System Management Homepage 7.3 Update 1 Release Notes

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. 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 Smart Storage Administrator
• HP Software Version Control Agents
The HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows provides the
features described in Product features. They are applicable to all releases, except where noted.
Product features
• Provides security for HP Insight Management Agents using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for
Linux and Windows.
• Provides web-based applications and security using SSL.
• Enables you to configure the trust mode level.
• Manages the user system access through the user group account.
• Displays all HP Web-enabled System Management Software that provides information to HP
SMH.
• 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 - 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.
• Consolidated API logging for HP SMH and WebApps: Provides an option to log the critical
and major events of both the HP SMH and its WebApps to the system log for viewing and
auditing.
Partition Manager
To start Partition Manager, a user with Administrator (root) privileges can run the parmgr command
with the -b option to bypass the authentication step under HP SMH. To use this feature on HP-UX
11i v1, you must install KRNG11i, the Strong Random Number Generator software for HPUX
11iv1, available from the Software Depot web site at http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot.
4 Features