HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2006 Release Notes

General System Administration

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities

Chapter 5

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) is a new set of utilities for HP-UX

that improve the manageability of distributed systems and Serviceguard

clusters.

DSAU provides the following capabilities:

• Configuration synchronization tools - provides policy-based configuration

management for groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.

• Consolidated logging tools - provides centralized logging and advanced log filtering

features. Provides specific support for creating a highly available log consolidation

server using HP Serviceguard.

• Command fanout tool - provides high performance tools for executed shell commands

and distributing files across groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.

Summary of Change

DSAU has been updated to incorporate defect fixes. As of the March 2006 release, DSAU

is delivered as a default-installed product on all OEs, including the TCOE.

Impact

There is no impact, beyond improved quality.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information, refer to Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for

HP-UX System Administrators, available at

http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv2.html#System%20Administration.

In addition, refer to the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.0 Release Notes

for HP-UX 11iV2 December 2005, available at

http://docs.hp.com/en/T2786-9002/index.html.

You can also consult the manpages for the following commands:

• csshsetup

• csync_wizard

• clog_wizard

• clog

• cfagent

• cfenvd

1. See also “HP Serviceguard” on page 107.