HP System Management Homepage 7.0 Installation Guide

Signing in with Mozilla and Firefox
1. Navigate to https://hostname:2381/.
If you use Mozilla or Firefox to browse to an HP-UX system, then you can use port 2381 if
you changed the default configuration to have autostart disabled and start on boot
enabled. If you keep the default-installed configuration, you can use the following URL:
http://hostname:2301/
By default, HP-UX is installed with the autostart feature enabled. A daemon listens on port
2301 and only starts HP SMH on port 2381 when requested, then stops it again after a
timeout period. See the smhstartconfig(1M) command for more information.
The first time you browse to the HP SMH URL, the Website Certified by an Unknown Authority
dialog box appears, asking you to indicate whether to trust the server. If you do not select
Accept this certificate permanently, the Website Certified by an Unknown Authority dialog
box appears every time you use a browser.
2. Click OK. The Sign In page appears unless you have enabled Anonymous access, then the
HP System Management Homepage appears.
3. Enter the user name that is recognized by the operating system.
If you have not yet added user groups into HP SMH security settings, then users must log in
with an operating system account in the Administrators group for Windows or the operating
system group root (which in turn contains the user root by default) for HP-UX and Linux. If the
credentials cannot be authenticated, the user is denied access. Administrator on Windows
and root on HP-UX and Linux have administrator access on HP SMH.
4. Enter the password that is recognized by the operating system.
5. Click Sign In. HP SMH appears.
Signing in from the HP-UX CLI
You can verify whether the autostart daemon is running with the following command:
$ ps -ef | grep smh root 1789 1 0
Mar 31 ? 0:00 /opt/hpsmh/lbin/smhstartd
If the daemon is not running, you can start it from the HP-UX command line using
/opt/hpsmh/lbin/hpsmh autostart, then use a web browser to navigate to
http://hostname:2301.
You can also use the samweb command to automatically start the default browser in the main HP
SMH page.
After the daemon is running and the HP-UX Apache-based Web Server is started with autostart,
you can sign in to HP SMH with either http://hostname:2301 or https://hostname:2381.
NOTE: If the autostart daemon is not configured (see the smhstartconfig -a off -b on),
use the command /opt/hpsmh/lbin/hpsmh start instead to start the HP-UX Apache-based
Web Server on ports 2301 (http) and 2381 (https).
Signing out
Select one of the following options:
• In the System Management Homepage banner, click Sign Out.
• Close every instance of the web browser that you use to sign in to HP SMH.
• You can stop HP SMH from the HP-UX command line: /opt/hpsmh/lbin/hpsmh stop
This will not stop the mini-daemon smhstartd, but will stop the HP-UX Apache-based web
server. The next time you contact HP SMH through http://hostname:2301, the HP-UX
52 Signing in and signing out of HP SMH