That is sad ... I wonder who decided it was a requirement. Keep a foot in the door - they might realize there was another reason for moving things to z in the first place and might not be able to shoehorn some of them out? Maybe it's time for an environmental impact survey or something... and make the issue power consumption and not what antivirus is run... all these suits need is a rabbit to chase ;-)
Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:03 AM, CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) < james.chap...@cbp.dhs.gov> wrote: > Here the sad ending to this problem, our management has decided that since > Symantec or anyone else actively supports an AV Agent for Linux on the z > Platform (s390x), they are moving all Linux based application off the > mainframe to distributive servers by the end of October... Any good job > openings out there ;-(, I am hitting the pavement, future here not good. > > James Chaplin, ITIL® v3 Foundation > Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Marcy Cortes > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:24 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) for installation on zLinux? > > We've been given an exception because it doesn't exist for z. > Not a bad thing imnsho :) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 5:35 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [LINUX-390] Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) for installation > on zLinux? > > Fellow Penguin Mainframers, > Has anyone installed Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) on Linux (RHEL or > SUSE) on the s390x architecture? We have been given a "Security > Requirement" that this vendor specific software has to be in place, and we > cannot even verify that they support the s390x architecture. Please share > any experience you may have with this if your shop has gone down this path > and implemented SEP. > > James Chaplin, ITIL(r) v3 Foundation > Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux > CA Technologies > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
