System Management Homepage Release Notes HP-UX, Linux, and Windows Systems

June 2007 release for HP-UX
HP SMH 2.2.6 provides the following functionality over previous HP SMH releases:
• Provided support for the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) and HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) releases. This
HP SMH release is not for HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31)
• New web-based solution for Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
• Delivered defect fixes to the HP-UX 11i releases
April 2007 release for Linux and Windows
HP SMH 2.1.8 provides the following functionality over previous HP SMH releases:
Added operating system support to include:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for Itanium
Added security fixes:
• Updated PHP security
February 2007 release for HP-UX
HP SMH 2.2.5 provides the following functionality over previous HP SMH releases:
• Provided support for new HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) Enterprise release
• New web-based solutions for Networking and Communications (ncweb), and ServiceGuard
complex management (sgmgr)
• Delivered defect fixes to the HP-UX 11i releases
• System Administration Management Tool Changes: SAM and HP SMH
HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i v3. HP SMH is
the system administration tool for managing HP-UX 11i. HP SMH provides web-based
systems management functionality, at-a-glance monitoring of system component health and
consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides a Terminal User Interface (TUI). SAM
continues to provide access to TUI (Terminal User Interface) and X-based interfaces. More
details on HP SMH are available in the Next generation single-system management on HP-UX
11i v2 (B.11.23) white paper located at http://docs.hp.com/en/4AA0-4052ENW/
4AA0-4052ENW.pdf.
Some of the key changes are described below:
— The SAM Functional Area Launcher (FAL) is replaced by the HP SMH web-based
Graphical User Interface (GUI).
— The enhanced TUI offers improved look and feel, online viewing of manpages, command
previews, and other improvements.
— For HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) only, a new command, smh(1m) is introduced (
/usr/sbin/smh), which is an enhanced version of the sam(1m) command
(/usr/sbin/sam).
— For HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) only, the sam command in /usr/sbin/sam is deprecated.
Any invocation of /usr/sbin/sam will display the deprecation message and launch
/usr/sbin/smh automatically.
January 2007 release for Linux and Windows
HP SMH 2.1.7 provides the following functionality over previous HP SMH releases:
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