Managing Serviceguard 14th Edition, June 2007

Serviceguard at a Glance
What are the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities?
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What are the Distributed Systems
Administration Utilities?
HP Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) simplify the
task of managing multiple systems, including Serviceguard clusters. The
tools provide:
• Configuration synchronization
• Log consolidation
• Command fan-out
Configuration synchronization allows you to manage configuration
changes from a single server, known as the configuration master; your
other systems are defined as clients. Changes you make on the
configuration master are propagated to all the clients.
Log consolidation allows you to simplify monitoring by consolidating logs
from all systems into a single file sorted by time-stamp.
Command fan-out allows you to send the same command to all systems
in your configuration in a single action.
For more information on DSAU, see the Distributed Systems
Administration Utilities User’s Guide, posted at http://docs.hp.com.