Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V2.5 Release Notes

1 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V2.5 Release

Notes

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) provide several tools for simplifying the

management of groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters.

DSAU consists of the following 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

HP 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

This release of DSAU for HP-UX 11i v3 includes fix for an issue related to opening DSAU from

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). DSAU was not accessible from the HP SIM application

as there were DSAU registration errors. This problem is now fixed in this release.

The later sections in this document discuss the details of the new graphical user interface. 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 v3 May

2010

C.01.00.192.5

DSAU supports Serviceguard version A.11.17 and later.

Configuration Synchronization

New Features

There are no new features in this release.

Supported Features

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

A web browser-based graphical user interface is available with DSAU. Using this interface, you

can perform all the tasks that are currently available in the command-line interface. This interface

is available as a plug-in application – Configuration Synchronization – to HP System Management

Homepage (HP SMH). The application includes a help system.

To open Configuration Synchronization through HP SMH using a web browser, complete the