Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Configuring a System
Using Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
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It is a client/server based utility. A standalone system or Serviceguard cluster
can be configured as the cfengine ‘master’. The master contains the configuration
description and configuration files that will be used by all the clients. Clients
copy the configuration description from the master and apply it to themselves.
The configuration description supports a rich set of management actions such as
copying configuration files from the master to the client, performing edits to
files, checking file ownerships, permissions, and checksums, executing shell
commands, checking for processes, etc.
For a detailed description of the cfengine management actions, please refer to
cfengine man page.
This wizard will help you set up this system as a cfengine master or to add or
remove a cfengine client, and to perform the required security setup.
Press ‘Return’ to continue...
Press return to continue and choose item 1 from the menu below to
configure a master server:
Configuration Synchronization Wizard Menu
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(1) Set up a cfengine master server
(2) Add a client
(3) Remove a client
(4) Key management for cfengine users
(9) Exit
Enter choice: 1
After choosing 1 and pressing return, the wizard displays the following
text:
This system is a member of a Serviceguard cluster. The cfengine configuration
will be defined as a package for high availability unless you answer no to the
below question. If you answer no, for the purposes of cfengine control, this
machine will be treated as a single machine without failover capability for
cfengine.
If you accept the default answer of ‘HA’ to the below question, cfengine will be
configured as a highly available Serviceguard package. This will ensure that your
cfengine master server is available as long as one of the cluster members that