HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide, June 2006

About this document
Intended audience
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, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. This
installation guide is for system administrators who are installing HP SMH.
New and changed information in this edition
To review what is new and changed in this release of HP SMH, see the HP System Management Homepage
Release Notes on the HP Technical Documentation Web site at http://docs.hp.com.
Typographic conventions
audit(5) HP-UX manpage. audit is the name and 5 is the section in the HP-UX Reference . On the web and
on the Instant Information DVD, it may be a hot link to the manpage itself. From the HP-UX
command line, you can enter “ man audit ” or “ man 5 audit ” to view the manpage. See
man(1).
Book Title Title of a book. On the web and on the Instant Information DVD, it may be a hot link to
the book itself.
Command Command name or qualified command phrase.
ComputerOut Text displayed by the computer.
Emphasis Text that is emphasized.
Emphasis Text that is strongly emphasized.
KeyCap Name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer to the same key.
Term Defined use of an important word or phrase.
UserInput Commands and other text that you type.
Variable Name of a variable that you may replace in a command or function or information in a
display that represents several possible values.
[ ] Contents are optional in formats and command descriptions. If the contents are a list
separated by |, you must choose one of the items.
{ } Contents are required in formats and command descriptions. If the contents are a list
separated by |, you must choose one of the items.
... Preceding element may be repeated an arbitrary number of times.
| Separates items in a list of choices.
<element> An element used in a markup language.
attribute= An attribute used in a markup language.
Document organization
The install guide is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 “Product overview” (page 9)
Chapter 2 “Installation requirements” (page 11)
Chapter 3 “Initial setup” (page 17)
Chapter 4 “Installing on HP-UX” (page 19)
Chapter 5 “Installing on Windows” (page 25)
Chapter 6 “Installing HP SMH using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility” (page 31)
Chapter 7 “Installing in-place on Linux” (page 35)
Chapter 8 “Installing in-place on Linux using Linux Deployment Utility” (page 41)
Chapter 9 “Initializing the software for the first time” (page 43)
Chapter 10 “Logging in and logging out of HP SMH” (page 45)
Chapter 11 “Uninstalling HP SMH” (page 49)
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