Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) V2.4-1 Release Notes, Linux (RHEL 5 and SLES 10), March 2009

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This document discusses the most recent product information for DSAU version 2.4-1 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 v2.4-1 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, and Suse Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES) 10. This release supports Serviceguard version 11.19 and later.
DSAU v2.4-1 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)
What is in this Release
DSAU v2.4-1 for Linux comes with features similar to the features available for HP-UX 11i v3
(March 2009 release) and web release corresponding to the March 2009 release. For information
about the DSAU features in HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 release, see Distributed Systems
Administration Utilities V2.4 Release Notes available at www.docs.hp.com.
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
2.102.0.92.2.6Linux RHEL 5, SLES 102.4-1
DSAU supports Serviceguard version A.11.19 and later.
For more information on the product, see the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User’s
Guide available at www.docs.hp.com.
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