Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z?
We are a state entity and we have an 890 w/1 IFL. we run WAS,Db2,and a custom DB. Mace --- David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afternoon, We are looking at bringing in a z9 BC to replace our existing 9672, with the possibility of also running Linux on the z9. However, my CIO is concerned with the types of applications, number of IFLs required, other county governments doing this, etc., that can be run on the z9. Are there any county governments running Linux on a z-Series or z9? If so, would you be kind enough to share the types of applications, number of IFL's, data bases, or any other information that might be of interest to my CIO. TIA, Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z?
We are a federal, not state, agency. We are running 990s but going to Z9s in the next couple of months. We will be running under VM and running 2 IFLs (I believe - although subject to change). The Linux code will be handling XML input from the states and translating the messages back to our normal message formats to then go into the normal system (kinda like an XML front end). No DB2, no WAS. This is custom code for here only. Kevin -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LJ Mace Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:58 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z? We are a state entity and we have an 890 w/1 IFL. we run WAS,Db2,and a custom DB. Mace --- David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afternoon, We are looking at bringing in a z9 BC to replace our existing 9672, with the possibility of also running Linux on the z9. However, my CIO is concerned with the types of applications, number of IFLs required, other county governments doing this, etc., that can be run on the z9. Are there any county governments running Linux on a z-Series or z9? If so, would you be kind enough to share the types of applications, number of IFL's, data bases, or any other information that might be of interest to my CIO. TIA, Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z?
Thanks Kevin. Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Evans, Kevin R [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/15/2007 4:01 AM We are a federal, not state, agency. We are running 990s but going to Z9s in the next couple of months. We will be running under VM and running 2 IFLs (I believe - although subject to change). The Linux code will be handling XML input from the states and translating the messages back to our normal message formats to then go into the normal system (kinda like an XML front end). No DB2, no WAS. This is custom code for here only. Kevin -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LJ Mace Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:58 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z? We are a state entity and we have an 890 w/1 IFL. we run WAS,Db2,and a custom DB. Mace --- David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afternoon, We are looking at bringing in a z9 BC to replace our existing 9672, with the possibility of also running Linux on the z9. However, my CIO is concerned with the types of applications, number of IFLs required, other county governments doing this, etc., that can be run on the z9. Are there any county governments running Linux on a z-Series or z9? If so, would you be kind enough to share the types of applications, number of IFL's, data bases, or any other information that might be of interest to my CIO. TIA, Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
A finer points of Nagios question....
I have a curiosity. When I have individual service checks go outside of their defined acceptable parameters I get an alert. Warning or critical, and after the defined number of times this state remains out of 'ok' status, I get the appropriate e-mail. This is good. What I don't get, is any e-mail notification when a server status goes from up to down and stays that way. Additionally, when the status state changes, I no longer get the NRPE driven critical alert e-mails, even though those serviuce checks all go to critical eventually. Something about the 'down' state is preventing a server down e-mail, or I don't have it configured correctly AND is also preventing other service checks that go critical after server down is hit from sending e-mail. So the question is what am I missing? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: A finer points of Nagios question....
