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

Configuring a System
Using Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
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consolidation clients. The system they are sending the entries
to is the consolidation server. In addition to syslog data,
arbitrary textual log files can also be consolidated.
In a Serviceguard cluster, this tool can help you automate package
log file consolidation. Log consolidation is especially useful in a
Serviceguard cluster, since it allows you to look at a single
consolidated file instead of the per-member logs. This tool needs
to be run only once in the cluster and not on each cluster member.
All cluster members should be up when running this wizard.
clog_wizard will prompt you for information to configure log
file consolidation. Some of these questions have a default
answer contained within square brackets. If you press Return,
the default answer is assumed.
Do you want to configure log consolidation? (y/n) [y]:
Answer yes or simply press Enter. The next question is
You can configure this cluster clustername as either:
- Consolidation server
- Client that forwards logs to a remote consolidation server
Do you want to configure clustername as a Consolidation Server?
(y/n) [y]:
Answer yes.
In a cluster, the wizard configures syslog-ng to be highly available
using a Serviceguard package. The package name is “clog” for
consolidated logging. The LVM storage configuration and network
configuration for the package must be set up before continuing or before
running the wizard. For additional details, refer to Managing
Serviceguard, in Chapter 5, “Building an HA Cluster Configuration,” in
the section “Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM.”
NOTE The wizard only supports creating packages based on LVM volume
groups. When using CFS or VxVM, manual configuration is required. See
the section “Manually Configuring Log Consolidation” on page 208 for
details.