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^[7] 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
cfenvgraph
cfexecd
cfkey
cfrun
cfservd
cfshow
pdsh
pdcp
dshbak
cexec
cps
ckill
cuptime
ccp
syslog-ng
syslog-ng.conf

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

^[7]See also “HP Serviceguard”.