HP System Management Homepage 3.1.
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Table of Contents 1 Features....................................................................................................7 Product features......................................................................................................................................7 Partition Manager...................................................................................................................................7 Available IP addresses..........................................................
List of Tables 1-1 HP SMH integrated applications.........................................................................................................8 2 Publishing history................................................................................................................................
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 • Provides security for HP Insight Management Agents using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for Linux and Windows. • Provides web-based applications and security using SSL. • Enables you to configure the trust mode level. • Manages the user system access through the user group account.
Integrated applications to HP SMH HP SMH is a framework for a number of integrated applications. HP SMH provides the system management functionality (described in “HP SMH integrated applications” (page 8)) through a single user interface, the HP SMH Graphical User Interface (GUI). IMPORTANT: In HP SMH on HP-UX, there are some applications such as Authenticated Commands (PAM), Resource Management, and Network Services Configuration that are not web-based.
Application Name Operating System Application Description Kernel Configuration (kcweb) HP-UX The kcweb tool allows the user to configure an HP-UX kernel and to monitor consumption of kernel resources controlled by parameters. For more information, see the product's online help. Network Interfaces Configuration HP-UX Network Interfaces Configuration is a web-based system management tool that enables you to configure network interfaces on HP-UX installed systems.
Application Name Operating System Application Description Software Management HP-UX Copy depot software, install software, list depot software, list Installed software, remove depot software, and remove installed software. Time HP-UX Set the system clock, list the NTP client networks, and display NTP network time sources.
2 System requirements The minimum system requirements for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows systems to run HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH): Supported operating systems HP ProLiant servers • Windows Server 7 for x86 and x64 • Windows Server 2008 Foundation R2 • Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64 • Windows Server 2008 Standard for x86 and x64 • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise for x86 and x64 • Windows Server 2008 Datacenter for x86 and x64 • Windows Server 2008 Essential Business Server • Windows Se
• Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) • XEN HP Integrity servers • Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based systems, 64-bit • Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based systems, 64-bit • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Update 1 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 6 • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 Service Pack 1 • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 Service Pack 4 HP-UX • HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) for HP Integrity Servers and HP 9000 Servers • HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.
• Firefox 3.0 • Firefox 3.5 • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.x NOTE: Installation of HP SMH does not require a browser. The HP Web-enabled System Management Software is hardware-dependent. For the installation to complete successfully, your system must support at least 256 colors. Verifying system requirements Before installation begins, the installation utility verifies whether: • For HP-UX, Linux, and Windows, the operating system meets the minimum requirements.
3 Issues and workarounds 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. Please also refer to the HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide and HP System Management Homepage Online Help for known issues. HP SMH 3.1.
• It is not possible to modify the smhpd.conf file. This is expected behavior. HP SMH does not allow you to modify the smhpd.conf file. This file is generated every time HP SMH starts. Even if you modify this file, HP SMH overwrites it when you start HP SMH the next time. • Multiple users can simultaneously login to HP SMH as root users and perform administration tasks. This is expected behavior. The underlying commands will handle conflicts, if any.
Support and other resources New and changed information in this edition The following sections list what is new for the HP SMH releases. March 2010 release for HP-UX HP SMH 3.1.0 for HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 includes product enhancements and fixes for internally found defects. Following are the product enhancements: • Automated log collection via smhassist. • Command Line Interface (CLI) - smhconfig - that provides users with administrator rights access to set values through the command line.
IMPORTANT: The support for long length passwords of up to 255 characters in the shadow password mode is not available yet. HP SMH is pre-enabled to support maintaining long passwords ahead of this feature actually being available in HP-UX. September 2009 release for HP-UX HP SMH 3.0.2 for HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 includes product enhancements and defect fixes. Following are the product enhancements: • Support for IPv6 addresses. • Support for Internet Explorer web browser version 8.
• • Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2 x86 and x64 • Windows Server 2003 SBS, Standard and Premium R2 • Windows Vista Business Edition • Windows Vista Enterprise Edition • Windows Vista Ultimate Edition • Windows XP SP2 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 2 for x86 and AMD64/EMT64T • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 8 or later for x86 and AMD64/EMT64T • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 9 for x86, AMD64/EMT64T • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 9 for x86 with Cisco Kernel •
Typographic conventions find(1) Book Title Linked Title http://www.hp.com Command user input computer output Enter term variable value attrib= HP-UX manpage. In this example, “find” is the manpage name and “1” is the manpage section. Title of a book or other document. Title that is a hyperlink to a book or other document. A Web site address that is a hyperlink to the site. Command name or qualified command phrase. Commands and other text that you type. Text displayed by the computer.
• smhstartconfig (1M) manpage For HP-UX operating system releases, the manpage is available from the CLI using the man smhstartconfig command. This information is not available for Linux and Windows operating systems. • sam (1M) manpage For HP-UX operating system releases, the manpage is available from the CLI using the man sam command. This information is not available for Linux and Windows operating systems. • smh (1m) manpage This command is available in HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) only.
Manufacturing Part Number Supported Operating Systems Supported Versions Edition Number Publication Date 466303-004 HP-UX HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31), HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) 4 September 2009 466603-003 Linux and Windows Integrity updates to the release notes. 3 March 2009 438861-402 HP-UX HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31), HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) 2 March 2009 466303-001 Linux and Windows See “System 1 requirements” (page 11).
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Index D documentation, 20 F features, 7 new, 17 I installation operating systems, 11 requirements, 13 web browsers, 12 K known issues, 15 M manpages, 20 media, 13 N new functionality, 17 O operating systems, supported, 11 P publication history, 21 R requirements, 11 verifying system requirements, 13 resources, 20 S software, 13 T troubleshooting, 15 typographic conventions, 20 W web browsers, supported, 12 websites, 13 25
