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PRM support policy

For information on the length of support for a particular version of PRM, please see the Support Information document.

Patches

Patches are given in the tables below. Each HP-UX version has its own table, organized by PRM version.

See the installation notes below on steps to complete before and after installing patches.

Find the patches recommended for:

To determine your HP-UX version, use the command:

# uname -r

To determine what version of PRM you have, enter the following command:

# what /opt/prm/bin/prmconfig

Downloading patches

To download individual patches, visit:

Patch types

PHCO HP-UX COmmand patch
PHKL HP-UX KerneL patch
PHNE HP-UX NEtworking patch
PHSS HP-UX SubSystem patch(PHSS patches on this page are PRM-specific)
The patches listed are the patches available at the time of release. The listed patches may have since been superseded. If a patch you need has been superseded, download the superseding patch.

Installation notes

Before installing patches

1. Read each patch's installation instructions

Each patch comes with a .txt file named using the patch number. For example, patch PHSS_26845 has a file named PHSS_26845.txt. Be sure to read the "Special Installation Instructions" section of the .txt file for each patch you are going to install.

2. Shut down PRM: 

# prmconfig -r

After installing patches

Restart PRM:

# prmconfig -e [-f configfile]

HP-UX 11i v3 patches needed for PRM

PRM Version Patch Description
All
PHKL_36160
Memory Resource Groups (MRG) patch
C.03.03.01
PHSS_37617
PRMSIMTools patch to address a WBEM connectivity issue

HP-UX 11i v2 patches needed for PRM

PRM version Patch Description
All

HP-UX 11i v2
Update 2
(Reboots system: Yes)

 BUNDLE11i patch bundle
All
 Java patches for the GUI
 See the patches section of Java Technology Software on HP-UX
All
PHKL_33604
PHKL_33605
(Reboots system: Yes)
Install all these patches at the same time.
These patches help ensure each job within a FSS-based PRM group gets a more equal share of the group's entitlement than it would under HP-UX semantics.
All
PHKL_33052
(Reboots system: Yes)
Prevents performance degradation when using PRM groups that are based on FSS groups in a single-processor virtual partition, nPartition, or system
All
PHKL_36134
 Memory Resource Groups (MRG) patch
All
PHKL_32518
(Reboots system: Yes)
Allows you to create more than 64 PRM groups, assuming you have already installed BUNDLE11i
All
 PHCO_34599
Addresses a libc defect relating to ps, cron, login, and other such commands
C.03.03.01
PHSS_37616
 PRMSIMTools patch to address a WBEM connectivity issue
C.03.01
PHSS_34629
(Reboots system: No)
Resolves the following issues:
  • Certain PRM MIBs using snmpwalk are not printed, or they output incorrect information
  • prmlist –m output shows incorrect memory values when using WLM
  • Incorrect initialization of /var/tmp/PRM.prmconf
  • Incorrect processing of user records
C.03.00
PHSS_34627
(Reboots system: No)
 Resolves the following issues:
  • Certain PRM MIBs using snmpwalk are not printed, or they output incorrect information
  • prmlist –m output shows incorrect memory values when using WLM
  • Incorrect initialization of /var/tmp/PRM.prmconf
  • Incorrect processing of user records
C.02.03.03
 None
C.02.02
 PHSS_30986
(Reboots system: No)
Resolves the following issues:
  • After converting to shadow passwords on a system, xprm's remote management fails
  • A root user is unable to run
  • prmconfig -s -f to check syntax
  • A memory leak in the prm1d daemon
  • The prmanalyze -p command returns wrong data
  • prmconfig aborts when files starting with unsupported characters are found
C.02.01.01
 None

HP-UX 11i v1 patches needed for PRM

PRM version Patch Description
All
HP-UX Quality Pack**
(Reboots system: Yes)
Defect-fix patches for HP-UX 11i on HP-UX PA-RISC workstations and servers Install the Quality Pack before installing the Software Pack
All
HP-UX Software Pack
(Reboots system: Yes)
Provides Processor Sets

Available from HP-UX Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i Core Enhancements)
All
 HWEnable11i
(Reboots system: Yes)
 Required hardware enablement patches for all HP-UX 11i workstations and servers
All
 Java patches for GUI
See the patches section of Java Technology Software on HP-UX
All
PHKL_33372
(Reboots system: Yes)
 Memory Resource Groups (MRG) Superseded patches*: PHKL_32619, PHKL_28695, PHKL_26938, PHKL_25304
All
PHKL_36133
Memory Resource Groups (MRG) patch
All
PHKL_32061
PHKL_31993
PHKL_30034
PHKL_30035
PHKL_31995
(Reboots system: Yes)
 Install all these patches at the same time.

These patches:

  • Preserve allocations in cases where a PRM group with a large allocation and just enough jobs to get that allocation could be outperformed by a smaller allocation group with more jobs
  • Improve performance of I/O-based applications when the Fair-Share Scheduler (FSS) is enabled

Superseded patches*:

  • PHKL_32061 supersedes:
    PHKL_30216, PHKL_30032,
    PHKL_29707
  • PHKL_31993 supersedes:
    PHKL_30036, PHKL_30033,
    PHKL_29708, PHKL_29706
  • PHKL_30034 supersedes:
    PHKL_24557
  • PHKL_30035 supersedes:
    PHKL_29705, PHKL_27531,
    PHKL_26232
  • PHKL_31995 supersedes:
    PHKL_30037, PHKL_29709
All
PHCO_34275
 Addresses a libc defect relating to ps, cron, login, and other such commands
C.03.03.01
 PHSS_37557
PRMSIMTools patch to address a WBEM connectivity issue
C.03.01
 PHSS_34628
(Reboots system: No)
 Resolves the following issues:
  • Certain PRM MIBs using snmpwalk are not printed, or they output incorrect information
  • prmlist –m output shows incorrect memory values when using WLM
  • Incorrect initialization of /var/tmp/PRM.prmconf
  • Incorrect processing of user records
C.03.00
PHSS_34626
(Reboots system: No)
Resolves the following issues:
  • Certain PRM MIBs using snmpwalk are not printed, or they output incorrect information
  • Incorrect initialization of /var/tmp/PRM.prmconf
  • Incorrect processing of user records
C.02.02
 PHSS_34735
(Reboots system: No)
Resolves the following issues:
  • Incorrect initialization of /var/tmp/PRM.prmconf
  • Incorrect processing of user records
  • After converting to shadow passwords on a system, xprm's remote management fails
  • A root user is unable to run
  • prmconfig -s -f to check syntax /li>
  • A memory leak in the prm1d daemon
  • The prmanalyze -p command returns wrong data
  • prmconfig aborts when files starting with unsupported characters are found

Superseded patches*:
PHSS_30985

C.02.01 None
C.02.00.02 PHSS_26846
(Reboots system: No)
 Reduces excessive syslog messaging from the memory manager, generates an error when an LVM device is a character device instead of block, fixes an inconsistency in volume group data from prmavail and xprm, improves handling of SIGUSR1 by the application manager, improves logic for the prm2d memory manager and for prmavail's collecting of memory data
C.02.00
PHSS_26845
(Reboots system: No)
Reduces excessive syslog messaging from the memory manager, generates an error when an LVM device is a character device instead of block, fixes an inconsistency in volume group data from prmavail and xprm, improves handling of SIGUSR1 by the application manager

*The lists of superseded patches are not the complete lists. To see a complete list, see the HP ITRC.
**The HP-UX Quality Pack for HP-UX 11i is GOLDPK11i. Use a version dated June 2001 or later.

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