System Management Homepage (SMH) Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) V2.7 Release Notes (766163-001, March 2014)

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Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) V2.7 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)
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
following steps:
1. In the address bar of the browser window, enter http://<hostname>:2301
The HP SMH Login page appears.
2. Log in to HP System Management Homepage using your user name and password.
3. Select Tools→Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU)→Configuration
Synchronization.
The Set up Configuration Synchronization page is displayed.
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