HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) v1.7 for HP-UX 11i v2 provides several
tools to simplify managing groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters. DSAU has three
components that operate across groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters:
• configuration synchronization tools for policy-based configuration management
• consolidated logging for centralized logging and log filtering
• command fanout for executing shell commands and distributing files
Summary of Change
DSAU has been updated to incorporate defect fixes.
Impact
There is no impact.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
Documentation
For further information, see the following documents, located at
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2 (navigate to System Administration):
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Release Notes
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User's Guide
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
Dynamic Root Disk
Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) is an HP-UX system administration toolset used to clone an HP-UX
system image to an inactive disk for software maintenance and recovery.
System administrators use DRD to manage system images on HP PA-RISC and Itanium®-based
systems.
DRD complements other parts of your total HP solution by reducing system downtime while
installing and updating patches and other software.
DRD is supported on systems running HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004, or a more recent release
of HP-UX 11i v2 or HP-UX 11i v3, with a root volume managed by Logical Volume Manager
(LVM) or VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) Release 4.1.
Summary of Change
The DRD product for the December 2007 delivery introduces support for root volumes managed
by VxVM Release 4.1.
See the Dynamic Root Disk website, http://docs.hp.com/en/DRD, for information about patches
needed for VxVM to enable DRD for various root group volume configurations.
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