Hi, Rachel. I would be a little reluctant to recommend to a client that they run an anti-virus software package on z/Linux on the mainframe. Yes, modern z10-z196 IFL engines are much faster these days and these system excel at large chunks of data around, but for a specialized task such as virus scanning, I think it's better performed on a dedicated platform.
If your management insists on running a virus scanner on the mainframe, I would suggest that you set up only one instance of z/Linux to run the scanner, with it's own vswitch to connect to the real OSA cards, and then have all of the other Linux guests connect to that guest via their own, separate vswitch LAN. You could also have the scanner z/Linux instance act as a firewall as well. There is absolutely no justification, imho, for requiring that a virus scanner application be run in *each* z/Linux guest. That would prove to be, I think, a monumental waste of hardware resources. Good luck. DJ On 01/07/2011 11:40 AM, Rachel Malavasic wrote: > My corporate information security department requires that all > servers on the company’s intranet run a virus scanner. The only virus > scanner that I can find for zLinux is ClamAV, building it from source > code. Is there an “industry standard” or best practice(s) for virus > scanning or not scanning on zLinux? Is there documentation that I can > cite for my management? > > Also, we have some concerns about the overhead of running virus > scanners on a large number of zLinux instances on the same CPU. Is > anyone doing this? Any advice? > > Thanks, Rachel > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
