What is New in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2007 Release?

In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the September 2007 release of HP-UX 11i v3 differs from the initial (February 2007) release of HP-UX 11i v3.

For further information, see the indicated sections in the remainder of this document.

Chapter 2.

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. See “Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v2 Core Enhancements)”.

Chapter 4.

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. See “Hardware Enablement Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3”.
New: HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.510.42.07 to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition”.
Mass Storage Stack: New options to manage multi-pathed disks and disk arrays. See “Mass Storage Stack”.
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. See “I/O Subsystem”.
For networking & mass storage drivers, see “Networking and Mass Storage Drivers”.
- For required networking drivers, see “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. See “10GigEthr-00 10 Gigabit Ethernet Bundle (ixgbe)”.
  GigEther-00: DLKM-enabled and defect fixes. See“GigEther-00 Gigabit Ethernet Driver Bundle (gelan)”.
  GigEther01: DLKM-enabled. See “GigEther-01 Gigabit Ethernet Driver Bundle (igelan)”.
  IEther-00 and Gigabit Ethernet: AD337A and AD338A PCI-Express is now supported; iether is DLKM-enabled. See “IEther-00 Gigabit Ethernet Networking Driver (iether)”.
  100BT (btlan): DLKM-enabled. See“100BT (btlan) 100BASE-T Ethernet Driver ”.
  Ultra160 SCSI (c8xx): Driver is DLKM-enabled, but not all modules in patch are DLKM compliant. See “HP PCI Ultra160 SCSI Driver”
- For optional networking drivers, see “Optional Networking Drivers”.
  InfiniBand Clustering System: Supports additional PCIe cards; DLKM-enabled. See “IB4X-00 InfiniBand Clustering System”.
- For Required Mass Storage Drivers, see“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. See “CommonIO Bundle”.
  FibrChanl-00: DLKM-enabled. See “FibrChanl-00 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 ”.
  FibrChanl-01: DLKM-enabled. Defect fixes. See “FibrChanl-01 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver ”.
  RAID-01: DLKM-enabled. See“RAID-01”.
  scsiU320–00: DLKM-enabled. See “scsiU320-00 Bundle”.
  SerialSCSI-00: DLKM-enabled. See “SerialSCSI-00 Bundle”.
  USB-00: Updated to version C.01.05.02 to incorporate defect fixes. See “USB-00”.
For a list of supported servers, see “Supported Systems”.
For information on HBA firmware, see “Finding Firmware Information”.
For information on which I/O cards are supported, see “Supported and Unsupported HP-UX I/O Cards”.
For information on the Utility Pricing Solutions, see “Utility Pricing Solutions”.
- iCAP (Instant Capacity): GiCAP disaster recovery, changes to TiCAP transfer and consumption; changes to icapstatus output; defect fixes. See“HP Instant Capacity”.

Chapter 5.

New: Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i): Contains required patches for new or updated software products. See “Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)”.
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. See “Quality Pack Patch Bundles”.
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. See “Dynamic Root Disk (DRD)”.
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. See “Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit”.
Event Monitoring Services: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “Event Monitoring Services”.
High Availability Monitors: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “High Availability Monitors”.
HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Support for HPVM 2.0; configurable logging intervals and flush intervals; gpm renamed to xglance. See “HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak”.
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. See “LVM (Logical Volume Manager) & MirrorDisk/UX”.
EMS and STM: Supports Dynamic nPartitions, additional systems, and additional cards; monitors generates new events. See “Online Diagnostics”.
System Fault Management: New WBEM providers; enhancements to the SFMIndication Provider; new Event Subscription Administration. See “System Fault Management”.
HP Serviceguard: New package-creation process and enhanced support for package dependencies and multi-node packages; additional support for cluster parameters, APA and VLAN, HPVM, and more. See “HP Serviceguard”.
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. See“HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC”.
Ignite-UX: Supports new hardware for 11i v3, plus other changes. See “Ignite-UX”.
Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS”.
Software Utilities:
- Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “Software Distributor”.
- Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “Software Package Builder”.
HP Partitioning and VSE: See“HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment”.
- New: Dynamic nPartitions: cell online activation. See “Dynamic nPartitions, cell online activation”.
- New: Dynamic nPartitions: cell online de-activation. See“Dynamic nPartitions, cell online deactivation”.
- nPartition Configuration Commands: New parolrad command for Dynamic nPartitions operations. See “HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands”.
- nPartition Provider: Interpretation of Dynamic nPartitions capability bit is changed. See “nPartition Provider”.
- Partition Manager (parmgr): Support for Dynamic nPartitions. See“Partition Manager (parmgr)”
- Virtual Partitions (vPars): Support for PA systems running sx2000 chipset, pre-enablement for SCSI tape boot and recovery for Integrity systems. Purchased separately. See“HP-UX Virtual Partitions”.
- 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. See “HP Application Discovery”.
- 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. See “HP Global Workload Manager”.
- HP Process Resource Manager: Provides an interface within HP SIM (System Insight Manager). See “HP Process Resource Manager”.
- PRMKernelSW (formerly known as PRM Libraries): Changes in fileset. See “PRMKernelSW”.
- PRMLibraries: Changes in product and fileset encapsulation. Now contains the PRM API. See“PRMLibraries”.
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VM Provider): Supports the new features of VM A.03.00. See “HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VM Provider)”.
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMGuestLib): Supports the new features of VM A.03.00. See “HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMGuestLib)”.
Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.06.02.xx to incorporate defect fixes. See “Utilization Provider”.
System Management GUIs
- HP System Management Homepage (SMH): Defect fixes. See“HP System Management Homepage”.
- HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM): Supports VSE 3.0 products. See “HP Systems Insight Manager ”.
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU): Usability enhancements. See“Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) ”.
- 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. See “Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration (ncweb)”.
- Disks and File Systems: Support for Volume Group creation for Serviceguard clusters and automatic distribution of LVM changes to all cluster nodes. See “Disks and File Systems (fsweb)”.
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Supports managing POSIX users and groups from LDAP database. See “HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb) ”.
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Defect fixes. See “HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb)”.
- HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Defect fixes. See “HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager (pdweb)”.
- New: Printer Management tool: A new Web-based printer management tool available on the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH). See “Printer Management (Web-based)”.
WBEM:
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Defect fixes. See “HP WBEM Services for HP-UX”.
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Supports Consolidated Status Provider and Indication Provider features. See“HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider”.
- New: HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider: Supports Indication Provider for hot-swappable PCI slots. See “HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider”.
- New: The HP-UX KC Provider: Supports kcmodule provider and kctunables provider. Both work in the WBEM environment. See “HP-UX WBEM KC Providers”.
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces (WBEMP-LAN-00): New provider, LAN Consolidated Status Provider, delivered in this release. See “HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces (WBEMP-LAN-00)”.
- HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider (OLOS): Supports cell online activation and deactivation. See “HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider (OLOS)”.
- New: HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA Provider: Used by client applications to determine information about Smart Array HBAs present on the system. See “HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA Provider”.
- 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. See “HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider”.
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Supports Consolidated Status Provider feature and defect fixes. See “HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider”.

