HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide, September 2006

Table of Contents
About this document......................................................................................5
Intended audience..................................................................................................................................5
New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................................5
Typographic conventions..........................................................................................................................5
Document organization............................................................................................................................5
Related information.................................................................................................................................6
HP SMH documentation......................................................................................................................6
Related documentation ......................................................................................................................7
Publishing history....................................................................................................................................7
HP encourages your comments.................................................................................................................7
1 Product overview........................................................................................9
Product features......................................................................................................................................9
2 Installation requirements............................................................................11
Supported operating systems..................................................................................................................11
Supported browsers..............................................................................................................................12
RPMs supported on the x86 platform.......................................................................................................12
RPMs supported on the AMD64 and EM64T platform................................................................................13
RPMs supported on the Itanium platform...................................................................................................13
Verifying system requirements.................................................................................................................14
Obtaining the HP SMH software.............................................................................................................14
HP media.......................................................................................................................................14
HP Web sites..................................................................................................................................14
3 Initial setup..............................................................................................15
Installation information...........................................................................................................................15
4 Installing on HP-UX...................................................................................17
Installation requirements.........................................................................................................................17
Installing HP SMH and dependent applications.........................................................................................18
Using the Applications media.................................................................................................................19
Using Software Depot............................................................................................................................19
Configuring HP SMH.............................................................................................................................20
Configuring the startup mode............................................................................................................20
Patching or updating the software...........................................................................................................21
System Management Tool Changes.........................................................................................................21
5 Installing on Windows..............................................................................23
Installing HP SMH in-place on Windows..................................................................................................23
Installing HP SMH for Windows silently....................................................................................................26
Generating a setup.iss file.................................................................................................................26
Installing silently using the CLI...........................................................................................................26
Reinstalling silently using the CLI........................................................................................................27
6 Installing HP SMH using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility......................29
Installing remotely on Windows using ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility.....................................................30
7 Installing in-place on Linux.........................................................................33
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