Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.4 Release Notes for Linux March 2007

Locating the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Release Notes
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Configuration Synchronization
Features
• Multi-domain support
The Configuration Synchronization Wizard (csync_wizard)
supports configuring managed clients across multiple domains. When using the wizard,
make sure to use a fully qualified hostname when specifying any client that is not in the
master's DNS domain.
Known Problems and Workarounds
Consolidated Logging
Features
• Log file viewer for Serviceguard
• syslog-ng performance enhancement
• DSAU consolidated logging with the following actions:
— Consolidation of Serviceguard ASCII package logs
— syslog consolidation
Log consolidation allows faster and simpler analysis of events occurring across a cluster
or group of systems.
• This release includes support for the consolidation of arbitrary ASCII log files. The
administrator defines which ASCII logs to consolidate and defines the appropriate filters
for those logs on the log consolidation server. For more information, refer to the Distributed
Systems Administration Utilities User's Guide.
Known Problems and Workarounds
Command Fanout
Feature – Broadcast Messages:
The command, cwall(8), displays a wall(8) broadcast message on multiple hosts.
Known Problems and Workarounds
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