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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories PowerHA
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 26, 2020

PowerHA Cluster Administrative Domain - CHGUSRAUD updates on Userprofile is not replicated to other Cluster node

In case you do CHGUSRAUD on a user profile, which is a monitored resource in the Cluster administrative Domain, all changes done should be replicated to all IBMi Lpars within the cluster.


Use Case:

CHGUSRAUD USRPRF(USERID) AUDLVL(*CMD *NETSECURE *NETUDP *OPTICAL *PRTDTA *SPLFDTA)
this is an excample on Health Check report driven remediation action on an user profile, adding more details logging on user profile level, which has to be applied on all participating LPARs


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Feb 3, 2023
    The December 2022 PowerHA PTFs for PowerHA 7.4 and PowerHA 7.5 now includes the ability to synchronize CHGUSRAUD updates across the administrative domain. These updates are now in the latest PowerHA Group PTF.
    For additional information, see: https://helpsystemswiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IWT/pages/2269970433/7.5+HA+5.2.2+7.4+HA+4.8.2+and+7.2+HA+3.10+PTFs
  • Guest
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    Nov 8, 2022
    The PowerHA team recently announced enhanced administrative domain integration for IBM i 7.4 and 7.5 with a planned availability date of December 16th, 2022, including Synchronization of user auditing (CHGUSRAUD), including the object auditing value (OBJAUD) and user action auditing (AUDLVL) attributes.

    See the 7.5 announcement here: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/899/ENUSLP22-0337/index.html
    See the 7.4 announcement here: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/899/ENUSLP22-0338/index.html

    We will provide an additional update once the PTFs enabling the new functionality are available.
  • Guest
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    Feb 10, 2022

    The PowerHA team agrees with the request and a solution appears to be desirable and feasible. The PowerHA team will continue to use votes and comments from others in the community to help prioritize this request.

  • Guest
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    Mar 11, 2021

    The PowerHA team will use this request as input to planning but no commitment is made or implied. The request will be updated in the future if the request is implemented. The PowerHA team will use votes and comments from others in the community to help prioritize this request.

  • Guest
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    Feb 8, 2021

    The PowerHA team has received the request and is evaluating it. The PowerHA team will provide a response after evaluation is complete.

  • Guest
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    Dec 4, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - PowerHA
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - PowerHA
    Component - PowerHA for i
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None