HP System Management Homepage Release Notes, June 2007

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 release notes is for system administrators and any level of
user of HP SMH.
New and changed information in this edition
These sections list what is new for the HP SMH releases.
June 2007 release for HP-UX
HP SMH 2.2.6 provides the following functionality over previous HP SMH releases:
• Provided support for the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) and HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) releases. This
HP SMH release is not for HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31)
• New web-based solution for Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
• Delivered defect fixes to the HP-UX 11i releases
April 2007 release for Linux and Windows
HP SMH 2.1.8 provides the following functionality over previous HP SMH releases:
Added operating system support to include:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for x86
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
Added security fixes:
• Updated PHP security
February 2007 release for HP-UX
HP SMH 2.2.5 provides the following functionality over previous HP SMH releases:
• Provided support for new HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) Enterprise release
• New web-based solutions for Networking and Communications (ncweb), and ServiceGuard
complex management (sgmgr)
• Delivered defect fixes to the HP-UX 11i releases
• System Administration Management Tool Changes: SAM and HP SMH
HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i v3. HP SMH is
the system administration tool for managing HP-UX 11i. HP SMH provides web-based
systems management functionality, at-a-glance monitoring of system component health and
consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides a Terminal User Interface (TUI). SAM
continues to provide access to TUI (Terminal User Interface) and X-based interfaces. More
details on HP SMH are available in the Next generation single-system management on HP-UX
11i v2 (B.11.23) white paper located at http://docs.hp.com/en/4AA0-4052ENW/
4AA0-4052ENW.pdf.
Some of the key changes are described below:
— The SAM Functional Area Launcher (FAL) is replaced by the HP SMH web-based
Graphical User Interface (GUI).
— The enhanced TUI offers improved look and feel, online viewing of manpages, command
previews, and other improvements.
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