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Administration
5.8 Centralized Management
The ACS allows centralized management through the use of a Master
pslave.conf file. Administrators should consider this approach to
configure multiple ACS . Using this feature, each unit has a simplified
pslave.conf file where a Master include file is cited. This common
configuration file contains information for all units, properly divided in
separate sections, and would be stored on one central server. This file, in
our example shown in the following figure, is
/etc/portslave/
TScommon.conf . It must be downloaded to each ACS .
Note:
NOTE: Centralized management can mean one big configuration file (the
common file) that is placed in a management host. This same file would
be downloaded into all ACS boxes (each of those boxes would include a
tiny config file and that big common file). In this application, there may or
may not be clustering involved. The user may want to access each box
individually, without passing through la central point (master), using the
common file just to make his/her life easier in regard to maintain the
config file. This user could ALSO add the clustering application on a
daily basis. Clustering does NOT require a common config file. A
common config file does NOT apply to clustering, however, common
config files can be used in an integrated manner.
Figure 5.21 - Example of Centralized Management
VI Method - Involved parameters and passed values
The abbreviated /etc/portslave/pslave.conf and /etc/hostname files in each
unit, for the above example are: