HP Operations Manager for UNIX Administrator’s Reference

Installing and Updating the HPOM Configuration on the Managed Nodes
Selective Distribution of User-selected Files to Managed Nodes
Selective Distribution of User-selected Files to
Managed Nodes
This section describes the Selective Distribution feature of the
Distribution Manager (opcdistm) using the seldist configuration file.
The Distribution Manager (opcdistm) usually distributes all the files to
managed nodes from two sets of directories corresponding to the selected
managed node type, for example HP-UX or Windows. These are located
in the following two directories on the HP Operations management
server:
/var/opt/OV/share/databases/OpC/mgd_node/vendor/\
[/]/actions|cmds|monitor
/var/opt/OV/share/databases/OpC/mgd_node/customer/ \
[/]/actions|cmds|monitor
Where [/] is the directory specific to the operating system
and possibly the communication type of the node to which you want to
distribute files.
The files contained within the vendor tree:
/var/opt/OV/share/databases/OpC/mgd_node/vendor
are used for the default configuration of HPOM and are always
distributed. The files contained in the customer tree are needed only if
templates are assigned and distributed.
Normally, files are distributed which are not needed on a specific node.
This problem is especially noticeable with the HP Operations Smart
Plug-ins (SPIs). The SPI binaries can be very large and when distributed
to all target nodes, may occupy a significant amount of network
bandwidth during distribution and large amounts of disk space on the
managed nodes.
The Selective Distribution functionality gives you greater flexibility in
distributing files from the HP Operations management server. You can
prevent distribution of a user-selected set of files and binaries, for
example, files belonging to a SPI, from actions|cmds|monitor to
specific nodes that do not belong to the node group associated with the
SPI.
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