Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.4 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 June 2007

1 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.4 Release
Notes
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)
What's in This Version
The 1.4 version of DSAU synchronizes the DSAU features across HP-UX releases and Linux.
Thus, DSAU on HP–UX 11i v3, HP–UX 11i v2, and Linux now have the same features. 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 cfengineOS ReleaseDSAU KitDSAU
2.7–11.6.82.1.20HP-UX 11i v2 June
2007
C.01.00.081.4
DSAU supports Serviceguard version A.11.17 and later.
Configuration Synchronization
New Features
There are no new features in this release.
Known Problems and Workarounds
• In previous releases, the Configuration Synchronization Wizard did not support adding
clients that were in different DNS domains from the master server. Instead, the documentation
described how to manually configure cfengine for use with clients in multiple DNS
domains. One of the described techniques required editing cf.main and update.conf to
define the master server using a fully qualified hostname and using the domain variable to
establish the DNS domain on the managed client:
domain = ( ExecResult(/sbin/awk '/domain/ {print $2}'
/etc/resolv.conf) )
If you manually edited your update.conf and cf.main to use this technique, you must
change the files for use with cfengine 2.1.20. DSAU V1.2 and later include the updated
domain definition in their default templates. See update.conf and cf.main in
/opt/dsau/share/cfengine/templates for details.
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