HP OpenVMS Systems

The key features of HP SMH for OpenVMS are its system administration capabilities and its ability to display details of hardware attributes. The HP SMH solution provides an easy-to-use interface for displaying hardware fault and status monitoring, system thresholds, and diagnostics for an individual server by aggregating the data from HP web-based agents.

HP SMH integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), the strategic platform for multi-system management from HP. HP SIM provides multi-systems management capability by providing administrators single sign-on access to HP SMH on managed servers (stand-alone or partitioned) from a central console.

The following are the new features in HP SMH V2.0:

Storage

• Support for LSI SAS 1068X Controllers   HP SMH supports the display of physical disks and logical units that are attached to the LSI SAS 1068X controllers on OpenVMS V8.3 and later.

  HP SMH GUI displays the following information:

  • Physical disks connected to the controller
  • Details of the physical disks, such as SASAddress, model, status
  • Logical unit details and their status
  • Associations between physical disks, hot spares and the logical unit

  HP SMH also raises Traps if the status of the physical disk or logical unit changes. For example, a Trap is raised when a physical disk is removed. Similarly, Traps are also raised when the status of a logical unit changes.

Security

• Configurable SNMP Non-Public READ Community   HP SMH for OpenVMS removes the restriction present in HP Insight Management Agents for SNMP Read community name "public". To use any configured SNMP community, change the SNMP read and write community entry in the SMH$SPECIFIC:[CONF]SNMPCOMMUNITY_CONFIG.DAT file and restart HP SMH.

  Note: The SNMP community names are case sensitive.

Others

• Installation of HP SMH on Disk other than System Disk   HP SMH for OpenVMS can be installed either on the system disk or any other disk, by using the /DESTINATION qualifier.

  Note: Ensure that the disk on which HP SMH is installed is an ODS-5 disk. For more information, see the HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide.

• Consistent Display/GUI   HP SMH for OpenVMS supports a consistent display/GUI that is similar to Windows or Linux HP SMH implementations. HP SMH is based on standard apache web server (HP Secure Web Server) and enables the use of latest web server capabilities, such as rendering PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) pages and JavaScript/CGI files.

The following problems are corrected in V2.0:

• Starting the WBEM$CPQHEALTH process of HP Insight Management Agents locks the OPERATOR.LOG file.
• Insight Management Agents Device Homepage URL cannot be accessed if the Language Settings of the web browser is not set to English. Currently with HP SMH, selecting any language option in the web browser will always display English.

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