One excellent product is from Rocket Software called Provisioning Expert for Linux. It handles the z/vm guest creation, cloning, patch rollout and rollback, and more. It is still a version 1 product but is developing rapidly and works. It does not manage across lpars (yet) and has some other areas that are planned. Even with what it lacks it is still the best tool out there that I've seen for this short of hiring several z/vm linux gurus to write your own.
One area that it lacks, and may never really support as it is better handled elsewhere, is the actual management of linux packages, rpm's, etc. For that I'd suggest you look at Novell's ZLM. hth Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo: "Our cause is health. Our passion is service. We're here to make lives better." I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from sharing, copying, or otherwise using or disclosing its contents. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments without reading, forwarding or saving them. Thank you.
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