HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide HP-UX, Linux, and Windows Systems *381372-006-en* Part number: 381372-006-en published June 2006 Edition: 4
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Table of Contents About this document......................................................................................5 Intended audience..................................................................................................................................5 New and changed information in this edition.............................................................................................5 Typographic conventions.............................................................................
Installing HP SMH on Linux x86 systems..............................................................................................35 Installing HP SMH on x86_64...........................................................................................................35 Configuring HP SMH.............................................................................................................................
About this document Intended audience The HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is a Web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies single system management for HP servers on HP-UX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. This installation guide is for system administrators who are installing HP SMH.
Related information This section lists the HP SMH documentation and related HP documentation. HP SMH documentation For more information regarding HP SMH, refer to the following sources: • HP System Management Homepage Release Notes The release notes provide documentation for what's new with the release, features and change notifications, system requirements, and known issues. The release notes are available on the HP Technical Documentation Web site at http://docs.hp.com.
NOTE For HP-UX release documentation, check for the latest version on http://docs.hp.com. Publishing history This section provides the publishing history of the document. Manufacturing Part Number Supported Operating Systems Supported Versions Edition Number Publication Date 381372-006-en HP-UX, Linux, and Windows For HP-UX: HP-UX 11i v2 4 (B.11.23). For Linux and Windows: See “Installation requirements” (page 11).
1 Product overview The 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, the Array Configuration Utility, and the HP Software Version Control Agents.
2 Installation requirements This chapter provides requirements for the HP-UX, Linux, and Windows systems to run HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH): • “Supported operating systems” (page 11) • “Supported browsers” (page 12) • “RPMs supported on the x86 platform” (page 13) • “RPMs supported on the AMD64 and EM64T platform” (page 14) • “RPMs supported on the Itanium platform” (page 15) • “Verifying system requirements” (page 16) • “Obtaining the HP SMH software” (page 16) • “HP media” (page 1
• Microsoft Windows XP • Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) with Service Pack 1 or later NOTE For Linux, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and eDir is upported on Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES). For Windows, the SmartStart CD requires that all systems have a minimum of 256 MB of RAM. The HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) Operating Environments are for PA-RISC systems only, while the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.
RPMs supported on the x86 platform HP SMH supports the following Red Hat Package Managers (RPM) for each of the Linux operating systems on the x86 platform. Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (x86) RPM • glibc 2.3.3-98 or later • pam 0.77-221 or later • perl 5.8.0 or greater • zlib 1.2.1 or greater • glibc v2.3.2 • pam 0.75-51 or greater • perl 5.8.0 or greater • zlib 1.1.4-8.1 or greater • glibc 2.3.
RPMs supported on the AMD64 and EM64T platform HP SMH supports the following RPMs for each of the Linux operating systems on the AMD64 and EM64T platform. Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (AMD64 and EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (AMD64 and EM64T) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (AMD64 and EM64T) 14 Installation requirements RPM • glibc 2.3.3-98 or greater • pam 0.77-221 or greater • perl 5.8.0 or greater • zlib 1.2.1-70 or greater • glibc 2.3.2 • pam 0.
RPMs supported on the Itanium platform HP SMH supports the following RPMs for each of the Linux operating systems on the Itanium platform. Operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (Integrity platforms) Update 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (Integrity platforms) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for Integrity Linux RPM • glibc-2.3.4 • j2sdk-1-4-2 • net-snmp-utils-5.1.2-11.EL4.6hp • net-snmp-perl-5.1.2-11.EL4.6hp • openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 or greater • pam-0.77-66.14 or greater • perl-5.8.
Verifying system requirements Before installation begins, the installation utility verifies whether: • For HP-UX, Linux, and Windows, the operating system meets the minimum requirements. If HP SMH does not support the operating system on a system, an error message appears, indicating that an invalid operating system is found. • For HP-UX, Linux, and Windows, the user is logged in with administrator/root rights.
3 Initial setup You can install HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) on systems running HP-UX, Linux, and Windows. Additionally, you can install HP SMH locally using the Windows ProLiant Support Pack or the Linux RPM (Red Hat Package Manager), or remotely with optional preconfiguration using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility or the Linux Deployment Utility.
4 Installing on HP-UX This chapter provides steps to install HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) on the HP-UX Operating Environments (OEs): • “Installation requirements” (page 19) • “Installing HP SMH and dependent applications” (page 20) • “Using the Applications media” (page 21) • “Using Software Depot” (page 21) • “Configuring HP SMH” (page 22) • “Patching or updating the software” (page 23) To install HP SMH on HP-UX, you have several options: • Installing from the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.
