HP System Management Homepage Release Notes HP-UX, Linux, and Windows Systems *381383-006-en* Part number: 381383-006-en published June 2006 Edition: 4
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Table of Contents About This Document.....................................................................................5 Intended audience..................................................................................................................................5 New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................................5 June 2006 release for Linux and Windows..............................................................
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 the HP System Management Homepage. New and changed information in this edition These sections list what is new for the HP System Management Homepage releases.
• Supports customers enabling the use of SSLv2 • Added security fixes: • • Updated OpenSSL to v0.9.7i • Updated Apache and PHP security Log rotation December 2005 release for HP-UX HP SMH 2.2 provides the following functionality over previous HP SMH releases: • Delivers an upgrade to the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.
• Browser access using SSL Secure OS based authentication • Common HTTP/HTTPS service for HP management agents and utilities, for reduced complexity and system resource requirements • Simplified architecture for implementing HTTP security and HP management updates • Greater access control through NIC binding and advanced configuration features for individual and groups of users • Broader operating system and browser support.
Related information This section lists the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) documentation and related HP documentation. HP SMH documentation For more information regarding HP SMH, refer to the following sources: • HP System Management Homepage Release Notes The release notes provide documentation for what's new with the release, features and change notifications, system requirements, and known issues. The release notes are available on the HP Technical Documentation Web site at http://docs.hp.com.
Related documentation For more information relating to HP SMH, refer to the following sources: • HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guides (v1, B.11.11 and v2, B.11.23) These guides provide instructions on how to install or update to HP-UX. They are available on the Instant Information DVD and on the HP Technical Documentation Web site at http://docs.hp.com. • HP-UX 11i Release Notes (v1, B.11.11 and v2, B.11.
1 Features The HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows provides the following features. They apply to all releases, except where noted. Product features • HP Insight Management Agent Security Provides Insight Manager Agents and security for HP Insight Management Agents using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for Linux and Windows. • Web-based Applications Security Provides Web-based applications and security using SSL.
2 System requirements This chapter provides the minimum system requirements for the HP-UX, Linux, and Windows systems to run HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH). Supported operating systems HP SMH supports the following operating systems for the HP-UX, Linux, and Windows systems: • HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) for HP Integrity Servers and HP 9000 Servers • HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) for HP Servers and Workstations • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 for x86, Update 3 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
Supported browsers This section lists the supported browsers for the HP-UX, Linux, and Windows systems: For HP-UX Itanium or PA-RISC systems that are connecting to any server type or for a HP-UX servers that display to any desktop via X, you can use the following desktop browsers : • Mozilla 1.6 • Mozilla 1.7 For Windows Itanium or x86 systems that are connecting to any server type, you can use the following desktop browsers: • Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0 • Mozilla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 • Firefox 1.0.2, 1.
RPMs supported on the x86 platform HP SMH supports the following Red Hat Package Managers (RPM) for each of the Linux operating systems on the x86 platform. Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (x86) RPM • glibc 2.3.3-98 or later • pam 0.77-221 or later • perl 5.8.0 or greater • zlib 1.2.1 or greater • glibc v2.3.2 • pam 0.75-51 or greater • perl 5.8.0 or greater • zlib 1.1.4-8.1 or greater • glibc 2.3.
RPMs supported on the AMD64 and EM64T platform HP SMH supports the following RPMs for each of the Linux operating systems on the AMD64 and EM64T platform. Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (AMD64 and EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (AMD64 and EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (AMD64 and EM64T) 16 System requirements RPM • glibc 2.3.3-98 or greater • pam 0.77-221 or greater • perl 5.8.0 or greater • zlib 1.2.1-70 or greater • glibc 2.3.2 • pam 0.75-56 or greater • perl 5.
RPMs supported on the Itanium platform HP SMH supports the following RPMs for each of the Linux operating systems on the Itanium platform. Operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (Integrity platforms) Update 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (Integrity platforms) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for Integrity Linux RPM • glibc-2.3.4 • j2sdk-1-4-2 • net-snmp-utils-5.1.2-11.EL4.6hp • net-snmp-perl-5.1.2-11.EL4.6hp • openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 or greater • pam-0.77-66.14 or greater • perl-5.8.
Verifying system requirements Before installation begins, the installation utility verifies whether: • For HP-UX, Linux, and Windows, the operating system meets the minimum requirements. If HP SMH does not support the operating system on a system, an error message appears, indicating that an invalid operating system is found. • For HP-UX, Linux, and Windows, the user is logged in with administrator/root rights.
3 Known Issues This chapter contains known issues with the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) releases. HP SMH undergoes rigorous testing before releasing any given version of the product. From HP test activities to date, the following items have been uncovered that you should keep in mind. HP SMH 2.2.3 release for HP-UX • This release corrects the 2.2.2 release problem of numerous unnecessary processes attributed to the System Management Homepage startup daemon.
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.
1. 2. As a precautionary measure, copy the existing smhpd.xml file into a different directory. 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 and tags: value Note: The value can be 64-512 on Windows systems or 25-64 on Linux systems. The default value for Windows systems is 250 and the default for Linux systems is 25.
HP SMH 2.0 release for Windows • HP SMH becomes inaccessible after installing Windows XP Service Pack 2. In addition, HP Systems Insight Manager and the HP Version Control Repository Manager are inaccessible. The Windows XP Service Pack 2 implements a software firewall that prevents browsers or other clients from accessing the ports required for access to the Version Control Repository Manager.
Index A S audience, 5 service and support, 9 software, 18 D document organization, 7 documentation, 8 F features, 11 new, 5 H T troubleshooting, 19 typographic conventions, 7 W Web browsers, supported, 14 Web sites, 18 HP SMH install requirements, 18 media, 18 operating systems, 13 RPMs on AMD64, 16 RPMs on EM64T, 16 RPMs on Itanium, 17 RPMs on x86, 15 software, 18 Web browsers, 14 Web sites, 18 I install operating systems, 13 requirements, 18 RPMs on AMD64 and EM64T, 16 RPMs on Itanium, 17 RPMs o
