Distributed Systems Administration Utilities

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) provides tools that simplify managing groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters. DSAU is based on open source tools cfengine, pdsh, and syslog-ng and consists of three primary components:

Configuration synchronization tools that use Configuration Engine (cfengine)
Consolidated logging tools that use Syslog Next Generation (syslog-ng)
Command fanout tools that use Parallel Distributed Shell (pdsh)

DSAU provides wizards for managing systems. The wizards can be launched from HP SMH/HP SIM.

Summary of Change

This release of DSAU (V2.4) offers the following enhancements:

Web-based graphical user interface for the csync and clog CLI wizards. The new interface is available as plugins — Configuration Synchronization and Consolidated Logging — to HP SMH. The plugins support all features currently supported in the CLI wizards.
IPv6 support
Serviceguard 11.19 certification

System Log Viewer is now renamed to System and Consolidated Log Viewer.

For more information about the changes in this release, see the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) V2.4 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009.

Impact

You can benefit from the ease-of-use that the web-based interface provides for configuration synchronization and consolidated logging.

Compatibility

There is no known compatibility issue.

Performance

There is no known performance issue.

Documentation

The following documents are available on http://docs.hp.com (navigate to Network and Systems Management, then to System Administration):
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Release Notes
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User's Guide
The following manpages are available in the 1M and 1 manual page volumes:
- 1M: cexec, cwall, clog_wizard, clog, csync_wizard
- 1: ccp, cexec, ckill, cps, csshsetup, cuptime
Open source manpages for cfengine, pdsh, and syslog-ng are available with the installed product at the location opt/dsau/doc.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.