Installing HP SMH and dependent applications HP SMH requires several applications, but some applications are optional. You might already have these applications installed on your system.
Using the Applications media To install HP SMH and other HP Applications, you must have root privileges. These instructions assume you are installing from a DVD. 1. Mount the Applications DVD. To install software from the Applications DVD, you must mount the DVD as a file system that HP-UX 11i can access: a. Determine the DVD device name. Use the ioscan -funC disk command to list disk devices, including the DVD devices. b. Create a mount point for the Applications DVD, if one does not yet exist.
Configuring HP SMH The HP SMH configuration is based on environment variables that are set by the /opt/hpsmh/lbin/envvars and /opt/hpsmh/conf/timeout.conf scripts. To change the default configuration, you can modify the scripts to properly set the value of the following variables. Variable Description Script JAVA_HOME Points to the directory where JDK is installed. /opt/hpsmh/lbin/envvars TIMEOUT_SMH Defines the SMH timeout in minutes. If it is /opt/hpsmh/conf/timeout.
off Start Tomcat on demand (default). If no options are specified, then smhstartconfig displays the current startup mode. The smhstartconfig command does not accept -a on and -b on options simultaneously. For more information, see the smhstartconfig(1M) manpage: man smhstartconfig or man sam After changing the autostart mode to "on boot" (with the smhstartconfig -b on -a off command), without rebooting you can start the HP-UX Apache-based Web Server processes with the /opt/hpsmh/lbin/hpsmh start command.
5 Installing on Windows This chapter provides steps to install HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) on the Windows operating system. • “Installing HP SMH in-place on Windows” (page 25) • “Installing HP SMH for Windows silently” (page 28) The next chapter provides steps to install HP SMH on the Windows operating system using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility: ▲ “Installing HP SMH using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility” (page 31) Installing HP SMH in-place on Windows 1. 2. 3.
7. Select the level of security you want to provide from one of the following trust modes: a. Trust By Certificate i. Click Next. The Trusted Certificates dialog box appears. The Trusted Certificates dialog box allows trusted certificate files to be added to the Trusted Certificate List. ii. Click Add File to browse and select any certificates to be included in the Trusted Certificate List. The Add File dialog box appears.
cannot access the Insight Management Agents on this system. Click OK to proceed without trusting any systems, or click Cancel to close the dialog box and add server names to the list. Note: To delete a server name, select the server name and click Delete. The selected server name is removed. c. Trust All i. Select Trust All. ii. Click Next. The IP Binding dialog box appears.
11. Click Next. The IP Address to Exclude dialog box appears. a. In the Exclude field, enter a beginning IP address to which you want to deny login access. b. In theTo field, enter an ending IP address to which you want to deny login access. All IP addresses that fall between the beginning and ending IP addresses are denied login access. c. Click Add. The IP address or IP address range is added to the Exclusion list.
If an HP SMH 2.x installation is already present, you must enter setup.exe /s /reinst /preserve /f1. If you do not include /preserve, the setup.iss is applied.
6 Installing HP SMH using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility This chapter provides steps to install HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) on the Windows operating system using the ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility. ▲ “Installing remotely on Windows using ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility” (page 31) The previous chapter provides steps to install HP SMH in-place on the Windows operating system.
5. In the User Access dialog box enables you to configure HP SMH from the following access types: • Select Anonymous Access to enable anonymous access to unsecured pages. • Select Local Access Anonymous or Local Access Administrator to set up HP SMH to automatically grant local IP addresses at the selected access level. Caution: Selecting Local Access with administrator privileges provides all users with access to the local console full access without prompting them for a user name or password. 6.
7. Select the level of security you want to provide from one of the following trust modes: a. Trust By Certificate i. Select Trust By Certificate. ii. Click Next. The Trusted Certificates dialog box appears. The Trusted Certificates dialog box allows trusted certificate files to be added to the Trusted Certificate List. iii. Click Browse to select the certificate file. After the certificate file is selected, the certificate data appears on the screen. iv. Click Add.
Note: The Trust All option leaves your system vulnerable to security attacks and sets up HP SMH to accept certain requests from any server. For example, you might want to use Trust All if you have a secure network, and everyone in the network is trusted. 8. Select IP Binding to enable the Subnet IP Address and NetMask. The IP Binding dialog box enables you to bind to specific IP addresses that match a specific Subnet IP Address or NetMask. It restricts the subnet you want to manage. a. b. c.
7 Installing in-place on Linux This chapter provides steps to install HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) in-place on Linux x86 systems and x86-64 systems. NOTE For information regarding installing HP SMH on Integrity platforms, refer to HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux 1.0 User Guide at http://docs.hp.com.
