Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.7 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 December 2007

1 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.7 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
DSAU version 1.7 fixes usability related defects. Table 1-1 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
December 2007
C.01.00.111.7
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
• The csync_wizard supports the -f filename option to allow for non-interactive use. The
input file csync_wizard_input.txt located at /var/opt/dsau/cfengine/tmpdir/
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
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