Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User's Guide
Table of Contents
About this Document..........................................................................................................7
Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................7
Typographic Conventions......................................................................................................................7
Related Information................................................................................................................................7
Publishing History..................................................................................................................................7
Product Support......................................................................................................................................8
HP Encourages Your Comments............................................................................................................8
1 Introduction......................................................................................................................9
1.1 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Commands.............................................................10
1.2 Open Source Components...............................................................................................................11
1.3 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Manual Pages.........................................................12
2 Configuration Synchronization....................................................................................13
2.1 cfengine Overview...........................................................................................................................13
2.1.1 cfengine Daemons and Commands........................................................................................14
2.2 cfengine Master Server Deployment Models..................................................................................15
2.3 Configuring cfengine.......................................................................................................................16
2.3.1 Using the Configuration Synchronization Wizard.................................................................16
2.3.1.1 Using the Wizard to Configure a Standalone Synchronization Server...........................17
2.3.1.2 Using the Wizard to Configure a Serviceguard Cluster Synchronization Server..........19
2.3.1.3 Cluster Configuration Notes for cfengine.......................................................................23
2.3.1.4 Serviceguard Automation Features................................................................................23
2.3.1.5 Using the Wizard to Configure a Synchronization Client..............................................25
2.3.2 Manual Configuration ............................................................................................................26
2.3.2.1 Manually Configuring a Standalone Synchronization Server........................................27
2.3.2.2 Manually Configuring a Serviceguard Cluster Synchronization Server........................29
2.3.2.3 Configuring a Synchronization Managed Client............................................................35
2.3.2.4 Choosing a Synchronization Invocation Method...........................................................36
2.4 Security Notes..................................................................................................................................36
2.4.1 Key Exchange..........................................................................................................................37
2.4.2 csync Network Port Usage......................................................................................................37
2.4.3 Encryption...............................................................................................................................37
2.4.4 Checksum Alerts.....................................................................................................................38
2.5 Disabling Use of cfengine................................................................................................................38
2.6 Logging Options..............................................................................................................................38
2.7 cfengine Troubleshooting................................................................................................................39
3 Consolidated Logging.................................................................................................41
3.1 Introduction to syslog.....................................................................................................................41
3.1.1 syslog Message Format...........................................................................................................41
3.1.2 Message Filtering....................................................................................................................42
3.2 Log Consolidation Overview..........................................................................................................42
3.2.1 Improved Log Consolidation .................................................................................................42
3.2.2 syslog Co-existence.................................................................................................................43
3.3 Log Consolidation Configuration...................................................................................................45
3.3.1 Using the Log Consolidation Wizard......................................................................................46
3.3.1.1 Configuring a Log Consolidation Standalone Server with clog_wizard........................46
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