HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide, June 2006

7 Installing in-place on Linux
This chapter provides steps to install HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) in-place on Linux x86
systems and x86-64 systems.
NOTE For information regarding installing HP SMH on Integrity platforms, refer to HP Integrity Essentials
Foundation Pack for Linux 1.0 User Guide at http://docs.hp.com.
▲ “Installation for Linux on x86 and x86_64” (page 35)
• “Installing HP SMH on Linux x86 systems” (page 35)
• “Installing HP SMH on x86_64” (page 35)
• “Configuring HP SMH” (page 36)
The next chapter provides steps to install HP SMH in-place on Linux systems using the Linux Deployment
Utility.
• “Installing HP SMH with preconfiguration” (page 41)
• “Preconfiguring the HP SMH component” (page 41)
• “Installing HP SMH as a single component” (page 42)
• “Installing HP SMH without preconfiguration” (page 42)
Installation for Linux on x86 and x86_64
The HP SMH installation for Linux enables you to silently install HP SMH on x86 and x86_64 systems. After
the installation is complete, you can configure the HP SMH settings.
NOTE To install HP SMH, you must be logged in as root user.
Installing HP SMH on Linux x86 systems
To install HP SMH on x86 systems, your system must meet the minimum requirements. For more information
regarding minimum requirements, see Chapter 2. Installation requirements . In addition, you must have
the hpsmh-2.x.x.linux.i386.rpm.
Note: The general 32-bit RPM List is not installed by default.
To install HP SMH, enter the following command line:
rpm –ivh hpsmh-2.x.x-linux.i386.rpm
A message appears indicating that HP SMH installed successfully with default configuration values.
Installing HP SMH on x86_64
To install HP SMH on x86_64 systems, your system must meet the minimum requirements. For more information
regarding minimum requirements, see Chapter 2. Installation requirements . In addition, you must have
the hpsmh-2.x.x.linux-release.x86_64.rpm
To install HP SMH, enter the following command line:
rpm –ivh hpsmh-2.x.x-linux-release.x86-64.rpm
A message appears indicating that HP SMH installed successfully with default configuration values.
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