1.) Requirements

The Management Homepage doesn't make any sense without the Agents, so please follow the Agents Howto first.
http://debian.catsanddogs.com/forum/index.php/topic,4.0.html

install gdbm:


Then download the hpsmh package:


2.) Installation

Convert the rpm via alien to a tar archive.
i created a directory /usr/src/hpagents and copied the rpm there.


we need to fool the script a bit.
create the file /etc/UnitedLinux-release
write 1.0 in there.


first we check out the predoinstall.sh.
goto line 4 and change it into:
goto line 186 change it to:
goto line 228 and change it to:

now execute predoinst.sh
your output should look like this:

were missing the /usr/lib/libdb-3.3.so here.
this should do it.
execute it again:
now its fine.

before we can copy the files we need some modifications:
open file opt/hp/support/hpsmhd.united1
comment out line 119,120,124,128,170,177,182,201.
change line 161 from:
to:

lets start copy the files:

somehow we need to fix the permissions, theres a fixperms script that will be installed later into /etc/init.d/fixperms, but it seems not working.
should do it.

now we can execute the doinst.sh:

that my output the missing chkconfig from the cs-final script aint important, ignore it.
if everything went right you should be able to point your browser on the loginpage:

http://SERVERIP:2301


SO FAR SO GOOD!

you should be able to login and see a list of your devices.
i played a bit around and everything seems working.
Please report me any failures.

the script is looking for /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2

you need the package libgdbmg1. thx for the info i updated the howto.

did you executed the doinst.sh more than 1 time?

because it takes the script from /opt/hp/support/ copies it and then delete them.
you can move the script from the by yourself to the right locations, but i would recommend that you copy over the complete /opt/hp/ tree again and execute doinst.sh again.
then you should have your startupscript.
this part is important because it copies a script for pam there too.
without it authentication isnt possible.

Okay, I found the problem in the cs-final.sh script (where it copies the files).

Apparently, it looks for release files, and does things accordingly (whether it's redhat, united, or suse).
Because I'm running Debian here, I don't have those files.
After creating the one for united linux (/etc/UnitedLinux-release), the install script works.

Also worth mentioning that the iproute package is required (which is not present in a basic Sarge netinst).
Otherwise hpsmhd segfaults.

Also not in a basic Sarge netinst, is expat. The predoinst.sh will complain about this, so this is not really an issue.

Small typo
Should be

Other then that, installes fine.
Thanks

I had problems with zlib detection during execution of predoinst.sh. At the end I was forced to remove the detection, because it didn't disappear though I had the right file on the right place (/usr/lib/libz.so.1). In the howto it says that I must replace whatever is available at line 186 with "if [ ! -f /usr/lib/libz.so.1 ]; then" but that is the same line as before changes are made.

There is btw one more "rc_status -v" on line 192 of opt/hp/support/hpsmhd.united1.

After the above changes my System Management Homepage is up and running.

A solution might be this: http://debian.catsanddogs.com/forum/index.php/topic,15.0.html
This still needs to be added to the howto.

The subject of the topic is: HP System Management Homepage is "empty", and is in the same folder.