HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide, March 2008

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..............................................................................................................8
1 Product overview.............................................................................................................9
Product features......................................................................................................................................9
2 Installation requirements..............................................................................................11
Supported operating systems...............................................................................................................11
Supported browsers..............................................................................................................................12
RPMs supported on the x86 platform...................................................................................................13
RPMs supported on the AMD64 and EM64T platform........................................................................13
RPMs supported on the Itanium platform...........................................................................................14
Verifying system requirements.............................................................................................................15
Obtaining the HP SMH software..........................................................................................................15
HP media.........................................................................................................................................15
HP web sites....................................................................................................................................15
3 Initial setup....................................................................................................................17
Installation information........................................................................................................................17
4 Installing on HP-UX.......................................................................................................19
System Administration Management Tool changes: SAM and HP SMH............................................19
Installing on HP-UX..............................................................................................................................19
Installation requirements......................................................................................................................20
Installing HP SMH and dependent applications..................................................................................20
Using the Applications media..............................................................................................................22
Using Software Depot...........................................................................................................................22
Configuring HP SMH...........................................................................................................................23
Configuring the startup mode.........................................................................................................24
Patching or updating the software........................................................................................................25
5 Installing on Windows.................................................................................................27
Installing HP SMH in-place on Windows............................................................................................27
Installing HP SMH for Windows silently.............................................................................................30
Generating a setup.iss file................................................................................................................31
Installing silently using the CLI......................................................................................................31
Reinstalling silently using the CLI..................................................................................................31
Configuring HP SMH...........................................................................................................................32
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