Next generation single-system management on HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)

Introduction
HP-UX has provided single-system management through HP System Administration Manager (SAM),
which offers a variety of functional areas to cover different aspects of HP-UX management. After
conducting customer surveys at the HP World conference and collecting feedback from customers, HP
determined that 80% of HP-UX customers use SAM for local system management. Customer feedback
also indicated the desire to have more consistency and common components in the management
solutions from HP.
Local system management is a key aspect of an overall management strategy, complementing the
multisystem management capabilities of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and the HP OpenView
portfolio of products.
Based on the feedback received from customers, HP offers the HP System Management Homepage
(HP SMH), an enhanced web-based version of HP SAM, as a single-system management solution for
HP-UX, Linux, and Microsoft® Windows® systems.
The purpose of this document is to introduce HP SMH and its various plug-ins, which are available as
of March 2006. The use cases involving HP SMH plug-ins described in this document highlight the
features provided by HP SMH.
Definition of terms
Term Definition
CacheFS Cache File System
CDFS Compact Disc File System
CIFS Common Internet File System
CLI command line interface
CMS Central Management Server
DSAU Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
Evweb
The Event Subscription Administration and Event Viewer are HP SMH plug-ins to view and manage
events and event subscriptions.
Fsweb
The File Systems and Logical Volume Management (LVM) Configuration tool is an HP SMH plug-in to
manage LVM volumes and volume groups.
GUI graphical user interface
HFS Hierarchical File System
HP SAM
HP System Administration Manager is an HP-UX tool that is used to perform various system
administration tasks.
HP SMH
HP System Management Homepage is a web-based single-system management tool that is used to
perform various system administration tasks.
HP SIM
HP Systems Insight Manager is a web-based multisystem management tool that is used to perform
various system administration tasks.
Kcweb The Kernel Configuration tool is an HP SMH plug-in to manage the kernel.
LVM Logical Volume Management
NIS Network Information Services
NFS Network File System
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