And perhaps a set of clarifying questions: 1- do you mean those Linux guests logged on at a particular moment? 2- do you mean Linux guests defined in the directory?
3- do you care which are production, development, test, QA, or sandbox machines? Perhaps if you described the reason for the query, we can better describe solutions. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates (Sent from the wee keyboard on a Blackberry.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "P S" [zosw...@gmail.com] Sent: 08/12/2009 08:04 PM AST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How to tell how many linux running on z/VM? On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Schuh, Richard<rsc...@visa.com> wrote: > Strong incentive to make sure that either all of the linux guests IPL from > the same virtual address or, at the very least, that none of them has a > virtual 190. > > As long as you are using something fuzzy to make the determination, you can > also see the virtual storage in the response to IND USER. CMS guests are > usually measured in MB, not GB. This is a really interesting thread. As Richard notes, all these methods are "fuzzy", but all are useful; a combination should be pretty definitive. One more approach: set something distinctive for each guest -- a printer at address FFFF, a specific accounting code, etc. -- and use that (subject to other site restrictions, of course). Or do the same for non-Linux guests and divine by elimination... The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
