HP System Management Homepage User Guide, May 2005

one system to another, and it provides authentication and secure
communications over insecure channels.
Secure Sockets Layer A standard protocol layer that lies between HTTP and TCP and
provides privacy and message integrity between a client and
server. A common use of SSL is to provide authentication of the
server, so the client can be assured it is communicating with the
system that the system claims to be. It is application protocol
independent.
Secure Task Execution Secure execution of a task from a managed system. This feature
of System Management Homepage ensures that the user
requesting the task has the appropriate rights to perform the task
and encrypts the request to protect data from snooping.
self-signed certificate A certificate that is its own Certificate Authority (CA), so that the
subject and the CA are the same.
See Also certificate, Certificate Authority.
single login Permission granted to an authenticated user browsing to HP
Systems Insight Manager to browse to any of the managed
systems from within HP Systems Insight Manager without
re-authenticating to the managed system. HP Systems Insight
Manager is the initial point of authentication and browsing to
another managed system must be from within HP Systems Insight
Manager.
software update A task to remotely update software and firmware.
status type Systems of specified status type (Critical, Major, Minor, Normal,
and Unknown).
survey utility An agent (or online service tool) that gathers and delivers
hardware and operating system configuration information. This
information is gathered while the server is online.
System Management
Homepage
An integrated piece of software used by the suite of HP
Web-enabled System Management Software to communicate
over HTTP and HTTPS. It provides a uniform set of funtionality
and security to HP Web-enabled System Management Software.
URI Provides methods to access a resource on the Internet. A Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) is a type of Uniform Resource Indicator
(URI).
URL A global address of resources on the World Wide Web. A
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a type of Uniform Resource
Indicator (URI).
user A network user with a valid login on the System Management
Homepage.
user accounts Accounts used to log in to System Management Homepage. These
accounts associate a local Windows user, domain account, or
an HP-UX or Linux user group with privilege levels and paging
attributes inside System Management Homepage.
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