HP System Management Homepage

1 Product Overview
The HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is a Web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies
single system management for HP servers on HP-UX, Linux (x86, AMD64, and Intel Itanium), and Microsoft®
Windows® operating systems.
By aggregating the data from HP Web-based agents and management utilities, HP SMH provides a common,
easy-to-use interface for displaying the following information:
• Hardware fault and status monitoring
• Performance data
• System thresholds
• Diagnostics
• Software version control for an individual server
On an HP-UX system, HP SMH has a bundle tag of SysMgmtWeb and is installed by default on all HP-UX
versions, including HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11), HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), and HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) Operating
Environments.
HP SIM
HP SMH is tightly integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). You can easily navigate to HP SMH
from the System Lists and System Pages in HP SIM.
NOTE: Accepting the HP SIM certificate is the default behavior. For more information see “Trusted
Management Servers”.
There are also several HP SIM tools (under the Configure→HP-UX Configuration category) that access
HP SMH-based plugins directly.
Integrated Management Tools
HP SMH provides the management server for Web-based system administration.
For HP-UX, key functional areas of the HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) have been enhanced
to provide Web-based management capabilities and are now integrated into HP SMH. These include such
areas as Partition Management, Peripheral Devices, Disks & File Systems, Users and Groups, and Kernel
Configuration.
HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) Deprecation
The HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) was an HP-UX System Administration tool that provided
tools for performing system administration tasks. In the HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) release of HP-UX, SAM is
deprecated. HP SMH, an enhanced version of SAM, is the recommended tool for managing HP-UX.
HP SMH provides Graphical User Interface (GUI), Terminal User Interface (TUI) and Command Line Interface
(CLI) for managing HP-UX. You can access these interfaces using the smh command (/usr/sbin/smh).
You can also use the sam (1M) command, which behaves the same as the smh (1M) command, but the
deprecation message is displayed in the beginning.
Most applications for performing administration tasks are now available through the web-based GUI interface
and the enhanced TUI. However, a few applications continue to open in ObAM based X-windows or ObAM
based TUI.
Some functional areas previously available for system administration are obsolete. These areas are listed in
the HP-UX 11i Release Notes , available on the HP Technical documentation Web site at http://docs.hp.com.
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