HP System Management Homepage 7.0 User Guide

Contents
1 Product overview........................................................................................6
Product features........................................................................................................................6
HP SIM...................................................................................................................................6
2 Getting started...........................................................................................7
Signing in................................................................................................................................7
Starting HP SMH from Internet Explorer...................................................................................8
Starting HP SMH from Mozilla or Firefox.................................................................................9
Starting HP SMH from HP SIM.............................................................................................10
Configuring firewall settings.....................................................................................................10
Windows..........................................................................................................................10
Linux................................................................................................................................11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6...............................................................................11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server...........................................................................................12
Configuring timeout settings for HP-UX.......................................................................................13
Configuring SMH Service Timeout........................................................................................13
Configuring SMH Session Timeout........................................................................................13
Automatically importing certificates...........................................................................................14
Signing out............................................................................................................................15
3 Scenarios................................................................................................16
IP Binding..............................................................................................................................16
IP Restricted Login...................................................................................................................16
Local Server Certificate............................................................................................................16
Port 2301..............................................................................................................................16
Kerberos Authentication (Windows only)....................................................................................16
User Groups..........................................................................................................................16
Alternative Names (Windows and Linux only).............................................................................16
4 Navigating the software............................................................................17
Information areas...................................................................................................................19
Icon view...............................................................................................................................21
HP SMH pages......................................................................................................................23
5 The Home page.......................................................................................24
Component Status Summary....................................................................................................24
Overall System Health Status....................................................................................................24
6 The Settings page.....................................................................................25
SNMP webagent box..............................................................................................................25
SMH Data Source category (Windows and Linux only)...........................................................25
SNMP Configuration category (Windows and Linux only).......................................................25
UI Options category (Windows and Linux only).....................................................................26
System Management Homepage Box........................................................................................26
UI Properties category........................................................................................................26
User Preferences category...................................................................................................27
Security............................................................................................................................28
Anonymous/Local Access category.................................................................................29
IP Binding category.......................................................................................................30
IP Restricted Login category............................................................................................31
Local Server Certificate category.....................................................................................33
Port 2301 category.......................................................................................................34
Timeouts category.........................................................................................................36
Session Timeout........................................................................................................37
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