On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:35 AM, James Melin wrote: I have a curiosity. When I have individual service checks go outside of their defined acceptable parameters I get an alert. Warning or critical, and after the defined number of times this state remains out of 'ok' status, I get the appropriate e-mail. This is good. What I don't get, is any e-mail notification when a server status goes from up to down and stays that way. Additionally, when the status state changes, I no longer get the NRPE driven critical alert e-mails, even though those serviuce checks all go to critical eventually. Something about the 'down' state is preventing a server down e-mail, or I don't have it configured correctly AND is also preventing other service checks that go critical after server down is hit from sending e-mail. So the question is what am I missing? Well, Server Down implies (by default, I think) that all services on the server are down, so Nagios suspends service checks for that server until the server is back up. Why you don't get mail that the Server is down...that sounds like an escalation configuration issue. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
SLES10 install and Vswitch
I looked back in the archives, but nothing seemed to address this. So, obviously, I'm doing something wrong. First install of SLES10 (from DVD). The install questions are somewhat different. The answers are: 4) Start Installation or System 1) Start Installation or Update 2) Network 1) FTP 1) OSA-2 or OSA Express 1) QDIO 1) Ethernet 0.0.0600 0.0.0601 0.0.0602 suselin7 1) Yes And then it asks: MAC address MAC address? I never been asked for the MAC address before. But then I never been asked if I was QDIO, or Ethernet before. And the install use to have my OSA channel addresses as the default response before (instead of requiring the extra key strokes). This is the same vswitch that has SLES8 and SLES9 images running on it. The only thing that is different is the new SLES10 code. So, the question is.am I going down the right path? Are all SLES10 installs with vswitch requiring the MAC address? Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: SLES10 install and Vswitch
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:45 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- So, the question is.am I going down the right path? No. Are all SLES10 installs with vswitch requiring the MAC address? No. You answered the Enable OSI Layer 2 support? question with a yes. By definition, Layer 2 works with MAC addresses, so you're being prompted for one. Answer no and you should be fine. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: SLES10 install and Vswitch
Thanks Mark A lot of times I feel really dumb. I tried different responses to previous questions, but didn't try NO to the last question. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/15/2007 10:52 AM On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:45 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- So, the question is.am I going down the right path? No. Are all SLES10 installs with vswitch requiring the MAC address? No. You answered the Enable OSI Layer 2 support? question with a yes. By definition, Layer 2 works with MAC addresses, so you're being prompted for one. Answer no and you should be fine. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z?
Long story. The City of St. Louis succeeded from St. Louis County back in the late 1880's. So the City of St. Louis is also the County of the City of St. Louis (not to be confused with St. Louis County). As such City Hall contains the Mayor of the City plus 9 County Officers (some elected, some appointed by the State of Missouri). So there are 10 chiefs and no single person in charge. I.S. (A City department) is suppose to cover the City, and any needs the County offices has (if they are willing to kick in some bucks). The CIO, sees great need and great promise of server consolidation. Just no money. Trying to get the county offices onboard, slows up when the offices need to kick in some cash, until they understand the cost savings. In the last hardware upgrade we bought an IBM z/890 130 with an IFL and went from 400 GB dasd to 4 TB dasd. That all happened two years ago. We still are not in production with much on the IFL side. Lots of proof of concepts, and some development. What we have and have tried are: Oracle 10g(s): Will go into production. Many departmental databases will be migrated there. DB2/UDB(s): Will go into production. The DB2/VSE engine will be moved here. Some other departmental databases will also be migrated here. SAMBA Server(s): Minor use in production. Replacement for LANRES/VSE Disk Host function. FTP Server(s): Minor use in production. Replacement for LANRES/VSE Distribution function. Also used for the install server for zLinux. NFS Server(s): File server for Linux applications. VSE VTAPE Server(s): GPG Server(s): VSE files are sent here to be encrypted prior to be sent out on the public Internet. Apache Web Server(s): If mainframe data is being served, it will be served by a mainframe web server, over hipersockets. Future (within 12 months) Websphere/HATS: We will be testing it as a front end to webafry our home grown applications (also z/WebHost on the VSE side will be tested) Websphere/HOD: Host on Demand. This is a purchased part of our GEAC accounting system called active client. It webafry the accounting system. Keymanager for 3592 encryption tapes: When we get the tape drives purchased. SSLServer: For TN3270 sessions. PDF Server: There is talk about taking certain mainframe reports (W2, 1099, tax bills) and storing them in PDF format, so the end users can reprint a single page when needed. Right now, between test, development, proof of concept and my testing servers, we have 50 (Linux50 is my first attempt at SLES10) servers created with about 2 dozen running. My push is that if it can run on Linux, and there is a z distribution for it, try it on the mainframe. Zero initial cost (everything is already bought), I'll give you a server in a couple hours (instead of a couple months to buy one) and if the application goes into production, we can make a decision on if it should stay on the mainframe, or offloaded to another box. I expect most stuff to stay. Current IFL CPU utilization over 1st shift, about 15%. Like I said, very few users. Last week, our UPS failed and shutdown power to the entire machine room. Funny, the IBM z/890 kept running. It took 10 minutes of futile frustration as no I/O devices were available. However, even though the IBM DS6800 drives spun down, the controller and cache stayed up and recorded the attempts at error recovery from the z/890. Eventually, I shutdown the mainframe (didn't need to) as we switch from the UPS to the electric company. We would have stayed up. No UPS, no electric power. At least long enough to bring back power. How is that for uptime? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (sometimes I wonder, What am I doing here?) David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/14/2007 6:12 PM Afternoon, We are looking at bringing in a z9 BC to replace our existing 9672, with the possibility of also running Linux on the z9. However, my CIO is concerned with the types of applications, number of IFLs required, other county governments doing this, etc., that can be run on the z9. Are there any county governments running Linux on a z-Series or z9? If so, would you be kind enough to share the types of applications, number of IFL's, data bases, or any other information that might be of interest to my CIO. TIA, Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z?