Configuring HP SMH After HP SMH is installed, you can configure the settings. If you are migrating from Management HTTP Server, the Management HTTP Server settings are retained. However, the retained settings are configurable. To configure HP SMH settings: 1. Enter the following command to start the configuration: perl /usr/local/hp/hpSMHSetup.pl The Welcome screen appears, indicating that you can configure security and access parameters on the following screens. 2.
4. Configure Local and Anonymous Access. The following options are available: • Enter 1 to enable Anonymous Access. Caution: HP does not recommend the use of anonymous access. • Enter 2 to disable Anonymous Access. • Enter 3 to disable Local Access. • Enter 4 to enable Local Access - Anonymous. Local Access enables you to locally gain access to HP SMH without being challenged for authentication.
7. Configure the HP SMH trust mode. Enter 1 to Trust by Certificate. Trust Mode: Trust by Certificate appears. The following options are available: Trust by Certificate, Trust by Name, and Trust All. a. Trust by Certificate i. To add a certificate file: A. Enter 1. You are prompted for the certificate location. B. Enter the file path of the trusted certificates to be added to the Trusted Certificates List. Press Enter when you are finished. For example: I. II. File: /home/ServerName/cert1.pem .
ii. Press Enter. iii. Enter n for next. The IP Binding screen appears. 8. Bind IP addresses that match a subnet and netmask. The following options are available: a. Enable IP Binding i. Enter 1 to enable the IP Binding, which sets it to ON. IP Binding: ON appears. ii. Enter n to go to the next screen. The following options are available: To add an IP address: A. B. C. Enter 1 to add an IP address. You are prompted for the IP address. Enter the IP address to be added.
9. Configure HP SMH to restrict login access based on the IP address of the system from which the login is attempted. The following options are available: a. Enter 1 to enable an IP Restricted Login, which sets it to ON. IP Restricted Login:OFF appears. To enable the IP Restricted Login: i. ii. Enter 1. IP Restricted Login is set to ON. Press Enter for next. The Set IP Address Restrictions screen appears. To add IP addresses to the Inclusion List: A. B. C.
8 Installing in-place on Linux using Linux Deployment Utility This chapter provides steps to install HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) in-place on the Linux operating system using the Linux Deployment Utility.
7. 8. In the Allow Local Access field, enter YES to allow local access or NO to disallow local access. Select the local access type, Anonymous or Administrator, from the Local Access Type dropdown menu. 9. In the Allow Anonymous Access field, enter YES to allow anonymous access or NO to disallow anonymous access. 10. Select the trust mode from the Trust Mode dropdown menu.
9 Initializing the software for the first time After HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) has been installed and configured for the first time, a process to create a private key and corresponding self-signed Base64-encoded certificate is initiated. This certificate is a Base64-encoded PEM file. Key and certificate information • In HP-UX, both public and private keys for HP SMH are stored in the /var/opt/hpsmh/sslshare directory. The files are called file.pem (private key) and cert.
10 Logging in and logging out of HP SMH This chapter provides browser and command line instructions for logging in to and out of HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH).
You can find procedures on how to change the configuration variables in the previous chapters of this guide. 2. The first time you browse to this link, the Security Alert dialog box appears, asking you to indicate whether to trust the server. If you do not import the certificate, the Security Alert appears every time you browse to HP SMH.
4. 5. Enter the password that is recognized by the operating system. On HP-UX, click Sign In. On Linux and Windows, click Login. HP SMH appears.
11 Uninstalling HP SMH This chapter provides instructions on how to uninstall HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) from HP-UX, Linux, and Windows systems. It also provides instruction on how to uninstall it manually.
Uninstalling manually for Windows systems Uninstalling manually duplicates the actions of the HP SMH uninstaller, which can be accessed through Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Use this procedure if you want to completely uninstall HP SMH, and the uninstaller has been inadvertently removed or corrupted. Note: Items marked if present are present if there is an existing HP SMH 2.0.1 or 2.0.2 installation.
Index C RPMs on Itanium, 15 RPMs on x86, 13 Web browsers, 12 Windows, 25, 31 Itanium RPMs, 15 console install Linux, 35 L A audience, 5 D document organization, 5 documentation, 6 F features new, 5 G Linux install, 35 Linux Deployment Utility install, 41 Linux IA_32 install, 35 Linux x86_64 install, 35 logging in, 45 logging out, 45 getting started, 17 M H manpages, 6 media, 16 HP SMH HP-UX install, 19 install requirements, 11, 16 Linux Deployment Utility install, 41 Linux install, 35, 41 logg
W Web browsers, supported, 12 Web sites, 16 Windows install, 25 install ProLiant Remote Deployment Utility, 31 52 Index
