Simplifying single-system management on HP-UX 11i (SMH) (538076-002; March 2011)

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HP SMH uses Tomcat, in addition to Apache, on the managed node. While most HP SMH
applications are CGI-based, some others such as partition manager are Java™
applications that require Tomcat to run. However, the HP SMH Java-based applications
are accessed in the same way as CGI applications. When access to a Java-based
application is requested, the HP SMH Apache-based server forwards requests to Tomcat,
which is loaded on demand.
4. Launch a menu-driven CLI or TUI for various plug-in applications from a telnet session or
command line.
On the managed node, the HP SMH depends on WBEM for supporting the
Component/Property pages and other applications.
HP SMH capabilities and benefits
This white paper addresses enhanced web-based capabilities of HP’s single-system
management solution. It does not discuss functionalities that continue to be available in the X-
Windows-based GUI, such as audit configuration, printers and plotters, software
management, and others. The paper discusses the high level features. For detailed
information on the features of various applications, see the respective product brief
documents.
Capabilities
HP SMH provides the following system management capabilities:
• Manage user accounts and groups on a local and Network Information Service (NIS)
system
• Configure and administer disks, file systems, and logical volumes
• View and administer various Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) events that are
generated on an HP-UX 11i v3 system
• Query error details using the error management technology that includes the Common Error
Repository (CER)
• Perform tuning operations on the HP-UX kernel
• Configure and manage npartitions on HP server systems
• View all devices on a host system, add/replace cards, and configure the slots and cards
for that system
• Configure security attributes of local and Network Information Service (NIS) users, both
system-wide and per-user values
• Monitor, administer, and configure local high availability cluster (Serviceguard cluster)
• Manage requests to monitor resources on the system
• Configure network interfaces on HP-UX installed systems
HP SMH provides component property pages and a homepage that reports system health
information. Component p roperty pages provide information about system attributes such as
installed software and hardware elements.
Figure 3 shows an image of the homepage of HP SMH