Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Serviceguard at a Glance
What are the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities?
Chapter 132
What are the Distributed Systems
Administration Utilities?
HP Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) improve both
Serviceguard cluster management and multisystem management. The
tools provide:
• Configuration synchronization
• Log consolidation
• Command fan-out
With configuration synchronization, you specify a specific server as your
configuration master; all your other systems are defined as clients. The
configuration master retains copies of all files that you want
synchronized across your clients. For example, synchronization actions
can include updating client files from the configuration master, executing
shell commands, or checking for certain processes.
With log consolidation, logs from all systems you manage, whether in a
cluster or not, can send their logs (system, package, and cluster) to a
single location on the consolidation node from which they are easily
monitored. All systems must be in a cluster or connected by a network to
use consolidated logging.
With command fan-out, you can send the same command to all systems
in your configuration in a single action.
For additional information on DSAU, refer to the Managing Systems
andWorkgroups manual, posted at http://docs.hp.com.