HP Integrity rx4640 System Management Homepage Release Notes - Page 24

HP SMH 2.2 release for HP-UX, HP SMH 2.1.6 release for Windows and Linux

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only see the hostname:2381 at the end of the URI instead of the fully_qualified_hostname:2381. To configure HP SIM to always use a fully qualified hostname when logging in to System Management Homepage: 1. Select Options ⇒ Security ⇒ System Link Configuration. 2. Click Use the system's full DNS name. Click OK. System Management Homepage should launch correctly. NOTE: If the problem still exists, run Configure ⇒ Configure or Repair Agents against the managed node. Make sure SSH is working by selecting Configure Secure Shell Access - Host Based authentication and then Relationship - Set to Trust by Certificate. This causes System Management Homepage to prompt you to accept the certificate the first time you run it from HP SIM. After that, you should be able to launch System Management Homepage without logging in again. • You may see numerous unnecessary processes attributed to the System Management Homepage startup daemon. The processes are instances of the smhstartd daemon and smhredirect that may never finish and may even remain running when System Management Homepage is shut down. To correct this problem, install the PHSS_34507 (HP-UX 11i v1) or PHSS_34508 (HP-UX 11i v2) patch, depending on your system. Please note that in the HP System Management Homepage 2.2.3 release, this problem is corrected. HP SMH 2.2 release for HP-UX • HP SMH already uses the user and group name hpsmh. You should not use it for any other purpose. • The native HP-UX user authentication mechanism, which is used by the HP SMH login, limits the length of user passwords to eight characters. When passwords longer than eight characters are used, the exceeding characters are ignored. HP SMH 2.1.6 release for Windows and Linux HP SMH 2.1.5 and later provides a way for users to configure the GUI timeout. To modify this setting: 1. As a precautionary measure, copy the existing smhpd.xml file into a different directory. 2. Manually add the tag: a. Open the smhpd.xml in the \hp\hpsmh\conf directory on the boot drive with a text editor. b. Add the following line between the and tags: any value between 10 and 3600 c. Save the file. 3. Restart the HP SMH service. HP SMH 2.1.4 release for Windows and Linux • When a system is running near the limit of the number of threads or processes its resources can support, HP SMH may not be able to start. HP SMH 2.1.4 provides a way for users to reduce the number of threads required to avoid this issue. Modifying this setting might affect HP SMH response time and throughput. To modify this setting: 24 Known issues

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only see the
hostname
:2381 at the end of the URI instead of the
fully_qualified_hostname
:2381.
To configure HP SIM to always use a fully qualified hostname when logging in to System Management
Homepage:
1.
Select
Options
⇒
Security
⇒
System Link Configuration
.
2.
Click
Use the system's full DNS name
. Click
OK
.
System Management Homepage should launch correctly.
NOTE:
If the problem still exists, run
Configure
⇒
Configure or Repair Agents
against the
managed node. Make sure SSH is working by selecting
Configure Secure Shell Access - Host
Based authentication
and then
Relationship - Set to Trust by Certificate
.
This causes System Management Homepage to prompt you to accept the certificate the first time
you run it from HP SIM. After that, you should be able to launch System Management Homepage
without logging in again.
•
You may see numerous unnecessary processes attributed to the System Management Homepage
startup
daemon. The processes are instances of the
smhstartd
daemon and
smhredirect
that
may never finish and may even remain running when System Management Homepage is shut down.
To correct this problem, install the PHSS_34507 (HP-UX 11i v1) or PHSS_34508 (HP-UX 11i v2) patch,
depending on your system. Please note that in the HP System Management Homepage 2.2.3 release,
this problem is corrected.
HP SMH 2.2 release for HP-UX
•
HP SMH already uses the user and group name
hpsmh
. You should not use it for any other purpose.
•
The native HP-UX user authentication mechanism, which is used by the HP SMH login, limits the length
of user passwords to eight characters. When passwords longer than eight characters are used, the
exceeding characters are ignored.
HP SMH 2.1.6 release for Windows and Linux
HP SMH 2.1.5 and later provides a way for users to configure the GUI timeout.
To modify this setting:
1.
As a precautionary measure, copy the existing smhpd.xml file into a different directory.
2.
Manually add the tag:
a.
Open the smhpd.xml in the \hp\hpsmh\conf directory on the boot drive with a text editor.
b.
Add the following line between the <system-management-homepage> and
</system-management-homepage> tags:
<ui-timeout>any value between 10 and 3600</ui-timeout>
c.
Save the file.
3.
Restart the HP SMH service.
HP SMH 2.1.4 release for Windows and Linux
•
When a system is running near the limit of the number of threads or processes its resources can support,
HP SMH may not be able to start.
HP SMH 2.1.4 provides a way for users to reduce the number of threads required to avoid this issue.
Modifying this setting might affect HP SMH response time and throughput.
To modify this setting:
24
Known issues