System Management Homepage 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide

7 Installing HP SMH directly on Itanium-based Linux
operating systems
Installation for Itanium-based Linux operating systems
The HP SMH installation for Linux enables you to silently install HP SMH on Itanium-based operating systems.
After the installation is complete, you can configure the HP SMH settings.
NOTE: To install HP SMH, you must log in as root user.
Installing HP SMH on Itanium-based Linux operating systems
To install HP SMH on Itanium-based operating systems, your system must meet the minimum requirements.
In addition, you must have the hpsmh-6.x.x-y.i386.rpm.
To install HP SMH, enter the following command line:
rpm –ivh hpsmh-6.x.x-y.i386.rpm
A message appears indicating that HP SMH installed successfully with default configuration values.
For more information regarding minimum requirements, see Chapter 1 “Installation requirements”.
Configuring HP SMH
After the HP SMH is installed, you can configure the settings. If you are migrating from a version of HP SMH
prior to 3.0, the previous settings are retained. However, the retained settings are configurable.
To configure the HP SMH settings:
1. Enter the following command to start the configuration:
/opt/hp/hpsmh/smhconfig/hpSMHSetup.pl
The Welcome screen indicates that you can configure security and access parameters for HP SMH and
related HP web-based management tools.
2. Press Enter. The Operating System Groups screen appears.
The Operating System Groups screen enables you to add or delete operating system groups in HP
SMH. The following options are available:
• To add a group:
At the prompt, enter 1 to add a group. The Add Operating System Groups screen displays
the operating system group lists.
Note: You can add up to five existing operating system group entries for each group.
1.
Enter one of the following options to assign the operating system group to the Administrator
Group List:
• Enter 1 for Administrator.
For example, to add admin1 to the Administrator operating system group:
1. Enter 1 for Administrator.
2. At the prompt, Enter the name of the operating system group: enter
admin1.
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