HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers

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Figure 6: The System Management Homepage framework
System Management Homepage web server
At the heart of the System Management Homepage framework is an Apache-based web server and
an infrastructure for supporting a set of plug-in web applications that we developed. The web
applications retrieve the detailed information on the managed server from the MIB. The apps put
the data into a meaningful format and create the HTML pages that comprise the System
Management Homepage. You can then use a web browser to view the pages that the SMH web
server of each managed system delivers.
The SMH web server also provides the execution platform for additional web-based applications
that are part of the Insight Management system. These include the web-based implementations of
HP Diagnostics and the HP Array Configuration Utility, as well as applications such as the HP Version
Control Agent. Although it is Apache-based, the web server is a locked-down, non-extensible
version of the Apache server that is not accessible for general-purpose use by other applications
running on the server.
System Management Homepage
The System Management Homepage is a set of active web pages that aggregate a system’s
management information and part of the overall HP Systems Insight Manager solution. As shown in
Figure 7, the management console displays general descriptive information about the managed
server, and presents information that the HP SIM server gathered over the standard SNMP
connection. Often, when you drill-down from HP SIM to view the detailed information for the
managed server, you are in fact viewing the System Management Homepage for that server. The
browser displays the System Management Homepage in a separate window. In this instance, the
System Management Homepage for the managed server was invoked when an administrator clicked
on the Health Status choice from the SIM console. You can also access the SMH for a server directly
at Port 2381 (a reserved IANA port) of the server’s IP address. This requires OS password
authentication. If you have configured the Insight Agents properly, at either installation or