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

• HP SMH offers auto-start and time-out features that the user can configure by using the

hpsmh(1M) and smhstartconfig(1M) commands. By default, HP SMH is installed

without Apache running on the system.

• HP SMH provides capability to verify HP SMH software dependency information using the

new smhassist command.

• HP SMH supports the Mozilla and Internet Explorer web browsers.

• HP SMH provides the command preview feature enabling the user to view the commands

before the execution of tasks, facilitating training and usage in scripts.

• A majority of the HP SMH applications are localized. Online help for some of the

applications are available in nine languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese,

Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese.

• All the key administrative actions are recorded in samlog, which can be viewed through the

samlog viewer in HP SMH.

Supported user interfaces

HP SMH supports web-based GUI, menu-driven TUI, and CLI. A majority of the applications

have a web-based GUI and a menu-driven TUI. Some of the applications have CLIs too. Few

of the HP SMH applications are not web-based. Such applications open using the X-

Windows-based GUI.

The user can access the HP SMH GUI, TUI, and CLI interfaces using the smh command

(/usr/sbin/smh). However, in HP-UX 11iv3 you can also use the sam(1m) command which

behaves the same as smh(1m) command except that the deprecation message is displayed in

the beginning.

When the user executes either the sam or smh command and if the DISPLAY environment

variable is set, HP SMH opens in the default web browser. If the DISPLAY environment

variable is not set, HP SMH opens in the TUI. The user can also open HP SMH directly in a

browser by providing the hostname and the port number in the address, for example,

http://<hostname>:2301

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Text-based HP SMH only supports the C (English) locale. HP recommends that you set your

locale variables, such as LANG and LC_ALL, to C. A majority of the applications in web-

based HP SMH support multibyte locales.

HP SMH components

The user can take advantage of the capabilities of HP SMH from the Tools page in HP SM H

(in the case of GUI). The Tools page provides entry to the various applications that enable the

administrator to manage the HP-UX system.

Figure 4 shows an image of the Tools page of HP SM H