Managing Serviceguard Seventeenth Edition, First Reprint December 2009

on the command line. As of HP-UX 11i v3, SAM offers a Terminal User Interface (TUI)
which also acts as a gateway to the web-based System Management Homepage (SMH).
• To get to the SMH for any task area, highlight the task area in the SAM TUI and
press w.
• To go directly to the SMH from the command line, enter
/usr/sbin/sam -w
For more information, see the HP-UX Systems Administrator’s Guide, posted at
http://docs.hp.com (choose 11i v3 under Operating Environments, then
choose System Administration), or use the Help on the System Management
Homepage. For HP-UX 11i v2, navigate instead to 11i v2 and see Managing Systems and
Workgroups.
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 -> Network and Systems
Management -> System Administration.
A Roadmap for Configuring Clusters and Packages
This manual presents the tasks you need to perform in order to create a functioning
HA cluster using Serviceguard. These tasks are shown in Figure 1-3.
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