1 product overview, Hp sim, Integrated management tools – HP System Management Homepage-Software User Manual
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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 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 the following information:
•
hardware fault and status monitoring
•
performance data
•
system thresholds
•
diagnostics
•
software version control for an individual server
HP SMH can be installed on servers running the 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 on all
HP-UX versions, including HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11), HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), and HP-UX 11i v3
(B.11.31) Operating Environments.
HP SIM
HP SMH is tightly integrated with
(HP SIM). You can easily navigate
to HP SMH from the System Lists and System Pages in HP SIM.
NOTE:
Accepting the HP SIM certificate is the default behavior. See
for more information.
There are also several HP SIM tools (under the Configure > HP-UX Configuration category)
that access HP SMH-based plugins directly.
Integrated Management Tools
HP 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 integrated into 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) Deprecation
The 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 the
recommended tool 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 obsolete. These areas are listed in the HP-UX 11i Release Notes
available on the HP Technical documentation web site at
HP SIM
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