HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide, May 2005
Table of Contents
1. Product Overview ....................................................................................................... 6
2. Installation Requirements ............................................................................................. 7
Supported Operating Systems .................................................................................. 7
Supported Browsers ................................................................................................ 8
RPMs Supported on the IA-32 Platform ...................................................................... 9
RPMs Supported on the AMD64 and EM64T Platform ............................................... 11
RPMs Supported on the Itanium Platform .................................................................. 11
Verifying System Requirements ............................................................................... 13
Obtaining the System Management Homepage Software .......................................... 13
HP Media .................................................................................................... 13
HP Web Sites ............................................................................................... 13
3. Initial Setup ............................................................................................................. 15
4. Installing on HP-UX ................................................................................................... 16
Installation Requirements ........................................................................................ 16
Installing System Management Homepage and Dependent Applications ...................... 17
Using the Application Release (AR) Media ............................................................... 18
Using Software Depot ........................................................................................... 19
Configuring System Management Homepage .......................................................... 20
Configuring the Startup Mode ........................................................................ 20
Patching or Updating the Software .......................................................................... 22
5. Installing on Windows .............................................................................................. 23
Installing the System Management Homepage In-Place on Windows ........................... 23
Installing the System Management Homepage for Windows Silently ........................... 27
Generating a setup.iss file .............................................................................. 27
Installing silently using the CLI ......................................................................... 27
Reinstalling silently using the CLI ..................................................................... 28
6. Using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility ............................................................... 29
Installing Remotely on Windows Using ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility .................. 29
7. Installing In-Place on Linux ......................................................................................... 33
Installation for Linux on IA-32 and x86_64 .............................................................. 33
Installing System Management Homepage on Linux IA_32 Systems ..................... 33
Installing System Management Homepage on x86_64 ...................................... 34
Configuring System Management Homepage ................................................... 34
8. Installing In-Place on Linux Using Linux Deployment Utility .............................................. 41
Installing System Management Homepage with Pre-configuration ............................... 41
Pre-configuring the System Management Homepage Component ........................ 41
Installing the System Management Homepage as a Single Component ................ 43
Installing the System Management Homepage without Pre-configuration ...................... 43
9. Initializing the Software for the First Time ..................................................................... 44
10. Logging In and Logging Out of System Management Homepage .................................. 45
Logging In with Windows XP .................................................................................. 45
Logging In with Internet Explorer ............................................................................. 45
Logging In with Mozilla ......................................................................................... 47
Logging In from the HP-UX Command Line ............................................................... 48
Logging Out ......................................................................................................... 48
11. Uninstalling the System Management Homepage ....................................................... 49
Uninstalling from an HP-UX System ......................................................................... 49
Uninstalling from a Linux IA-32 or x86_64 System .................................................... 49
Uninstalling from a Windows System ...................................................................... 49
Uninstalling from Multiple Windows Systems Silently ................................................. 49
Uninstalling Manually for Windows Systems ............................................................ 50
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