HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90011, September 2010)

IMPORTANT: Read carefully any warnings that appear when you start your web browser.
There are possible security implications in launching the System Management Homepage in this
way and HP SMH will identify safer alternatives to launch the System Management Homepage
via a secure http (https) URL should you require that.
NOTE: If you plan to launch the web based interface from within the terminal based version
of HP SMH, be sure to set your shell’s DISPLAY variable prior to starting the terminal interface
so that HP SMH knows where to direct the GUI display.
The HP System Management Homepage Web Interface
When the HP SMH GUI interface is launched in a browser, it presents the above screen and
requires you to authenticate yourself (log in). Upon a successful login the GUI version of HP
SMH presents a slightly different menu than the terminal version does.
Instead of showing the functional areas of HP SMH as the first screen, as the terminal version
does, the graphical version of HP SMH first displays a system summary showing the general
health of the system hardware and providing links to other status screens (for example, Memory
Utilization).
A few links to key functional areas are displayed on the home page but to get to the functional
area screen in the GUI version of HP SMH, click on the Tools menu item near the top of the
display.
Using the graphical version of the HP System Management Homepage you can administer an
HP-UX server from almost anywhere using a supported web browser. The GUI of the HP System
Management Homepage also provides a much larger collection of tools (functional areas) than
the terminal version provides.
The HP System Management Homepage, aggregates, displays, and interacts with a wide variety
of web agents and other HP web-enabled system management software to give you extensive
control over the configuration and operation of almost every aspect of an HP-UX server, including:
• Management of Users and Groups
• Auditing
• Volume and File System Management
• Error Management Technology (online error message lookup)
• Kernel Configuration
• Partitioning
• Peripheral Devices
• Printers
• Security
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