I don't know much about LINUX, but if it has a TCP/IP stack running, how about just a simple PING from a CMS to the LINUX?
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:55 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Verify from z/VM that a Linux guest is up Well - somewhere in /etc/rc3.d you could put a script that issues 'vmcp wng operator I am up and running!' (or wng to whatever userid will be bringing them up and watching)... hopefully, vmcp is loaded at that point.. Other than capturing console messages, there is no way to know that Linux is up and running unless you get Linux to tell you it is.. I suppose one more way would be to telnet (on VM) to the Linux ip address using port 22 -- until you get a response .. but not sure how I'd code that without playing with it more. Scott Rohling On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I have written some REXX (with help from this list) to shutdown and my z/Linux guests and I also have an EXEC to XAUTOLOG them when I am ready to bring them back up. I would like to know if there is a way from z/VM to check something in the Linux guest to confirm that in fact the guest is up at least to the LOGIN PROMPT? Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
