HP System Management Homepage

HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is a Web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies single system management for HP servers on Windows, Linux, and HP-UX operating systems. HP System Management Homepage, version A.2.2.5, is the initial release of HP SMH for HP-UX 11i v3.




	NOTE: Text-based HP SMH only supports the C (English) locale. HP recommends that you set your locale variables, such as `LANG` and `LC_ALL`, to C. A majority of the applications in Web-based HP SMH support multibyte locales.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

As an infrastructure for integrating system management tools, there is no difference between HP SMH for HP-UX 11i v1 and HP SMH for HP-UX 11i v3. The main differentiator is that many more system management tools are integrated in HP SMH for HP-UX 11i v3 then HP-UX 11i v1.

HP System Management Homepage for HP-UX 11i v3 has been updated to version A.2.2.5 to incorporate defect fixes. This is a minor roll of version A.2.2.1 released for the 0509 HP-UX 11i v1 release.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

As an infrastructure for integrating system management tools, there is no difference between HP SMH for HP-UX 11i v2 and HP SMH for HP-UX 11i v3. The main differentiator is the addition of the new Web-based solutions for Networking and Communications (ncweb), and ServiceGuard complex management (sgmgr) being introduced for HP-UX 11i v3.

HP System Management Homepage for HP-UX 11i v3 has been updated to version A.2.2.5 to incorporate defect fixes. This is a minor roll of version A.2.2.3 released for the 0606 HP-UX 11i v2 release.

Impact

HP System Management Homepage for HP-UX provides the following key customer benefits:

Host based authentication and tight integration with existing security infrastructure
Management tools that consume minimal system resources
Includes “start on demand” capabilities so that system resources are not used when tool is not in use
Highly responsive user interface supporting “access from anywhere” via a browser
Usable “out of the box” (default installed) by root with no user configuration
Seamless, secure integration with HP System Insight Manager (HP SIM)




	WARNING! You must use either the command sequence or HP SMH to perform any operation that HP SMH supports. Attempting to start an operation with commands and completing it with HP SMH can result in errors and possibly corrupt data or data structures.

Compatibility

There are no compatibility issues for this release of HP SMH.

Performance

HP SMH 2.2 is a high performance UI that responds rapidly. It also provides significant performance improvements over its predecessor (i.e., SAM).

Documentation

HP System Management Homepage manpages included with product:
- hpsmh(1M)
- smhstartconfig (1M)
For further information, see the following documents, available at http://docs.hp.com (navigate to Network and Systems Management System Administration):
- HP System Management Homepage Release Notes
- HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide
- “Next generation single-system management on HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)” white paper
- HP SMH Online Help included with the product

Obsolescence

Not applicable.