Ours don't stare at the screens, but the messages are scraped off VM and routed over to their monitoring sw, filtered, and acted upon if need be (call someone usually).
They occasionally have to vary off a chpid or some disk addresses upon request of the HW guys. They would do a PSW restart dump if requested by VM. Anything that is done from the HMC, they do. They open up tickets with vendor HW support and internal tickets for things gone bad. They also shutdown all the linuxes on a given lpar for backups and restart them when backup is over (backup runs from z/OS at the moment). They also shutdown VM and IPL it. Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leland Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:58 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] What do your operators do? So, my RACF question and all the answers y'all gave made me think of another... What do your operators do within z/VM? The reason I ask is because we haven't given our operations staff access to any of our z/VMs. What am I missing? Why do they need access? What should they be doing and aren't? (Mind you, we are zLinux only.) Leland