Hi Tom, Thanks for all the information. I really do appreciate it. Yeah, I understand about power outages. We had one here a couple years ago. One UPS failed out right (37 dead cells), and the second one failed due to human error (Don't touch that switch!. You mean this switch?.). My 9672 and Disk Arrays stayed up just fine (internal batteries). I did lose Tape and Console controllers. 3 Test/Dev Systems stayed up, and once the Console Controllers were back they reconnected just fine. Production would have stayed up, if the Operator hadn't followed IBM Remote Support's directions to try and IPL to determine why the Console wasn't responding (remember those dead controllers?). Thanks, Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/15/2007 11:43 AM Long story. The City of St. Louis succeeded from St. Louis County back in the late 1880's. So the City of St. Louis is also the County of the City of St. Louis (not to be confused with St. Louis County). As such City Hall contains the Mayor of the City plus 9 County Officers (some elected, some appointed by the State of Missouri). So there are 10 chiefs and no single person in charge. I.S. (A City department) is suppose to cover the City, and any needs the County offices has (if they are willing to kick in some bucks). The CIO, sees great need and great promise of server consolidation. Just no money. Trying to get the county offices onboard, slows up when the offices need to kick in some cash, until they understand the cost savings. In the last hardware upgrade we bought an IBM z/890 130 with an IFL and went from 400 GB dasd to 4 TB dasd. That all happened two years ago. We still are not in production with much on the IFL side. Lots of proof of concepts, and some development. What we have and have tried are: Oracle 10g(s): Will go into production. Many departmental databases will be migrated there. DB2/UDB(s): Will go into production. The DB2/VSE engine will be moved here. Some other departmental databases will also be migrated here. SAMBA Server(s): Minor use in production. Replacement for LANRES/VSE Disk Host function. FTP Server(s): Minor use in production. Replacement for LANRES/VSE Distribution function. Also used for the install server for zLinux. NFS Server(s): File server for Linux applications. VSE VTAPE Server(s): GPG Server(s): VSE files are sent here to be encrypted prior to be sent out on the public Internet. Apache Web Server(s): If mainframe data is being served, it will be served by a mainframe web server, over hipersockets. Future (within 12 months) Websphere/HATS: We will be testing it as a front end to webafry our home grown applications (also z/WebHost on the VSE side will be tested) Websphere/HOD: Host on Demand. This is a purchased part of our GEAC accounting system called active client. It webafry the accounting system. Keymanager for 3592 encryption tapes: When we get the tape drives purchased. SSLServer: For TN3270 sessions. PDF Server: There is talk about taking certain mainframe reports (W2, 1099, tax bills) and storing them in PDF format, so the end users can reprint a single page when needed. Right now, between test, development, proof of concept and my testing servers, we have 50 (Linux50 is my first attempt at SLES10) servers created with about 2 dozen running. My push is that if it can run on Linux, and there is a z distribution for it, try it on the mainframe. Zero initial cost (everything is already bought), I'll give you a server in a couple hours (instead of a couple months to buy one) and if the application goes into production, we can make a decision on if it should stay on the mainframe, or offloaded to another box. I expect most stuff to stay. Current IFL CPU utilization over 1st shift, about 15%. Like I said, very few users. Last week, our UPS failed and shutdown power to the entire machine room. Funny, the IBM z/890 kept running. It took 10 minutes of futile frustration as no I/O devices were available. However, even though the IBM DS6800 drives spun down, the controller and cache stayed up and recorded the attempts at error recovery from the z/890. Eventually, I shutdown the mainframe (didn't need to) as we switch from the UPS to the electric company. We would have stayed up. No UPS, no electric power. At least long enough to bring back power. How is that for uptime? Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (sometimes I wonder, What am I doing here?) David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/14/2007 6:12 PM Afternoon, We are looking at bringing in a z9 BC to replace our existing 9672, with the possibility of also running Linux on the z9. However, my CIO is concerned with the types of applications, number of IFLs required, other county governments doing this, etc., that can be run on the z9. Are there any county
Monitoring zPenguins - with??
