Utilization Provider”
HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version
A.2.2.7 to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP System Management Homepage”. HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Updated to support
SHA 512-based password hashing in HP-UX. See “HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups”. HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes. See “HP-UX Kernel Configuration”. HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes. See “HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool”. Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.4. New features
include support for USB 2.0 I/0 protocol; recovery support for Agile
SAS addressing; enhanced search/sort capabilities for large numbers
of disks; and more. See “Ignite-UX”. Online Diagnostics: Now supports the HP Integrity
BL870c Server Blade. Enabled to handle PCIe errors on specified Integrity
systems. Additional cards and storage units are supported. See “Online Diagnostics”. Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for the December
2007 release. See “Quality Pack Patch Bundles”. Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes. See “Software Distributor”. Software Package Builder: Now supports the Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) version 1.5 in addition to the Java Runtime Environment
(JRE) version 1.4. See “Software Package Builder”. System Fault Management: Now supports the HP Integrity
BL870c Server Blade. Supports the PCI Express interface events on
selected systems. Includes defect fixes. See “System Fault Management ”. Update-UX: Updated to reflect defect fixes. See “Update-UX”. WBEM Services and Providers HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.05.08
to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP WBEM Services for HP-UX”. HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version
11.23.0712. Supported by the System Management Homepage, plus other
changes. See “HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider”. HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider: Updated to
version 11.23.0712 to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider”. New: HP-UX WBEM Kernel
Providers: Used obtain information related to kernel parameters and
swap space available on the system. See “HP-UX WBEM Kernel Providers”. HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider: LAN Provider is supported
by the System Management Homepage. See “HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider”. HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Updated to version R11.23.009.
Provides association between a VolumeGroup and the LogicalVolumes
created within the group; provides association between a PhysicalVolume
and the VolumeGroup for a spare physical volume; and more, See “HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider”. HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA Provider: Updated with quality improvements
and with a defect fix. See “HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA Provider”. HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider: Updated with quality improvements
and with a defect fix. See “HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider”. HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.23.0712.
Now supported by the System Management Homepage. See “HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider”.
Chapter 6. HP CIFS Server: Updated to enhance the wbinfo tool with two new options, -c and -C, which can be used to display the total number of users or groups
for a domain. See “HP CIFS Server”. HP-UX Memory File System (MemFS): Updated to allow
the customer to mount a MemFS instance without the need of a separate
swap device, and more. (This is a Software Pack product available
on the web.) See “HP-UX Memory File System”. New: HP-UX Parallel
Umounts (UmountallCmdEnh) implements parallel
unmounts. (This is a Software Pack product available on the web.)
See “HP-UX Parallel Umounts”.
Chapter 7. Firefox, FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.4. Fixes
several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation.
See “Browsers”. Thunderbird, ThunderbirdSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.6.
Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation.
See “Browsers”. 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. See “HP-UX Mobile IPv4”. “Internet Services” BIND: Updated to version 9.3.2 to incorporate a fix
to one security defect. (This is a Software Pack product available
on the web.) See “BIND”.
LDAP-UX Integration: Updated to version B.04.15. Supports
the new set of non-interactive LDAP command-line tools that allow
you to list, add, modify or delete user accounts and groups in an
LDAP directory server. See “LDAP-UX Integration”. Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Version B.07.10.30
mainly provides defect fixes. See “Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX”.
Chapter 8. HP-UX Bastille and Install Time Security: Update includes
integration with HP-UX Software Assistant (carried over from September
2007), defect fixes, security configuration reporting, and configuration
drift detection from saved baseline. See “HP-UX Bastille and Install Time Security”. HP-UX IPFilter: Updated so that Dynamic Connection
Allocation (DCA) feature and ipftest utility now
support IPv6 rules. Includes other changes. See “HP-UX IPFilter”. HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.50.21
to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP-UX Secure Shell”. HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration: Text user
interface (TUI) now supports form-based inputs. Updated to incorporate
defect fixes. See “HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration ”. HP-UX Software Assistant: Updated to version C.01.02
to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP-UX Software Assistant”. Kerberos Client: Updated to version D.1.3.5.07 to
incorporate defect fixes. (This is a Software Pack product available
on the web.) See “Kerberos Client”. OpenSSL: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. No new
features. See “OpenSSL”.
Chapter 9. There are no changes in December 2007 for the products
or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
Chapter 10. Chapter 11. There are no changes in December 2007 for the products
or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
Chapter 12. There are no changes in December 2007 for the products
or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
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