HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview

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
• Software Installation, Removal, and Management
• and many others
Using the HP System Management Homepage you can also:
• Launch (X-based) Applications
• Run Commands
TIP: Unlike SAM, the HP System Management Homepage (because it is based on the
WEBM industry standard) can also administer Linux and Microsoft Windows based
systems.
HP System Management Homepage Key Features
The HP System Management Homepage is:
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