That's not really a good way to go. What I would suggest is that
1) make a subdirectory named "machines" in your website's root directory.
2) rename your machines.htm to index.htm and put it in "machines" directory.
3) Add this line below the line which has "DocumentRoot" In your /etc/apache/httpd.conf file.
Code:
DirectoryIndex index.htm
And whenever you will type
http://proliant/machines/
it will open
http://proliant/machines/index.htm automatically.
This will help you if you needed to add some more pages about machines.