Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V2.1 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 October 2008

1 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V2.1 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 DSAU version 2.1 uses the latest versions of the open source components, and the
Serviceguard package styling is now modular. The later sections in this document discuss the
details of the new 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
2.162.0.92.2.6HP-UX 11i v2 October
2008
C.01.00.152.1
DSAU supports Serviceguard version A.11.17 and later.
Configuration Synchronization
New Features
Configuration Engine Updated to New Version
DSAU now uses the Configuration Engine (cfengine) version 2.2.6. The new version of
Configuration Engine includes minor enhancements and fixes for defects. For more information
about changes in cfengine version 2.2.6, see the ChangeLog file located at /opt/dsau/src/
cfengine/cfengine-2.2.6.tar.gz on your system.
New Package Styling
The Serviceguard package styling is now moved from legacy to modular. The benefit of modular
package styling includes flexibility and scalability to Serviceguard users. For more information
about modular style of packaging, see the Migrating Packages from Legacy to Modular Style white
paper available at http://docs.hp.com/en/12120/migrating-packages.pdf.
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.
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