Re: [LINUX-390] VM Accounting data in linux

2008-05-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to thank Rob for pointing out the new STRUCTURE capabilities in the > latest runtime version of Pipelines. His presentation shows enough to get me > started on more intensive processing of z/VM's accounting data. :-)

Re: [LINUX-390] VM Accounting data in linux

2008-05-21 Thread Thomas Kern
Cross-posted to z/VM list. I want to thank Rob for pointing out the new STRUCTURE capabilities in the latest runtime version of Pipelines. His presentation shows enough to get me started on more intensive processing of z/VM's accounting data. To add something to the community, here is my firs

Re: Reading/Writing To Remote Network File Shares (Samba?)

2008-05-21 Thread Rick Troth
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Michael Coffin wrote: > Thanks Richard and Mary Ellen, I'll give NFS a look. > Unfortunately, my client considers NFS an "unsafe" technology ... NFS is "unsafe" in a similar sense to how UDP is "unreliable". Context! Be sure they keep the context! NFS was designed from a po

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 05/21/2008 at 07:25 EDT, dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To recap: > 1) VM (actually, CP) does not participate in the new SNT, > once CP has it's hardware TOD clock set from either the HMC > or the Operator, that's it, no changes to the h/w TOD clock. Disagree. See my previous p

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread dave
As usual, the group comes through again; many thanks to all who have posted, it helped a lot. Yes, the problem the client is concerned about is implementing a security scheme across LPARs (and across CECs as well) that requires accurate time be kept. Not microsecond accurate, but more accurate th

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
R; <>< wrote: >It's not that it doesn't work, it's just that we found the cost of changing >from the Linux norm to be greater than the advantage. Exactly. There's enough other different areas that generate enough quizzical looks. Plus the unix security baseline here says it has to be run and

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 05/21/2008 at 02:43 EDT, dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is: what > happens if z/VM is running on one of those LPARs and PR/SM, > under the covers, keeps updating z/VM's hardware TOD clock? As CP perceives time, nothing happens. The clock keeps on ticking. But to th

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Rick Troth
Hi, Mike, ... Two things seem to have gotten run together in my post. I meant to say that running the NTP server on all guests is better in terms of impact to the VM host than running a poorly scheduled MULTIPLICITY of 'ntpdate' jobs nightly. At my shop, we introduced an arbitrary staggering of t

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've been running NTP for every with no ill effects. Our > authentication product requires it be there (to active directory so > presumably Kerberos is the reason). The requirements of Kerberos are moderate and require

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
We've been running NTP for every with no ill effects. Our authentication product requires it be there (to active directory so presumably Kerberos is the reason). Now.. Funny this topic should come up. I was about to ask about this which came out the SLES 10 SP2 Release notes: http://www.novell.

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The spiffy thing about time on System z is that the clock is incredibly > stable. (Ticks at the right rate, though may be off by several minutes. > It's always off by the same "several minutes" to great precision.) If we

Re: Devices Statement

2008-05-21 Thread Mark Wheeler
Richard, See HELP CPSET DEVICES. Mark L. Wheeler IT Infrastructure, 3M Center B224-4N-20, St Paul MN 55144 Tel: (651) 733-4355, Fax: (651) 736-7689 mlwheeler at mmm.com -- "I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of th

Devices Statement

2008-05-21 Thread Schuh, Richard
Is there any way to dynamically turn specific devices included in a Devices_Notaccepted statement in the SYSTEM CONFIG file into accepted and usable devices in z/VM 5.2? I know that I can make them Sensed via the SET RDEVICE command; however, that looks to be a documented waste of time. NOTACCEPTe

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 05/21/2008 at 12:45 EDT, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A client has just installed a z10 system, with the STP server and NTP client > support enabled. In one LPAR there is z/OS 1.9 running and exploiting an > external time reference to keep it's LPAR time accurate. With S

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Thomas Kern
The overhead isn't too much. We have a script in /etc/cron.daily that run s the ntpd program once and goes away. If I was concerned about the overhea d, I would do this at IPL and once a week since we don't drift more than a second every year, but our HMC clock is off by 3 seconds. I got the scrip

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread David Boyes
Now I'm confused. You write: > Running the NTP server is a whole lot better than even a daily 'ntpdate' via CRON. and > The spiffy thing about time on System z is that the clock is incredibly stable. So which is it? Both are true - the key problem is that if the operator is off when he

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Rick, Now I'm confused. You write: > Running the NTP server is a whole lot better than even a daily 'ntpdate' via CRON. and > The spiffy thing about time on System z is that the clock is incredibly stable. So which is it? We wrote about having one server running the full xntpd to a reliable

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:42 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10. > > Thanks, Tom, I appreciate it. However, I would prefer not to > have t

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Richard Troth
To your first paragraph, Dave, actually, umm, no. The overhead is really small for [X]NTPD on Linux. I agree that NTP in each Linux is silly. But the evidence suggests that NTPD is the best behaved, smallest footprint, and all decency of the many daemons possessing virtual Linuxen. In my shop, XN

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread dave
Thanks, Tom, I appreciate it. However, I would prefer not to have to run NTP clients in each of the Linux images due to the overhead that can produce. I think the point of confusion here is, at least to me, that the z10 technical overview document seems to imply that STP will be used to synchroniz

Re: z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Thomas Kern
I don't think that IBM has announced the ability for z/VM to update its clock on the fly with input from an STP/NTP service. SLES10, however, can use an external NTP source to update its own clock (separate from the z/V M supervisor). I do this because our hobbit server will complain (softly bu t

z/VM, NTP, and the z/10.

2008-05-21 Thread Dave Jones
A client has just installed a z10 system, with the STP server and NTP cli ent support enabled. In one LPAR there is z/OS 1.9 running and exploiting an external time reference to keep it's LPAR time accurate. With the new z/1 0 STP and NTP client functions available, can the time in the z/VM LPAR al