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In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture
of how the March 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the December
2005 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see the indicated
chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2006 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 March 2006 Release
Notes for information that is not included here. March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Server-Specific
Information”. Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle: New servers with
the sx2000 chipset now qualified. HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Updated to
version A.03.95.043 to incorporate defect fixes. Networking and Mass Storage Drivers HyprFabrc-00: Updated to support
large user count. Erratum: At the initial release of HP-UX 11i v2,
the/opt/clic/bin/clic_probe superseded the /opt/clic/bin/clic_ping utility. scsiU320-00: Updated to version
B.11.23.0603 with disablement of Quick Arbitration and Selection (QAS),
significantly reducing the occurrence of any SCSI-related issues seen
in a mixed speed disk configuration. SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality
improvements. Added in December 2005 to support future cards. USB-00: Updated to version C.01.03.01
with various quality improvements from previous releases, a dynamically
managed device file system, and USB mass storage encryption support.
New Product: PCI
Error Handling: Allows an HP-UX system to avoid a Machine Check Abort
(MCA) or a High Priority Machine Check (HPMC) if a PCI error occurs.
Now available on Software Pack media.
March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System
Administration”. Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Updated
to incorporate defect fixes. Now delivered as a default-installed
product on all OEs, including the TCOE. Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Included documentation
for version B.03.00 has been updated to include support for the VERITAS
Cluster File System (CFS) in selected HP Serviceguard Storage Management
Suite bundles. Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Added new patches for VERITAS and Infiniband. HP Partitioning HP Global Workload Manager: CMS updated to version
A.01.01.02 with changes, new features, and defect fixes for a more
robust product. The CMS is now delivered via HP Software Depot at http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot. HP Process Resource Manager: Updated to version C.03.01
with integration with HP SIM and ability to control shared memory.
Now works inside HP Integrity Virtual Machines. HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.01
with more flexibility in process placement, more workload groups,
and more management combinations. HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version
A.01.09 with an SAP Toolkit to simplify integration between SAP and
WLM. PRM Libraries: PRM-Sw-Krn fileset
has been updated to version C.01.04 to incorporate defect fixes.
HP Serviceguard: Included documentation for version
A.11.17 has been updated to include support for the VERITAS Cluster
File System (CFS) in selected HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite
bundles. HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Updated to incorporate
a defect fix. HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version
A.2.2.2 with defect fixes as well as improved event and hardware management. HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated with support for
integration with HP Storage Essentials Enterprise Edition, integration
with HP ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack, and integration
with HP ProLiant Essentials Server Migration Pack. HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.00.09
to incorporate defect fixes. HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups tool: Updated
to incorporate defect fixes. HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version
11.23.0603.02 to incorporate defect fixes. No new functionality. HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider: Updated to version 11.23.005
to incorporate defect fixes. No new functionality. HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.23.010
to incorporate defect fixes. No new functionality Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.6.7.x with defect fixes and security improvements. Online Diagnostics OnlineDiag Bundle: Updated to
enable new HP servers. New Product: SysFaultMgmt Bundle: Provides System Fault Management,
a collection of tools for monitoring the health of HP servers and
receiving information about hardware such as memory, CPU, power supplies,
and cooling devices.
Quality Pack Patch Bundle: Included in this release
as a superset of the December 2005 HP-UX 11i v2 Quality Pack. Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect
fixes. Update-UX: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.01 to
provide defect fixes which enable utilization data to be more reliable
for resource partitions and systems that contain more than 255 active
disks.
March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File
Management”. HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0d (version A.02.02)
with fixes and functionality from the new Samba base (version 3.0.14a),
including support for the idmap_rid facility and
support for publishing printers in an MS Windows 2000/2003 ADS domain,
as well as other enhancements. HP OnlineJFS: Version 1.4 is now “customer-selectable” instead of “default-installed” as in the previous release.
March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 7: “Internet and
Networking”. Mozilla for HP-UX: Updated to version 1.7.12.01 with
enhancements including improved Asian font support, the Japanese Language
Pack, and fixes for security vulnerabilities. New Product: Red
Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Version B.07.10.10 added to HP-UX
11i v2 with Windows user synchronization, get effective rights control,
wide-area network replication, fractional replication, and other features.
March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Security”. HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System: Updated to
version 4.0 with new features and enhancements, including support
for reduction of alert volume by aggregation, reduction of alert volume
by monitoring only critical files, the ability to specify critical
users, and more. HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration tool: Updated
to incorporate defect fixes. OpenSSL: Has a new version number due to a packaging
change. No change in functionality.
March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Commands and
System Calls”. No changes in this release.
March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 10: “Libraries
and Programming”. Java 2 Standard Edition Platform HP 3D Technology for the Java™ 2 Standard Edition Platform: Upon installation of the
OEs, v1.3 will be removed by the ObsJava13 bundle. HP-UX Java Development Kit and HP-UX Java Runtime
Environment for the Java™ 2 Platform
Standard Edition (JDK/JRE): Version 5.0 updated to incorporate defect
fixes. Now included in the TCOE. ObsJava13 bundle
will remove SDK/RTE and Plug-In 1.3. Java Out-of-Box: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
Perl: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”. No changes in this release.
March 2006 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”. No changes in this release.
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