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About this Document..........................................................................................................

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Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................

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Typographic Conventions......................................................................................................................

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Related Information................................................................................................................................

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Publishing History..................................................................................................................................

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Product Support......................................................................................................................................

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HP Encourages Your Comments............................................................................................................

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1 Introduction......................................................................................................................

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1.1 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Commands.............................................................

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1.2 Open Source Components...............................................................................................................

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1.3 Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Manual Pages.........................................................

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2 Configuration Synchronization....................................................................................

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2.1 cfengine Overview...........................................................................................................................

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2.1.1 cfengine Daemons and Commands........................................................................................

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2.2 cfengine Master Server Deployment Models..................................................................................

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2.3 Configuring cfengine.......................................................................................................................

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2.3.1 Using the Configuration Synchronization Wizard.................................................................

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2.3.1.1 Using the Wizard to Configure a Standalone Synchronization Server...........................

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2.3.1.2 Using the Wizard to Configure a Serviceguard Cluster Synchronization Server..........

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2.3.1.3 Cluster Configuration Notes for cfengine.......................................................................

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2.3.1.4 Serviceguard Automation Features................................................................................

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2.3.1.5 Using the Wizard to Configure a Synchronization Client..............................................

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2.3.2 Manual Configuration ............................................................................................................

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2.3.2.1 Manually Configuring a Standalone Synchronization Server........................................

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2.3.2.2 Manually Configuring a Serviceguard Cluster Synchronization Server........................

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2.3.2.3 Configuring a Synchronization Managed Client............................................................

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2.3.2.4 Choosing a Synchronization Invocation Method...........................................................

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2.4 Security Notes..................................................................................................................................

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2.4.1 Key Exchange..........................................................................................................................

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2.4.2 csync Network Port Usage......................................................................................................

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2.4.3 Encryption...............................................................................................................................

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2.4.4 Checksum Alerts.....................................................................................................................

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2.5 Disabling Use of cfengine................................................................................................................

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2.6 Logging Options..............................................................................................................................

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2.7 cfengine Troubleshooting................................................................................................................

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3 Consolidated Logging.................................................................................................

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3.1 Introduction to syslog.....................................................................................................................

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3.1.1 syslog Message Format...........................................................................................................

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3.1.2 Message Filtering....................................................................................................................

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3.2 Log Consolidation Overview..........................................................................................................

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3.2.1 Improved Log Consolidation .................................................................................................

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3.2.2 syslog Co-existence.................................................................................................................

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3.3 Log Consolidation Configuration...................................................................................................

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3.3.1 Using the Log Consolidation Wizard......................................................................................

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3.3.1.1 Configuring a Log Consolidation Standalone Server with clog_wizard........................

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