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

Conﬁguring a System

Using Distributed Systems Administration Utilities

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Keys have been created, now distributing....

The client <new client> has been added to the cfengine domain

The wizard conﬁgures each new client to run cfservd so it can respond to

cfrun requests and adds the client to master’s cfrun.hosts ﬁle.

Manual Conﬁguration

The following sections describe the steps required to manually conﬁgure

cfengine master conﬁguration synchronization servers or managed

clients. Note that it typically easier to start by using the csync_wizard

(see csync_wizard (1m)) and then modifying the resulting conﬁguration

instead of starting from scratch. This is especially true in a Serviceguard

cluster where the wizard helps set up the package and takes care of

propagating the correct conﬁguration ﬁles to all members of the cluster.

When performing manual conﬁgurations, it is possible to create

conﬁgurations that cannot subsequently be managed by the

csync_wizard. For example, the wizard supports only single DNS

domain conﬁgurations. When manually conﬁguring multi-domain

conﬁgurations, you cannot use the wizard to add and remove clients.

NOTE You can use csshsetup to conﬁgure a trust relationship between the

master server and the managed clients. This will allow you to use

command fanout commands such as cexec and ccp (see cexec (1) and

ccp (1)). Using these commands can simplify the conﬁguration steps

described below when ﬁles need to be distributed to managed clients.

Manually Conﬁguring a Standalone Synchronization Server

Perform the following one-time steps to conﬁgure a standalone system as

a cfengine master server:

1. Start by creating the master copies of the cfengine conﬁguration

ﬁles. These ﬁles are placed in a well known directory and are

distributed to each managed client. The default directory is

/var/opt/dsau/cfengine_master/inputs, referenced in the

default templates. Start by creating the directory:

# mkdir -p /var/opt/dsau/cfengine_master/inputs

2. Copy the default templates ﬁles to the following directories: