Distributed Systems Administration Utilities

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) V1.2 for HP-UX 11i v2 September 2006 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

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.2 have been enhanced with updated and enhanced features to the csync_wizard, including multidomain support and the display config menu item. It also uses a newer version of cfengine (.20).

Consolidated logging has been enhanced to support text log consolidation, and a new command, cwall, has been added for message broadcast.

Additionally, the csync and clog wizards can be launched from HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH).

Full information on DSAU can be found in its own release notes and manual, the new Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User’s Guide. Previous information in the HP-UX Managing Systems and Workgroups manual and the Managing Serviceguard manual is obsolete and is superseded by the new Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User’s Guide.

Impact

You will find it easier to use DSAU, and new functionality will improve its use overall.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information, see cwall(1M), a new manpage for broadcasting messages, as well as the following documents, available at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2 (System Administration):

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Release Notes (part number T2786-90010)
Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User’s Guide (part number T2786-90003)

Obsolescence

Not applicable.