Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) V1.4-1 Release Notes for Linux (RHEL 4, 5 and SLES 10) September 2007

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This document discusses the most recent product information for DSAU version 1.4-1 that is
supported on Linux. This document addresses the following topics:
• Product Overview
• What is in this Release
• Known Problems and Workarounds
• Installing DSAU
• DSAU Resources
Announcement
DSAU v1.4-1 is being released for use with the Linux operating system on the Integrity platform.
DSAU v1.4-1 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, RHEL 5, and Suse Linux Enterprise
Server (SLES) 10. This release supports Serviceguard version 11.18 and later.
DSAU v1.4-1 for Linux comes to you with the Serviceguard media, license, and includes DSAU
documents. The DSAU documents are also available at www.docs.hp.com.
Product Overview
Distributed Systems Administration Utilities provide several tools for simplifying the management
of groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
DSAU consists of three primary components:
• Configuration synchronization tools - provide policy-based configuration management for
groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
• Consolidated logging tools - provide centralized logging and advanced log filtering features.
Specific support is provided for creating a highly available log consolidation server using
Serviceguard.
• Command fanout tools - provide high performance tools for executing shell commands and
distributing files across groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
Each of these components is based on an open source product:
• Configuration synchronization uses the Configuration Engine (cfengine)
• Consolidated logging uses Syslog Next Generation (syslog-ng)
• Command fanout uses Parallel Distributed Shell (pdsh)
The following table lists the specific open source versions included with this release of DSAU.
Table 1-1 DSAU and Open Source Versions
pdshsyslog-ngGNU cfengineOS ReleaseDSAU
2.101.6.82.1.20Linux RHEL 4, RHEL 5,
SLES 10
1.4-1
DSAU supports Serviceguard version A.11.18 and later.
For more information on the product, see the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User’s
Guide available at www.docs.hp.com. To learn how to locate the guide, see the DSAU Resources
section in this release notes.
What is in this Release
DSAU v1.4-1 for Linux comes with features similar to the features available for HP-UX 11i v3
(February 2007 release) and HP-UX 11i v2 (June 2007 release).
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