HP Integrity BL860c Instruction Manual

HP System Management Homepage 6.2
Release Notes
HP-UX, Linux, and Windows Operating Systems
HP Part Number: 466303-402
Published: October 2010
Edition: 1

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Table of Contents
1 Features....................................................................................................7
Product features......................................................................................................................................7
Partition Manager...................................................................................................................................7
Available IP addresses.............................................................................................................................7
Integrated applications to HP SMH............................................................................................................8
2 Issues and workarounds............................................................................11
HP SMH 6.2 release for Windows and Linux............................................................................................11
Support and other resources.........................................................................15
New and changed information in this edition...........................................................................................15
September 2010 release for Linux and Windows..................................................................................15
September 2010 release for HP-UX.....................................................................................................15
March 2010 release for Linux and Windows........................................................................................15
March 2010 release for HP-UX...........................................................................................................16
November 2009 release for Linux and Windows.................................................................................16
October 2009 release for HP-UX.......................................................................................................16
September 2009 release for HP-UX....................................................................................................17
March 2009 release for HP-UX..........................................................................................................17
January 2009 release for Linux and Windows.....................................................................................17
Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components.....................................................18
Subscribing to security bulletins..........................................................................................................18
Typographic conventions........................................................................................................................18
Related information...............................................................................................................................19
HP SMH documentation....................................................................................................................19
HP-UX documentation.......................................................................................................................20
Publishing history..................................................................................................................................20
HP Encourages Your Comments..............................................................................................................22
Index.........................................................................................................23
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List of Tables
1-1 HP SMH integrated applications.........................................................................................................8
2-1 Firewall protection...........................................................................................................................11
3 Publishing history................................................................................................................................20
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1 Features
HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is a web-based interface that consolidates and simplifies
single system management for HP servers running the HP-UX, Linux, and Windows operating systems. HP
SMH aggregates and displays data from Web Agents and other HP Web-enabled System Management
Software that includes:
•HP Insight Diagnostics
•Array Configuration Utility
•HP Software Version Control Agents
The HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) for HP-UX, Linux, and Windows provides the following
features. They apply to all releases, except where noted.
Product features
•Provides security for HP Insight Management Agents using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for Linux and
Windows.
•Provides web-based applications and security using SSL.
•Enables you to configure the trust mode level.
•Manages the user system access through the user group account.
•Displays all HP Web-enabled System Management Software that provides information to HP SMH.
•Common HTTP and HTTPS service for HP Insight Management Agents and utilities, for reduced complexity
and system resource requirements.
•Simplified architecture for implementing HTTP security and HP management updates.
•Access control through Network Interface Card (NIC) binding and advanced configuration features for
individual and groups of users.
•Broad operating system and browser support.
•Automated log collection via smhassist.
This feature is available only on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 systems.
•Command Line Interface (CLI) - smhconfig - provides users with administrator rights access to set
values through the command line.
•Facility to disable port 2301.
•Logging into syslog the activities related to login and logout performed on HP SMH.
This feature is available only on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 systems.
Partition Manager
To start Partition Manager, a user with Administrator (root) privileges can run the parmgr command with
the -b option to bypass the authentication step under HP SMH. To use this feature on HP-UX 11i v1, you
must install KRNG11i, the Strong Random Number Generator software for HPUX 11i v1, available from the
Software Depot web site at http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot.
Available IP addresses
In HP-UX only, when autostart mode is enabled, any access made through port 2301 detects a change in
the list of available IP addresses. In previous releases, SMH would only be accessible using the IP addresses
defined at system startup. If new IP addresses were defined then SMH would have to be restarted to use
them.
With this new SMH feature, any configuration change in the list of available IP addresses, in clustered and
