HP System Management Homepage Release Notes, December 2006

HP SMH 2.2.2 release for HP-UX
• The following warning occurs when you use HP-UX Bastille to disable the Apache server on a system
that has an System Management Homepage instance of Apache running. The warning confirms that
the Bastille configuration you selected does not affect the System Management Homepage Apache
server. To continue to run the System Management Homepage Apache server, ignore this message;
otherwise, you can disable the System Management Homepage Apache server manually.
WARNING: The following processes were still running even though
the corresponding service appears to be turned off.
Bastille question and action will be skipped.
hpsmh 22993 22987 0 10:33:02 ? 0:02 /opt/hpws/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL -f /opt/hpsmh/conf/smhpd.conf
root 22987 1 0 10:33:01 ? 0:00 /opt/hpws/apache/bin/httpd -k start -DSSL -f /opt/hpsmh/conf/smhpd.conf
• Please note that we did not reissue the HP-UX documentation (online help, install guide, and release
notes) for this release. The December 2005 release documentation can be used for this March 2006
release.
• If you are logging in to System Management Homepage from HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM),
but the System Management Homepage page never appears, then you need to modify a setting in
HP SIM so that is always uses a fully qualified name in the URI. For example, in the browser you
would only see the hostname:2381 at the end of the URI instead of the
fully_qualified_hostname:2381.
To configure HP SIM to always use a fully qualified hostname when logging in to System Management
Homepage:
1. Select Options ⇒ Security ⇒ System Link Configuration.
2. Click Use the system's full DNS name. Click OK.
System Management Homepage should launch correctly.
NOTE: If the problem still exists, run Configure ⇒ Configure or Repair Agents against the
managed node. Make sure SSH is working by selecting Configure Secure Shell Access - Host
Based authentication and then Relationship - Set to Trust by Certificate.
This causes System Management Homepage to prompt you to accept the certificate the first time
you run it from HP SIM. After that, you should be able to launch System Management Homepage
without logging in again.
• You may see numerous unnecessary processes attributed to the System Management Homepage
startup daemon. The processes are instances of the smhstartd daemon and smhredirect that
may never finish and may even remain running when System Management Homepage is shut down.
To correct this problem, install the PHSS_34507 (HP-UX 11i v1) or PHSS_34508 (HP-UX 11i v2) patch,
depending on your system. Please note that in the HP System Management Homepage 2.2.3 release,
this problem is corrected.
HP SMH 2.2 release for HP-UX
• HP SMH already uses the user and group name hpsmh. You should not use it for any other purpose.
• The native HP-UX user authentication mechanism, which is used by the HP SMH login, limits the
length of user passwords to eight characters. When passwords longer than eight characters are used,
the exceeding characters are ignored.
18 Known issues