About this Document..........................................................................................................
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Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................
Typographic Conventions......................................................................................................................
Related Information................................................................................................................................
Publishing History..................................................................................................................................
Product Support......................................................................................................................................
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HP Encourages Your Comments............................................................................................................
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...........................................................................................................................
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.................................................................
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................................................................................
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..................................................................................................................................
2.4.1 Key Exchange..........................................................................................................................
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2.4.2 csync Network Port Usage......................................................................................................
2.4.3 Encryption...............................................................................................................................
2.4.4 Checksum Alerts.....................................................................................................................
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2.5 Disabling Use of cfengine................................................................................................................
2.6 Logging Options..............................................................................................................................
2.7 cfengine Troubleshooting................................................................................................................
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3 Consolidated Logging.................................................................................................
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3.1 Introduction to syslog.....................................................................................................................
3.1.1 syslog Message Format...........................................................................................................
3.1.2 Message Filtering....................................................................................................................
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3.2 Log Consolidation Overview..........................................................................................................
3.2.1 Improved Log Consolidation .................................................................................................
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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