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

This new domain variable definition is compatible with both cfengine 2.1.20 and 2.1.15.
If you are using earlier versions of DSAU as the master server and wish to manage clients
running cfengine 2.1.20, update your cf.main and update.conf files on the master
server to use the same domain definition shown in the new template files.
• The csync_wizard supports the -f filename option to allow for non-interactive use. The
input file contains the answers to all the questions that the wizard asks during an interactive
session. When configuring configuration synchronization in a Serviceguard cluster, cfengine
is defined to run as a package. The data items specified in the input file include the volume
group and logical volume names for the package. Both of these values must be fully qualified.
For example:
volumegroup:/dev/vgcsync
logicalvolume:/dev/vgcsync/lvol1
• When running the Configuration Synchronization Wizard in a Serviceguard cluster, make
sure your current directory is not on the filesystem associated with the shared storage for
the package. When creating the Serviceguard package, the filesystem is forcibly dismounted
and Serviceguard will inadvertently kill the wizard process since it is preventing the
filesystem from being dismounted.
• During each use, the Configuration Synchronization Wizard creates backups of the current
cfengine configuration in the directory /var/opt/dsau/cfengine/backups. The top
level files in this directory are the most recent backups. Any previous configurations are
saved time-stamped subdirectories named "v_timestamp”. These backup directories are
never deleted and can accumulate if the wizard is used many times. HP recommends that
you delete these backup directories periodically.
Consolidated Logging
New Features
There are no new features in this release.
Problems that Have Been Fixed
• This version of syslog-ng addresses a porting issue that caused poor performance when the
consolidation server is under load and was tuned with large UDP buffers in an attempt to
keep up with UDP traffic.
Command Fanout
New Features
There are no new features in this release.
Known Problems and Workarounds
Parallel Distributed Shell (pdsh), Parallel Distributed Copy (pdcp) and the commands based on
these utilities (cexec, ccp, ckill, cuptime, cps) display misleading error messages when the
security environment is not properly configured. For example, if non-interactive ssh is not
properly configured, pdsh and pdcp display error messages such as the following:
pdsh@source_node:target_node:Failed to initiate RCP protocol
pdsh@source_node:target_node:ssh exited with exit code 255
This indicates that pdsh was unable to establish an ssh connection with the remote node. For
additional troubleshooting information, refer to Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User's
Guide, Chapter 4, Command Fanout.
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