Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.2 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 September 2006

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These Release Notes describe known issues when using the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
(DSAU) for the HP-UX 11.23 September 2006 release.
Distributed Systems Administration Utilities provide several tools for simplifying the management of
groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
DSAU consists of three primary components:
• Configuration synchronization tools - provide policy-based configuration management for groups
of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
• Consolidated logging tools - provide centralized logging and advanced log filtering features. Specific
support is provided for creating a highly available log consolidation server using Serviceguard.
• Command fanout tools - provide high performance tools for executing shell commands and distributing
files across groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
Each of these components is based on an open source product:
• Configuration synchronization uses the Configuration Engine (cfengine)
• Consolidated logging uses Syslog Next Generation (syslog-ng)
• Command fanout uses Parallel Distributed Shell (pdsh)
The following table lists the specific open source versions included with this release of DSAU.
Table 1-1 DSAU and Open Source Versions
pdshsyslog-ngGNU cfengineServiceguardOS ReleaseDSAU KitDSAU
2.7–11.6.82.1.201.17HP–UX 11i v2
September 2006
C.01.00.031.2
General Release Notes
This release of DSAU includes an updated version of cfengine: earlier releases provided 2.1.15 while
this release provides 2.1.20. The source distribution for cfengine is included as part of DSAU. This source
distribution is located in /opt/dsau/src/cfengine. The source distribution includes the changelog
describing the cfengine enhancements since 2.1.15.
New Feature
Both the Consolidated Logging Wizard (clog_wizard(1M)) and the Configuration Synchronization
Wizard (csync_wizard(1M)) can now be launched from the menus in Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
or System Management Homepage (SMH).
DSAU Documentation
This release of DSAU inaugurates the new Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User's Guide that
provides information on all DSAU components and their use. The new Distributed Systems Administration
Utilities User's Guide supersedes information that was previously included in the Managing Systems and
Workgroups or the Managing Serviceguard manuals.
Locating the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Release Notes
• For the most recent information, visit the HP documentation web site:
http://docs.hp.com
Search for Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Release Notes V1.2 or for part number T2786–90010
or later.
• For the previous release, visit the HP documentation web site:
http://docs.hp.com
Search for Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Release Notes V1.1.
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