Distributed Systems Administration Utilities

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU) V1.3 provides tools that simplify managing groups of systems and Serviceguard clusters. DSAU is based on open source tools cfengine, pdsh, and syslog-ng. DSAU adds several commands and provides extensive documentation for use of DSAU in a Serviceguard environment or on standalone systems. Wizards can be launched from HP SMH/SIM.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

DSAU was not shipped on HP-UX 11i v1, so it is new for customers migrating to HP-UX 11i v3.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

DSAU includes an interface expansion, providing long usernames and long hostnames.

Impact

The change for HP-UX 11i v3 extends the capability of the product.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

DSAU documentation is provided in the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities User’s Guide and the Distributed Systems Administration Utilities V1.3 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3. These documents are available on http://docs.hp.com in the Network and Systems Management collection, among the System Administration products. DSAU manpages are available in the 1M and 1 manual page volumes, as follows:

Volume 1M: cexec, cwall, clog_wizard, clog, csync_wizard
Volume 1: ccp, cexec, ckill, cps, csshsetup, cuptime

Open source manpages for cfengine, pdsh and syslog-ng are available on /opt/dsau/doc with the installed product.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.