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
The seldist Configuration File
A seldist configuration file is provided in which node group names
together with file name prefixes and files are listed. This file is read by
the distribution manager process opcdistm either on startup, or
triggered by the opcseldist utility. For more information on the
opcseldist utility, usage and command line options, see “The opcseldist
Utility” on page 181 or refer to the opcseldist(1m) man page.
Selective Distribution is automatically enabled if the seldist file exists
in the directory:
/etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/
When the distribution of actions, commands or monitors is started,
Selective Distribution in accordance with the requirements of the
seldist file is started.
The list of files in seldist refers only to files within the tree:
/var/opt/OV/share/databases/OpC/mgd_node/customer/\
[/]
The seldist configuration file lists, for each SPI, the node group plus a
list of files and file prefixes that belong to this SPI. You must add all
managed nodes that need these files to this node group.
All files that are not listed in the seldist file are also distributed to all
nodes. Hence, this distribution is backwards compatible with the
standard distribution of actions|commands|monitor as only certain
“known” files are blocked from distribution to nodes that do not belong to
a specific group of nodes.
Example of a template configuration file
A template configuration file, seldist.tmpl, contains all currently
known SPIs with proposed node group names. To use this Selective
Distribution template, you must copy the file to seldist. For more
information, see the section “Enabling Selective Distribution Using the
Supplied SPI Configuration File” on page 182.
Here is an example extracted from the seldist.tmpl file:
# This is the specification file for Selective Distribution.
# It is delivered as:
#/etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/seldist.tmpl.
# Before it can be used, the file has to be copied to:
# /etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/seldist and edited there.
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