System Management Homepage 6.1 Installation and Configuration Guide
1 Product overview
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 Microsoft Windows operating
systems. HP SMH aggregates and displays data from Web Agents and other HP Web-enabled System
Management Software that includes:
• HP Insight Diagnostics
• Array Configuration Utility
• HP Software Version Control Agents
HP SMH enables you to view in-depth hardware configuration and status data, performance metrics, system
thresholds, diagnostics, and software version control information using a single intuitive interface.
Product features
HP SMH provides the following enhanced security and streamlined operations for HP servers running HP-UX,
Linux, and Windows operating systems.
• Browser access using operating system-based Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-secure authentication.
• Common HTTP and HTTPS service for HP Insight Management Agents and utilities, for reduced complexity
and system resource requirements.
• Simplified architecture for implementing HTTP security and HP management updates.
• Access control through Network Interface Card (NIC) binding and advanced configuration features for
individual and groups of users.
• Broad operating system and browser support.
• Automated log collection via smhassist.
This feature is available only on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 systems.
• Command Line Interface (CLI) - smhconfig - that provides users with administrator rights access to set
values through the command line.
• Facility to disable port 2301.
• Logging into syslog the activities related to login and logout performed on HP SMH.
This feature is available only on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 systems.
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