HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide, September 2007

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, andMicrosoft®
Windows® operating systems. This installation guide is for system administrators who are
installing HP SMH.
New and changed information in this edition
To review what is new and changed in this release of HP SMH, see the HP System Management
Homepage Release Notes on the HP Technical Documentation web site at http://docs.hp.com.
Typographic conventions
find(1) HP-UX manpage. In this example, “find” is the manpage name and “1” is
the manpage section.
Book Title Title of a book or other document.
Linked Title Title that is a hyperlink to a book or other document.
http://
www.hp.com
A Web site address that is a hyperlink to the site.
Command
Command name or qualified command phrase.
user input
Commands and other text that you type.
computer
output
Text displayed by the computer.
Enter The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer to the
same key. A sequence such as Ctrl+A indicates that you must hold down
the key labeled Ctrl while pressing the A key.
term Defined use of an important word or phrase.
variable The name of an environment variable, for example PATH or errno.
value
A value that you may replace in a command or function, or information in
a display that represents several possible values.
<element>
An element used in a markup language.
attrib=
An attribute used in a markup language.
Document organization
The install guide is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 “Product overview” (page 9)
Chapter 2 “Installation requirements” (page 11)
Chapter 3 “Initial setup” (page 15)
Chapter 4 “Installing on HP-UX” (page 17)
Chapter 5 “Installing on Windows” (page 23)
Chapter 6 “Installing HP SMH using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility” (page 29)
Chapter 7 “Installing in-place on Linux” (page 33)
Chapter 8 “Installing directly on Linux” (page 41)
Chapter 9 “Installing in-place on Linux using Linux Deployment Utility” (page 47)
Chapter 10 “Initializing the software for the first time” (page 51)
Chapter 11 “Logging in and logging out of HP SMH” (page 53)
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