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In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture
of how the June 2007 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the September
2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see the indicated
chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes, available in its most current version at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2/. The following summaries are not exhaustive, so HP strongly recommends
that you consult the HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release
Notes for information that is not included here. June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific
Information”. CommonIO bundle: Updated with
quality improvements. Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2
(HWEnable11i): Includes new support for PCI-Express
I/O adapters in HP Integrity Servers, and HP-UX support for HP servers
with PA8900 processors and the sx2000 chipset. HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE): Updated
to version to incorporate defect fixes. Networking and Mass Storage Drivers 10GigEther-00: Updated to enable
future products. FibrChanl-00 (HP PCI Tachyon
TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel Driver): Updated with several quality and
performance enhancements for the td driver, as
well as defect fixes. FibrChanl-01 (Fibre Channel Mass
Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2): Updated to incorporate defect fixes. New: FibrChanl-02 (Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2): Supports a
new set of PCIe fibre channel host bus adapters, starting with the
AD299A. The driver name is fclp, which is default-installed. IEther-00: PCI Express (PCIe)
technology enabled on HP-UX 11i v2 to support PCIe dual-port cards.
New lanadmin option to enable writing VPD asset_tag on eeprom. HP strongly recommends
that the default values of four tunables not be changed. RAID-01: Updated with quality
improvements and support for Instance Provider. scsiU320-00: Updated with quality
improvements. SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality
improvements, new HBA firmware, and support for Instance Provider. USB-00: Updated to version C.01.04.03
to incorporate defect fixes.
Utility Pricing Solutions HP Instant Capacity (iCAP): Updated to version B.11.23.08.01.01.x with update to the required version of nPartition
Provider, defect fixes, modifications to the installation procedure,
and more.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System
Administration”. Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Updated
to version 1.4 to incorporate defect fixes. New: DUMPAAEnable:
Version B.11.23.0609.01. Enables high-availability features for HP's
Active-Active Disk Arrays when configured as dump devices. Available
on Software Pack. 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. Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version
B.04.01. Enhanced Oracle toolkit, README file of each toolkit in the
ECMT bundle. Includes support for HP Apache, HP CIFS and Oracle 9i
and 10g with Cluster File System (CFS) 5.0, and more. Event Monitoring Services: Enhanced to support Web
Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) notifications. Also includes defect
fixes. Bundle name changed from B67609BA to EventMonitoring. Feature Enablement Patch Bundle: FEATURE11i bundle consists of all its previous patches plus new enablement
patches for Dynamic Root Disk, vPars, and VxFS products. High Availability Monitors: Updated to support the
update of Event Monitoring Service. HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VM Provider):
Upgrade from A.01.20 to A.03.00 provides support for Windows guests
in addition to HP-UX guests. HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMGuestLib): Upgrade
from version A.01.20 to A.03.00 includes support for Windows guests. HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version 4.60
with enhancements including (for OVPA) support for HP Virtual Machine
2.0, configurable logging intervals, additional logging thresholds,
flush interval, and (for GlancePlus) gpm has been
renamed as xglance, ability to monitor HP Virtual
Machine 2.0 guests from the HPVM host system, and more. HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment 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: Updated to version A.03.00.00.x with several changes, including: conditional policies
that take effect based on Serviceguard events; enablement of use of
Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP) resources on the policy level;
support for Hyper-Threading; new gwlmstatus command;
and more. HP Process Resource Manager: Now provides an interface
inside HP Systems Insight Manager; xprm interface
has been removed. HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Updated to version A.04.04.
Provides support for HP 9000 servers based on the HP sx2000 chipset,
support for SCSI tape boot and recovery within a vPars A.04.04 environment
for supported HP Integrity servers. Purchased separately. nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.01.03 with
defect fixes. PRMKernelSW: Formerly PRM Libraries, now known as
PRMKernelSW, which contains only the PRM kernel fileset, PRM-Sw-Krn. PRMLibraries: Now contains PRM API. Previous content
of this product is now in the PRMKernelSW product. Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.06.xx.xx to include defect
fixes and support for new features of the VSE Management Software.
Now provides support for Application Discovery and for Serviceguard
failover. vPar Provider: Provides defect fixes for improving
product performance.
HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.18. Changes
include new, streamlined package-creation process; explicit support
for external scripts; general-purpose support for package dependencies
on the same node; general-purpose support for multi-node packages
(volume groups must be mounted in shared mode); and more. Bundle name
changed from T1905BA to T1905CA. HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.23.07
with fix for a problem with hanfs.sh script and
a new white paper that describes how Serviceguard NFS Toolkit works
with the Cluster File System in a Serviceguard environment. HP System Management Homepage for HP-UX: Updated to
version A.2.2.6.x to incorporate defect
fixes. HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated with support for
HP VSE Management Software 3.0 products; enhancement to better identify
associations between systems when those systems convert to a different
subtype; and change in the name of orphan systems. HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.05.x, which is a major update to version A.02.00 and is
based on OpenPegasus 2.5 source base and CIM Schema 2.9. Key differentiators
include association providers, internationalization support for CIM
operations, CIM schema upgrade, and more. Bundle name changed from
B8465BA to WBEMSvcs. HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Now available as a tool
in the HP System Management Homepage. TUI is no longer ObAM-based. HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version
11.23.0706. New Consolidated Status Provider (CSP), new
Indication Provider, and contains defect fixes. New: HP-UX WBEM File
System Provider: Makes available file system information. The FSProvider
instruments the HPUX_HFS, HP_LOFS, HP_CDFS, HP_VxFS, HP_NFS, HP_MountPoint and HPUX_Mount classes. New: HP-UX WBEM IOTree
Indication Provider: Enables management clients to subscribe to WBEM
indications. Indication consumers can receive indications whenever
there is a state change in the hot swappable slots of the PCI-IO sub-system. HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces: Delivers
two new providers: HP-UX LAN Indication Provider and LAN Consolidated
Status Provider. Installation of DLPI patch PHNE_35545 is recommended. HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Updated to version 11.23.008
to incorporate defect fixes. 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. HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.23.0706.
Supports Consolidated Status Provider feature and contains defect
fixes. Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.2.xx. This is the final Ignite-UX release supporting HP-UX 11.00 installation
and recovery. Significant changes to the default system configuration
for HP-UX 11i v2 have been made to support software added to HP-UX
after initial release, better handle larger mass storage devices and
support future updates to other HP-UX releases. Will now recover the
Memory File System (MemFS) configuration. Has introduced the ability
to block particular paths and protocols during inventory. An example
script has been added to simplify creation of recovery DVD media.
Support for new hardware and defect fixes. ObsIOTreePro: Upon update from
HP-UX 11i v1 to HP-UX 11i v2, will remove the ISU IOTree Provider
product and will retain the core IOTree Indication Provider product. Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update, automatically
removes obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers. Online Diagnostics: Updated to support Emulex PCI-e
Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters AD299A and AD355A. The new monitor
for these cards (dm_fclp_adapter) is included in
this release for Itanium®-based systems. Other I/O devices, as well as new systems and storage
arrays are also supported. Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated for the HP-UX
11i v2 (B.11.23) June 2007 release. Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes. Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes, including quality improvements to the manpage and graphical
user interface (GUI). System Fault Management: Updated with changes including
new providers, the choice of the SFMIndicationProvider instead of
EMS Hardware Monitors on Itanium ®-based systems, the ability to view indications generated by the
High Availability Monitors, and more. Update-UX: Updated to reflect defect fixes. There
are no new features or functionality in update-ux.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File
Management”. HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.02.01 with
support for MS Distributed File System (DFS) and new configuration
parameters; and other features. HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0g version A.02.03.01.
Based on Samba 3.0.22 with 3.0.23 selected fixes. Also includes fixes
and enhancements provided in HP CIFS Server 3.0f version A.02.03.
Enhancements include Winbind code re-design and TDB memory map support.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and
Networking”. Firefox and FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 1.5.0.8.
Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation. New: HP-UX Enhanced
Publickey-LDAP: Enhanced with the newkey/chkey commands and the getpublickey/getsecretkey APIs. Available on Software Pack. HP-UX Web Server Suite HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Updated to version
2.0.58.01 as primarily a security/defect fix release. HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Tomcat upgraded
to version 5.5.20.00. HP-UX Webmin-based Admin: Updated as primarily a defect
fix release. Webmin upgraded to 1.070.09. HP-UX XML Web Server Tools: XML Web Server tools upgraded
to version 2.03.
LDAP-UX Integration: Updated to version B.04.10. Provides
defect fix and new features, including Dynamic Group Support, PAM_AUTHZ enhancements, and more. Mozilla: Updated to 1.7.13.01. Contains security fixes. Netscape Directory Server for HP-UX: Updated to B.06.21.50.
Contains defect fixes in addition to new features provided in version
B.06.21, including support for four-way multi-master replication,
support for fine-grained password policy, and more. Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Updated to version
B.07.10.20.20 to provide defect fixes. Thunderbird and ThunderbirdSrc: Updated to 1.5.08.00.
Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security”. HP-UX Bastille: With version 3.0.x, new enhancements, capabilities, features, and benefits (including
bastille_drift analysis) represent additional items that Bastille
will be able to lock down, additional usability improvements, and
a new ability for Bastille to check a given system to ensure its security
state is the same as a saved baseline. Bundle name changed from B6849AA to HPUXBastille. HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System: Updated to
version 4.1. Supports an alert volume reduction feature; enables the
generation of customized and consolidated alert reports that are easy
to view and print; provides a tuning tool that reduces the time and
effort to deploy and maintain Surveillance Schedules; and more. HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to version A.03.05.14 with
Filtering for IPv6 packets equivalent to IPv4 packet filtering while
maintaining IPv4 support; Stateful filtering for TCP (limited stateful
filtering for UDP and ICMPv6); IPv6 fragmentation support (the ability
to block fragmented traffic); and other changes. HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration: Defects are
fixed in this release. Install-Time Security: Includes the bundles Sec00Tools, Sec10Host, Sec20MngDMZ, and Sec30DMZ. Updated
to version 1.4.x with new questions/configuration,
diagnostic daemon configure to local-only use (not network), and syslog local-only. OpenSSL: Updated to version A.00.09.07l.003. Incorporates
defect fixes. If OpenSSL A.00.09.08d is enabled, additional security
features are available. HP-UX Role-based Access Control: Updated to version
B.11.23.04 with introduction of a set of “privilege shells,” integration with HP System Management Homepage, integration with
select commands, and defect fixes. Available on Software Pack. HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.40.011.
Features include change to ssh ControlMaster directive
for Connection Sharing; improved performance for remote-to-local and
local-to-remote file transfers; and features introduced in OpenSSH4.4p1. New: HP-UX Software
Assistant: A command-line based tool that consolidates and simplifies
patch management and security bulletin management on HP-UX systems. HP-UX Standard Mode Security Extensions: Version B.11.23.02
introduces integration with HP-UX Role-based Access Control, allowing
more granular access controls. In addition, also introduces the userstat command for querying the status of user account
information. Available on Software Pack.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and
System Calls”. New: LoginNLS: Version
B.11.23.01. Provides French Native language support for login(1). Available on Software Pack. New: TRUFGREP: Provides
a new command - trufgrep(1), which searches the input
text files for a pattern. Uses a different algorithm to implement
fgrep(1). Available on Software Pack. New: usermod Command Enhancement (Restricted Movement of Home Directories): With
this enhancement, usermod(1M) can selectively prevent the
movement of home directories with the -m option.
Available on Software Pack.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries
and Programming”. HP MPI: Updated to version 2.2.5 with MPI-2 name publishing
support, new mpirun option -netaddr, and new environment variables. HP-UX Java Development Kit and HP-UX Java Runtime
Environment for the Java™ 2 Platform
Standard Edition (JDK/JRE): Versions 1.4 and 5.0 (1.5) of the JDK/JRE,
Add-ons, and Plugins updated to incorporate defect fixes. Perl: Updated to version 5.8.8 build 817.1 with improvements
to performance, changes to several commands, defect fixes, and much
more.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”. There are no changes in June 2007 for the products
or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”. There are no changes in June 2007 for the products
or features that are normally documented in this chapter.
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