HP System Management Homepage Release Notes, June 2006

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.
HP SMH 2.1.6 release for Windows and Linux
▲ The HP SMH interface times out too quickly or not as quickly as required.
HP SMH 2.1.5 and later provides a way for users to configure the GUI timeout.
To modify this setting:
1. As a precautionary measure, copy the existing smhpd.xml file into a different directory.
2. Manually add the tag:
a. Open the smhpd.xml in the \hp\hpsmh\conf directory on the boot drive with a text editor.
b. Add the following line between the <system-management-homepage> and
</system-management-homepage> tags:
<ui-timeout>any value between 10 and 3600 </ui-timeout>
c. Save the file.
3. Restart the HP SMH service.
HP SMH 2.1.4 release for Windows and Linux
• When a system is running near the limit of the number of threads or processes its resources can support,
HP SMH may not be able to start.
HP SMH 2.1.4 provides a way for users to reduce the number of threads required to avoid this issue.
Modifying this setting might affect HP SMH response time and throughput.
To modify this setting:
20 Known Issues