HP System Management Homepage Release Notes HP-UX, Linux, and Windows Operating Systems Abstract HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is a web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies single system management for HP servers running the HP-UX, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
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Contents 1 Features....................................................................................................4 Product features........................................................................................................................4 Partition Manager.....................................................................................................................4 Available IP addresses...............................................................................................
1 Features HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is a web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies single system management for HP servers running the HP-UX, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
Available IP addresses In HP-UX only, when autostart mode is enabled, any access made through port 2301 detects a change in the list of available IP addresses. In previous releases, SMH would only be accessible using the IP addresses defined at system startup. If new IP addresses were defined then SMH would have to be restarted to use them.
Table 1 HP SMH integrated applications (continued) Application Name Operating System Application Description systems: Cache File System (CFS), Compact Disc File System (CDFS), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Hierarchical File System (HFS), Network File System (NFS), and Veritas File System (VxFS). For more information, see the product's online help.
Table 1 HP SMH integrated applications (continued) Application Name Operating System Application Description For more information, see the product's online help. Peripheral Devices Configuration (pdweb) HP-UX The pdweb tool lists and manages the OLRAD-capable PCI slots reported by the olrad command and Peripheral Devices reported by the ioscan command. On selecting a slot/device from the list, it displays details about the selected device/slot.
Table 1 HP SMH integrated applications (continued) Application Name Operating System Application Description software, remove depot software, and remove installed software. Time 8 Features HP-UX Set the system clock, list the NTP client networks, and display NTP network time sources.
2 Defect fixes in this version HP SMH 3.2.4 release for HP-UX 11.31 The following defects are fixed in the HP SMH 3.2.4 release for HP-UX 11.31: Defect ID Description QXCR1001184876 While executing the SMH command from the command line, the browser window that opens tries to connect to port 2301 and results in failure. QXCR1001201627 When SMH starts Tomcat, it searches for the port 1188 to see whether Tomcat has been started, and updates the status as ready, and proceeds with loading of application.
Defect ID Description N/A While configuring tunnel of ip6inip or ip6inip6 type, Disable processing of received router advertisements and Disable Forwarding of packets by this interface options are not updated properly in the netconf-ipv6 file. QXCR1001216390 While changing the queue value for iexgbe driver, an internal server error is displayed. Peripheral Devices Configuration (pdweb) Version B.11.31.
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. Also, see the HP System Management Homepage Installation and Configuration Guide and HP System Management Homepage Online Help for known issues. HP SMH 3.2.4 release for HP-UX 11.31/ HP SMH 3.2.0 release for HP-UX 11.
sysmgthp account sufficient libpam_krb5.so.1 sysmgthp account required libpam_unix.so.1 After these changes, you will be able to login to HP SMH as a user defined in Active Directory provided the user group is configured. To configure the user group, go to Settings ⇒ System Management Homepage ⇒ Security ⇒ User Groups • Issue: Using the FireFox 3 browser, when you attempt to open HP SMH in the current HP SIM window, the Single Sign-On (SSO) content is not displayed in the HP SMH login page.
volume group as a cluster volume group in the Serviceguard cluster configuration after creating the cluster volume group in Disks and File Systems. • Issue: An error occurs when a volume group is created using HP SMH. Description: In the Disks and File Systems application, after filling the mandatory fields in the Create Volume Group page, the following error message is displayed - Pvcreate :Bad input parameter. This problem is currently noticed on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31): FSWeb B.11.31.13 and HP SMH 3.2.2.
Support and other resources Information to collect before contacting HP Be sure to have the following information available before you contact HP: • Software product name • Hardware product model number • Operating system type and version • Applicable error message • Third-party hardware or software • Technical support registration number (if applicable) How to contact HP Use the following methods to contact HP technical support: • In the United States, see the Customer Service / Contact HP Uni
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• ◦ Red Hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine ◦ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP2 Inclusion of the revved open source products: ◦ Updated PHP version from 5.3.8 to 5.3.10 ◦ Updated libxml2 to version 2.7.8 ◦ Updated OpenSSL version from 1.0.0e to 1.0.0h ◦ Updated cURL version from 7.21.7 to 7.24.0 NOTE: Corrected possible information disclosure may be used to obtain the version information of the web server used by HP System Management Homepage.
• ◦ Firefox 7.0 ◦ Firefox 8.0 Inclusion of the revved open source products: ◦ Updated PHP version from 5.3.3 to 5.3.8 ◦ Updated OpenSSL version from 0.9.8n to 1.0.0e ◦ Updated cURL version from 7.21.3 to 7.21.7 ◦ Apache to version from 2.2.15 to 2.2.21 NOTE: Corrected possible information disclosure may be used to obtain the version information of the web server used by HP System Management Homepage. April 2011 release for Linux and Windows HP SMH 6.
December 2010 release for HP-UX HP SMH 3.2.0 for HP-UX 11i v2 includes product enhancements and fixes for internally found defects. Following are the product enhancements: • HP SMH on 11i v2 supports both Apache 2.0 and Apache 2.2. SMH can be configured to use either Apache 2.0 or Apache 2.2. NOTE: The minimum version of Apache required to be installed for facilitating Apache 2.2 support with HP SMH is hpuxws22Apache B.2.2.8.10. NOTE: If HP SMH is configured for Apache 2.2 version, install Tomcat 2.
• A new configuration parameter TOMCAT_PORT is added in HP-UX 11i v3 to configure the port used for Apache and Tomcat communication. • System Status and Overall System Summary tabs on the SMH Home page have been changed to Overall System Health Status and Component Status Summary respectively. HP SMH 3.1.2 for HP-UX 11i v2 includes fixes for the internally found defects. March 2010 release for Linux and Windows HP SMH 6.1.
November 2009 release for Linux and Windows Following are the product enhancements for the HP SMH November 2009 Linux and Windows release: • Support for the new operating systems: ◦ Microsoft Windows Server 7 for x86 and x64 ◦ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64 ◦ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 for 64-bit Itanium-based systems ◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 3 for x86 and AMD64/EMT64T ◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 4 for x86 and AMD64/EMT64T ◦ VMware ESX 4.
March 2009 release for HP-UX HP SMH 3.0.0 for HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 provides the following product enhancements: • Improved feature-rich user interface • User configurable user interface properties • User control of session and user interface timeouts • Capability to verify HP SMH software dependency information using the new smhassist command HP SMH 2.2.9.2 for HP-UX 11i v1 contains defect fixes. January 2009 release for Linux and Windows HP SMH 3.
• ◦ VMware ESX 3.5 update 5 ◦ Citrix XEN 5.6 HP Integrity servers ◦ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based systems, 64-bit Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components Open source software (such as OpenSSL) or third-party software (such as Java) are sometimes included in HP products. HP discloses that the non-HP owned software components listed in the HP System Management Homepage end user license agreement (EULA) are included with HP System Management Homepage.
• HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide The installation guide provides information about installing and getting started using HP SMH. It includes an introduction to basic concepts, definitions, and functionality associated with HP SMH. The installation guide is available on the HP Technical Documentation website at http:// www.hp.
• smhassist (1m) manpage You can use the smhassist command to verify the configurations of SMH and see if there are any dependent software, patches or configuration errors. For HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) and HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) operating system releases, the manpage is available from the CLI using the man smhassist command. This information is not available for HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11), Linux, and Windows operating systems.
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Index D documentation, 22 F features, 4 new, 15 K known issues, 11 M manpages, 22 N new functionality, 15 R resources, 22 T troubleshooting, 11 typographic conventions, 25 26 Index
