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

Conﬁguring a System

Using Distributed Systems Administration Utilities

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This example allows all the hosts in the listed domains to access

ﬁles on the master server. You also can specify lists of speciﬁc

hosts, IP address ranges, etc. Please see the cfengine reference

manual for additional information

10. On the master server, start cfservd:

# /sbin/init.d/cfservd start

This is repeated for each managed client.

11. Test the conﬁguration by performing the following steps:

a. On a managed client, use the command:

# cfagent --no-lock --verbose --no-splay

The verbose output will display the client checking for updated

copies of the master policy ﬁles, copying them down to

/var/opt/cfengine/inputs if needed, and then executing the

contents of cfagent.conf/cf.main.

b. On the master server, test the cfrun command:

# cfrun -- --inform

The --inform syntax instructs the remote cfagent to use the

--inform ﬂag which will produce messages for all changes

cfengine performs on the system. For additional information,

the --verbose can also be helpful:

# cfrun -v -- --verbose

The -v instructs cfrun itself to be more verbose and the

--verbose is passed on to the remote cfagent.

For additional troubleshooting information, refer to “cfengine

Troubleshooting” on page 182.

Manually Conﬁguring a Serviceguard Cluster Synchronization

Server Conﬁguring cfengine for high availability in a Serviceguard

cluster is similar to conﬁguring it for a standalone machine, which is

described in section “Using the Wizard to Conﬁgure a Standalone

Synchronization Server” on page 151. The primary differences are the

creation of the Serviceguard package and the mechanism used to

distribute cfengine’s security keys. Follow all the steps described below.

• Initial Serviceguard Package Preparation