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.
By aggregating the data from HP Web-based agents and management utilities, HP SMH provides a common, easy-to-use interface for displaying hardware fault and status monitoring, performance data, system thresholds, diagnostics, and software version control for an individual server.
HP SMH can be installed on HP-UX, Linux (x86, AMD64, and Intel Itanium), and Windows operating systems.
On an HP-UX system, HP SMH has a bundle tag of SysMgmtWeb and is default installed with the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) and HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) Operating Environments.
On an HP-UX system, HP SMH has a bundle tag of SysMgmtWeb and is default installed with the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) and HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) Operating Environments, and recommended to install with the HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) Operating Environments.
HP SIMHP SMH is tightly integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). You can easily navigate to HP SMH from the System Lists and System Pages in HP SIM. You can also configure HP SMH to trust HP SIM such that an additional login is not required when traversing from HP SIM to HP SMH. This is done by accepting the HP SIM certificate from the HP SMH Login page when first accessing HP SMH from HP SIM. There are also several HP SIM tools (under the Configure > HP-UX Configuration category) that access HP SIM-based plugins directly.
Integrated Management ToolsHP SMH provides the management server for Web-based system administration. For HP-UX, key functional areas of the HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) have been enhanced to provide Web-based management capabilities and are now based on HP SMH. These include such areas as Partition Management, Peripheral Devices, Disks & File Systems, Users and Groups, and Kernel Configuration.
HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) DeprecationThe HP-UX System Administration Manager (SAM) was an HP-UX System Administration tool that provided various tools for performing system administration tasks. In the HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) release of HP-UX, SAM is deprecated. HP SMH, an enhanced version of SAM, is introduced for managing HP-UX. HP SMH provides Graphical User Interface (GUI), Terminal User Interface (TUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI) for managing HP-UX. You can access these interfaces using the smh command (/usr/sbin/smh). However, you can also use the sam(1M) command which behaves the same as the smh(1M) command except that the deprecation message is displayed in the beginning. Most of the applications for performing administration tasks are now available through the web-based GUI interface and the enhanced TUI. However, few applications continue to open in ObAM based X-windows or ObAM based TUI. Some of the functional areas previously available for system administration are obsoleted. These areas are listed in the HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes available on the HP Technical documentation web site at http://docs.hp.com.
Additional ResourcesFor additional resources, go to these links:
HP SMH on the Software Depot home. Go to http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot and select Security and manageability. Look for the HP System Management Homepage link.
HP ProLiant Essentials software page at http://www.hp.com/servers/manage.
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.
HP System Management Homepage Help System. The help system provides a complete set of documentation for using, maintaining, and troubleshooting HP SMH. In the HP SMH application, go to the Help menu. HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide.
The install guide provides information about installing and getting started using HP SMH. It includes an introduction to basic concepts, definitions, and functionality associated with HP SMH. The install guide is available on the HP Technical Documentation Web site at http://docs.hp.com. Also, for Linux and Windows releases, the install guide is available on the Management CD and at the HP SMH Web page at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/agents/documentation.html.
HP System Management Homepage User Guide. The user guide provides a complete set of documentation for using, maintaining, and troubleshooting HP SMH. For Linux and Windows, this user guide is available under the HP SMH Help menu, and on the HP Technical Documentation Web site at http://docs.hp.com. For HP-UX, we no longer provide a printed user guide, please refer to the HP SMH online help content for information on how to use, maintain, and troubleshoot HP SMH.
Next generation single-system management on HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23). A white paper that introduces HP SMH and its various plug-ins. The use cases involving HP SMH plug-ins described in this
document highlight the features provided by HP SMH. The white paper is available on the HP Technical documentation Web site at
http://docs.hp.com/en/4AA0-4052ENW/4AA0-4052ENW.pdf.
hpsmh (1m) manpage. For HP-UX releases, the manpage is available from the command line using the man hpsmh command. This information is not available for Linux and Windows.
smhstartconfig (1M) manpage. For HP-UX releases, the manpage is available from the command line using the man smhstartconfig command. This information is not available for Linux and Windows.
sam(1M) manpage. For HP-UX releases, the manpage is available from the command line using the man sam command. This information is not available for Linux and Windows. Please note the SAM functionality changes in a previous section of this help topic.
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