Simplifying single-system management on HP-UX 11i – HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) A white paper on the capabilities of web-based HP SMH Revision 1.1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This white paper provides an overview of the simplified single system management solution introduced to manage an HP-UX system. The white paper describes the enhanced web-based capabilities that the tool provides.
Table of Contents 0BIntroduction ......................................................................................................................................... 3 1BOverview ............................................................................................................................................ 3 2BHP SMH capabilities and benefits .......................................................................................................... 5 8BCapabilities ..........................
Introduction 0B Local system management is a key aspect of an overall systems management strategy. In an enterprise environment a common management tool regardless of the hardware platform or the operating system becomes important. Also real-time management of a system becomes crucial requiring an administrator to have a simplified, consolidated, easy to use interface for managing a system.
Figure 2 represents the consolidated architecture of how HP SMH and HP SIM work together. Figure 2.
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.
Figure 3. Homepage of HP SMH Benefits 9B HP SMH offers the following features and benefits: • Common cross-platform solution for HP-UX 11i, Windows, and Linux. • HP SMH is bundled with HP-UX 11i Base Operating Environment (BOE). The user need not make any configuration changes to start using the application. • HP SMH uses operating system-based Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and host-based authentication to protect web-based system management tools.
– Enables users to view entities requiring attention and drill down to subsequent levels of detail until the precise situation and corrective action is determined. – Eliminates “tool roulette” by providing a guided path to the tool from which appropriate action can be taken. • HP SMH provides system management capabilities through plug-in applications. The user can add custom system management applications in to HP SMH.
Figure 4. Tools page of HP SMH Accounts for Users and Groups 1B The Accounts for Users and Groups application is used to configure and manage user accounts, group accounts, user templates, and security attributes on a local and Network Information Service (NIS) system. Features 24B Accounts for Users and Groups enables the user to: • Configure and manage local user accounts on the local HP-UX system.
• Configure and manage user templates. The user can also apply user templates while creating user accounts and discard active user templates. User templates enable the user to automate much of the tedious configuration work that must be done when creating new accounts. • Configure security attributes of users and groups using the Accounts for Users and Groups application as it is integrated with the Security Attributes Configuration software.
• Provides the Simple Search option that enables the user to search for error metadata present in the CER. • Provides the Advanced Search option that enables the user to customize the search results. • Provides a list of error information in printable format. • Provides an option to add, modify, and delete custom solutions for errors present in the CER. • Provides an option to trace the processing of EMT.
Network Interfaces Configuration 16B The Network Interfaces Configuration application enables the user to configure network interfaces on HP-UX installed systems. The user can manage the network interfaces using the different tabs available.
Peripheral Devices Configuration for Hardware 19B The Peripheral Devices Configuration application for hardware enables system administrators to view all the devices on a host system and configure the PCI/OLRAD slots for that system. Features 31B Peripheral Devices enables the user to: • View detailed information about cards, devices, and slots, including all available PCI/OLRAD slots in an easy-to-read format. • Add, delete, or replace PCI cards without shutting down the host system.
• Monitor local cluster status and alerts • Create and modify local cluster and associated packages • Run and halt nodes and packages • Set up Serviceguard role-based access control • Move packages • View package dependencies • View consolidated syslog and package log files Other features include: • Cluster configuration wizard • Modular package configuration wizard • Cluster and package configuration validation Process Resource Manager 2B HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) is a resource management tool th
or date. Policy changes can be automated so that no operator or administrator action is required.
supports UML Profile for Core Components (UPCC)-style Serviceguard packages for consolidated logging and configuration synchronization. Use the HP SMH System and Consolidated Log Viewer to filter and view a system's local syslog log files. For a system that is also a log consolidator, the System and Consolidated Log Viewer also filters and displays the consolidated logs. From the HP SMH, system administrators can take advantage of viewing the consolidated logs from the Logs>clog viewer>svv clog viewer page.
For some of the documents, multiple versions are posted. In these cases, refer the latest version. • HP-UX 11i v3 documentation at http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html HU U • HP SMH product brief documents of the individual applications Call to action 6B HU HP-UX 11i v3 for HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers www.hp.
Appendix A: Support information for HP SMH applications 7B HP SMH Application Supported HP-UX Release Supported SMH Role Command line Terminal User Interface Log File HP-UX 11i v1 HP-UX 11i v2 HP-UX 11i v3 Administrator Accounts for Users & Groups ugweb(1m) smh(1m) samlog Disks & File Systems fsweb(1m) smh(1m) samlog Error Management Tool emtui samlog Event Manager evweb samlog Event Monitoring Service (webbased)