Chapter 6.

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. See “HP CIFS Server”.

Chapter 7.

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”:
- New: Multimedia Streaming Protocols: Enables you to stream audio and video files. Delivered on the OEs as an optional feature. See“Multimedia Streaming Protocols (MSP)”.
LDAP-UX Integration: Updated to version B.04.15 with dynamic group support, PAM_AUTHZ, TLS support, schema extension utility, and more. See “LDAP-UX Integration”.
Red Hat Directory Server: Updated to version B.07.10.30 to incorporate defect fixes. See “Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX”.
“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. See “Web Browsers”.
- New: GTK and GTK Source: Open-source windowing toolkit used by Firefox and Thunderbird. See “Web Browsers”.
- New: Thunderbird and Thunderbird Source: E-mail application provides convenient, customizable, rich-featured e-mail access. See “Web Browsers”.
Web Servers:
- New: HP-UX NSA HTTP: Updated to version B.11.31.01.02; enables NSA (Network Server Accelerator). See“HP-UX NSA (Network Server Accelerator) HTTP ”.
- HP-UX Web Server Suite: Updated versions of products in the HP-UX Web Server Suite. See “HP-UX Web Server Suite”.
- HP-UX Apache-based Web Server: Includes additional modules, including scripting, content management, and security. See “HP-UX Apache-based Web Server”.
- HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine: Implements Java Servlet 2.4 and Java Server Pages 2.0 specifications. See “HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine”.
- HP-UX Webmin-based Admin: Defect fixes. See “HP-UX Webmin-based Admin”.
- HP-UX XML Web Server Tools: Upgraded to version 2.03; Xerces upgraded to version 2.8.0. See“HP-UX XML Web Server Tools”.

Chapter 8.

HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration: Supports new GUI as part of the security attributes tool in HP SMH (System Management Homepage). See “HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes Configuration (secweb)”.
HP-UX Bastille and Install Time Security: Now works with Software Assistant (SWA). See “HP-UX Bastille and Install-Time Security”.
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. See “HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System”.
HP-UX IPFilter: Changes in versioning. See “HP-UX IPFilter”.
HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP-UX Secure Shell”.
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. See “HP-UX Software Assistant”.
OpenSSL: Updated to version A.00.09.08d.002. See “OpenSSL”.

Chapter 9.

ioscan Command: The -l option of ioscan has been deprecated and will be obsoleted in a future HP-UX release. See “ioscan Command”

Chapter 10.

HP MPI: User's guide updated from the 10th edition to the 11th edition. See “HP MPI”.
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. See “Java JDK/JRE for HP-UX”.
Perl: Updated to version 5.8.8 build 817.1 to incorporate defect fixes. See “Perl”.

Chapter 11.

There are no changes in September 2007 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter.

Chapter 12.

There are no changes in September 2007 for the products or features that are normally documented in this chapter.

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