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The System Management Homepage framework

The System Management Homepage framework plays several roles in the Insight Management Agents
architecture. It retrieves and displays the detailed management information for a managed server
through the System Management Homepage. The framework also provides a set of services that are
integral to delivering many of the special features that are part of the overall Systems Insight
Management solution. These include a web server and its various web applications, as well as the
Secure Task Execution and Configure Agent Settings services. Figure 6 shows a detailed view of the
SMH framework, which is part of the overall Insight Management Agents architecture shown in Figure
1.
Figure 6. The System Management Homepage framework

System Management Homepage web server

At the heart of the SMH framework is an Apache-based web server and an infrastructure for
supporting a set of plug-in web applications developed by HP. These web applications retrieve the
detailed information on the managed server from the MIB, put it into a meaningful format, and create
the HTML pages that comprise the System Management Homepage. The system administrator can
then use a web browser to view these pages that are delivered from the SMH web server of each
managed system.
The SMH web server also provides the execution platform for additional web-based applications that
are part of the overall Insight Management system. These include the web-based implementations of
HP Diagnostics and the HP Array Configuration Utility, as well as applications such as the HP Version
Control Agent. Although it is Apache-based, the SMH web server is a locked-down, non-extensible
version of the Apache server that is not accessible for general purpose use by other applications
running on the server.
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