HP System Management Homepage Release Notes, December 2006

1 Features
The HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows provides the following
features. They apply to all releases, except where noted.
Product features
• HP Insight Management Agent Security Provides Insight Manager Agents and security for HP
Insight Management Agents using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for Linux and Windows.
• Web-based Applications Security Provides Web-based applications and security using SSL.
• Configure Trust Mode Enables you to configure the trust mode level.
• Manage User Groups Manages the user system access through the user group account.
• Display HP Web-enabled System Management Software Information Displays all HP Web-enabled
System Management Software that provides information to HP SMH.
• To start Partition Manager, a user with Administrator (root) privileges can run the parmgr command
with the -b option to bypass the authentication step under HP SMH. To use this feature on HP-UX
11i v1, you must install KRNG11i, the Strong Random Number Generator software for HPUX 11i v1,
available from http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot.
• In HP-UX only, when autostart mode is enabled, any access made through port 2301 detects a change
in the list of available IP addresses. In previous releases, SMH would only be accessible using the IP
addresses defined at system startup. If new IP addresses were defined then SMH would have to be
restarted to use them.
With a new SMH feature, any configuration change in the list of available IP addresses, in clustered
and non-clustered environments, would automatically reconfigure SMH, restarting it when needed.
Environment changes such as enabling a new network card, adding ifconfig aliases, or a cluster
package failover would trigger this feature.
Alternatively, you can disable this feature by adding the following line to the
/opt/hpsmh/conf.common/smhpd.xml file:
<monitor-ip-changes>0</monitor-ip-changes>
For more information, go to http://docs.hp.com/en/T2786-90011/ch01s01.html.
System management tool changes
The HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) has been enhanced to provide Web interfaces using
the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH). HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is HP's solution
for multi-system management and HP SMH is for single-system management. Customers can seamlessly
move from multi-system views in HP SIM to more detailed single-system information in HP SMH.
HP SMH is the launch point for all single system Web-based management applications. HP SMH also
provides at-a-glance monitoring of system component health and consolidated log viewing. SAM continues
to provide access to TUI (Terminal User Interface) and X-based interfaces. More details on HP SMH for
HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) is available in a white paper located at
http://docs.hp.com/en/4AA0-4052ENW/4AA0-4052ENW.pdf.
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