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

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These utilities help simplify the management of groups of systems and of
Serviceguard clusters.
Configuration synchronization provides policy-based configuration
management for groups of systems and for Serviceguard clusters.
With configuration synchronization, you specify a specific server as your
configuration master; all your other systems are defined as clients. The
configuration master retains copies of all files that you want
synchronized across your clients. For example, synchronization actions
can include:
• Updating a local file with a copy from the configuration master
• Checking file permissions and ownership
• Editing files
• Executing shell commands
• Disabling use of a file
• Checking for certain processes
• Starting processes
• Maintaining symbolic links
• Tidying directories
Log consolidation provides centralized logging and advanced log filtering
features. In a Serviceguard environment, the administrator can create a
highly available log consolidation server.
With log consolidation, logs from all systems you manage, whether in a
cluster or not, send their logs (system, package, cluster) to a single
location from which they are easily monitored. All systems must be in a
cluster or connected by a network to use consolidated logging.
Command fan-out provides high performance tools for executing shell
commands and distributing files across groups of systems and
Serviceguard clusters.
With command fan-out, you can efficiently send the same command to all
systems in your configuration in a single action.