Update "security_config_propagation = no" to all hubs in the domain

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We are seeing ACLs and other hubs security changes overwritten by secondary hubs and going to implement this KB: Prevent Secondary hubs from propagating changes to the hub security.cfg

How can we implement this change in bulk to all our hubs, in a big environment, without doing this change manually on each one of them? 

Environment

DX UIM Any version

Cause

Guidance

Resolution

• As per Prevent Secondary hubs from propagating changes to the hub security.cfg, if the primary hub.cfg keeps getting overwritten by secondary hubs, the solution is to set "security_config_propagation = no" to all hubs.
   
• The attached batch script, facilitates this task for big environments. 
  
  
• The Assumption is that all hubs are visible from the IM when logged from the primary hub. The script will will set "security_config_propagation" parameter as "no" in hub.cfg files.

 

• Steps to use the script: 

1. 1. Download the ChangeHub.bat attached to his KB
      
      
   2. Verify the location of pu.exe. Example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Nimsoft\bin\pu.exe"
      
      
   3. Edit the ChangeHub.bat script. The default path in the script for the pu.exe is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Nimsoft\bin\pu.exe". Update it according to your path so that the script can find and execute the pu. 
      
      
   4. Execute the batch script:
      
      ChangeHub.bat
      
      
   5. After running this script successfully, monitor the security.cfg for any unexpected change.

Additional Information

NOTE: This is a custom batch script, not supported by Broadcom. We recommend testing this script on non-production environments.