non-clustered environments, would automatically reconfigure SMH, restarting it when needed. Environment
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changes such as enabling a new network card, adding ifconfig aliases, or a cluster package failover would
trigger this feature.
Alternatively, you can disable this feature by adding the following line to the
/opt/hpsmh/conf.common/smhpd.xml file: <monitor-ip-changes>0</monitor-ip-changes>
For more information, go to the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.1 Release Notes for HP-UX
11i v2 March 2006 at http://docs.hp.com/en/T2786-90011/ch01s01.html.
Integrated applications to HP SMH
HP SMH is a framework for a number of integrated applications. HP SMH provides the following system
management functionality (described in “HP SMH integrated applications” (page 8)) through a single-user
interface and the HP SMH Graphical User Interface (GUI).
IMPORTANT: In HP SMH on HP-UX, there are some applications such as Authenticated Commands (PAM),
Resource Management, and Network Services Configuration that are not web-based. To access such
applications from SMH, an X-windows application must be running on the computer whose IP address you
enter in the DISPLAY text box in the application's launch page.
Table 1-1 HP SMH integrated applications
Application DescriptionOperating SystemApplication Name
The Accounts for Users and Groups (ugweb)
tool is a web-based single-system
management tool for managing user
accounts and groups on a local system, a
Network Information Service (NIS) system,
and an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol) server. For more information, see
the product's online help.
HP-UXAccounts for Users and Groups (ugweb)
The HP-UX Auditing and Security Attributes
Configuration tool is a tool for configuring
and managing security attributes, and for
configuring and managing the auditing
subsystem without having to convert the
system to Trusted mode. For more
information, see the product's online help.
HP-UXAuditing and Security Attributes
Configuration (secweb)
Using Pluggable Authentication Modules
(PAM), configure account authentication,
password authentication, session
authentication, and user authentication.
HP-UXAuthenticated Commands (PAM)
The Disks and File Systems (fsweb) tool
supports system administration tasks,
including management of logical groups and
volume groups, disk management tasks, and
file system tasks. The fsweb tool supports
these file systems: Cache File System (CFS),
Compact Disc File System (CDFS), Common
Internet File System (CIFS), Hierarchical File
System (HFS), Network File System (NFS),
and Veritas File System (VxFS). For more
information, see the product's online help.
HP-UXDisks and File Systems (fsweb)
Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
provide several tools for simplifying the
management of groups of systems and
Serviceguard clusters. Configure
configuration synchronization, consolidated
logging, and view system logs.
HP-UXDistributed System Authentication Utilities
(DSAU)
The EMSWeb tool (bundle EventMonitorGUI)
enables the user to manage requests to
monitor resources on the system. Using the
EMSWeb tool the user can create and
manage requests to monitor resources.
HP-UXEvent Monitoring Service (web-based)
(EMSweb)
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Application DescriptionOperating SystemApplication Name
Error Management Technology provides a
quick, easy method of accessing
error/cause/action information on all system
errors. Use it to query or customize error
data.
HP-UXError Management Technology (EMT)
EVWEB is a user component of System Fault
Management (SFM). Using evweb, you can
view and administer various Web-Based
Enterprise Management (WBEM) events that
are generated on an HP-UX system. For more
information, see the product's online help.
HP-UXEVWEB
View hardware events.HP-UXIPMI Event Viewer
The kcweb tool allows the user to configure
an HP-UX kernel and to monitor consumption
of kernel resources controlled by parameters.
For more information, see the product's
online help.
HP-UXKernel Configuration (kcweb)
Network Interfaces Configuration is a
web-based system management tool that
enables you to configure network interfaces
on HP-UX installed systems. For more
information, see the product's online help.
HP-UXNetwork Interfaces Configuration
The ncweb tools allows the user to configure
network services. For more information, see
the product's online help.
HP-UXNetwork Services Configuration (ncweb)
Partition Manager (parmgr) is a web-based
application that allows system administrators
to use a convenient graphical user interface
(GUI) to configure and manage nPartitions
on HP server systems. Partition Manager can
also detect several types of configuration
problems. For more information, see the
product's online help.
HP-UX, Linux, WindowsPartition Manager (parmgr)
The pdweb tool lists and manages the
OLRAD-capable PCI slots reported by the
olrad command and Peripheral Devices
reported by the ioscan command. On
selecting a slot/device from the list, it
displays details about the selected
device/slot. It allows a user to Add /
Replace / Delete an OLRAD-capable card
online, to view the devices reported by
ioscan command, and to re-install the
Device Special Files where possible. For
more information, see the product's online
help.
HP-UXPeripheral Devices Configuration (pdweb)
Configure printers or plotters, manage print
requests, and save or restore print spooler
configuration.
HP-UXPrinter Management
Using the Event Monitoring Service,
configure and view resource monitoring
requests on the managed node.
HP-UXResource Management
Configure the display monitor, and configure
the X server.
HP-UXResource Monitors
Allows you to distribute administrative
responsibilities by creating roles with
appropriate authorizations and assigning
them to non-root users and groups.
HP-UXRole-based Access Control (RBAC)
The secweb tool enables you to configure
system-wide and per user values of security
attributes of local and Network Information
Service (NIS) users. For more information,
see the product's online help.
HP-UXSecurity Attributes Configuration (secweb)
Integrated applications to HP SMH 9

Application DescriptionOperating SystemApplication Name
Serviceguard allows you to create high
availability clusters of HP 9000 and HP
Integrity servers. In the event of a component
failure, Serviceguard coordinates the failover
process by transferring it to other highly
available component(s) thereby preventing
a network, hardware, or software issue from
significantly disrupting service. Serviceguard
Manager is the graphical user interface for
Serviceguard. You can then do the following:
Monitor, Administer, Configure Serviceguard
clusters. For more information, see the
product's online help.
HP-UX and LinuxServiceguard Cluster - Serviceguard
Manager
Copy depot software, install software, list
depot software, list Installed software,
remove depot software, and remove installed
software.
HP-UXSoftware Management
Set the system clock, list the NTP client
networks, and display NTP network time
sources.
HP-UXTime
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