Hi all, I’m writing my master’s thesis about server consolidation using z/VM and Linux on zSeries (learning VM as I go along). A part of my work concerns monitoring. I’m supposed to find the best suited monitoring product/program for the zPenguins where I am… We are running z9 EC, z/VM 5.2, SLES9 with Oracle 10 and a proprietary software suite (a mix of C, C++, Java programs), which depends on ftp, ssh, print services etc. Among the things we need to monitor are: - CPU usage (I believe the Linux view will do for now) - Memory consumption (unexpected swapping) - Network availability - Disk space - Logs files sizes (not Linux logs) - Service availability: ftp, ssh, oracle (listener) We need to send alerts/acknowledgments, when thresholds are exceeded and shen values are normalized. The alert format has to be customizable (alerts has to propagate into a larger monitoring setup using a specific format). Until now I have stumbled on the following programs names: - IBM Tivoli Monitoring - IBM Tivoli Omegamon XE for Linux on zSeries - Nagios - Velocity Software ESALPS - BMC Mainview - CA VM:Monitor Some of these probably can’t do what I’m looking for but I intent to investigate into that… But if any of you could direct my attention to other products/programs, or rule out any of the above before I start, maybe even give some advice and recommendations, I would greatly appreciate it. Best, Klaus Johansen Lyngby, Denmark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Monitoring zPenguins - with??
Hello, Klaus. That sounds very interesting; I am sure a lot of people on this list would like to see a copy of your thesis when it's done. You choose an interesting topic:-) Klaus Johansen wrote: Hi all, I’m writing my master’s thesis about server consolidation using z/VM and Linux on zSeries (learning VM as I go along). A part of my work concerns monitoring. I’m supposed to find the best suited monitoring product/program for the zPenguins where I am… We are running z9 EC, z/VM 5.2, SLES9 with Oracle 10 and a proprietary software suite (a mix of C, C++, Java programs), which depends on ftp, ssh, print services etc. Among the things we need to monitor are: - CPU usage (I believe the Linux view will do for now) - Memory consumption (unexpected swapping) - Network availability - Disk space - Logs files sizes (not Linux logs) - Service availability: ftp, ssh, oracle (listener) We need to send alerts/acknowledgments, when thresholds are exceeded and shen values are normalized. The alert format has to be customizable (alerts has to propagate into a larger monitoring setup using a specific format). Until now I have stumbled on the following programs names: - IBM Tivoli Monitoring - IBM Tivoli Omegamon XE for Linux on zSeries - Nagios - Velocity Software ESALPS - BMC Mainview - CA VM:Monitor Some of these probably can’t do what I’m looking for but I intent to investigate into that… But if any of you could direct my attention to other products/programs, or rule out any of the above before I start, maybe even give some advice and recommendations, I would greatly appreciate it. For *performance* monitoring of both z/VM itself and Linux guests under VM, I would suggest first Velocity's ESALPS suite and then secondly the VM Performance ToolKit. The Velocity package can be configured to send SNMP alerts based on user specified performance metrics (page space running low, LINUX1 guest consuming more than xxx% CPU, etc.) and has a very nice Web based user interface now (complete with graphics!) If you cannot get the ESALPS suite, the Performance Toolkit is a passable alternative, although it lacks some of ESALPS's SNMP alert capabilities and some of the more esoteric performance reports ESALPS provides. The Performance Toolkit also can double as a nice full screen operator's console application. As far as monitoring things like free disk space (both on z/VM volumes, such as page and spool) and on Linux guests) and network/application availability, I would suggest you take a look at the HOBBIT package. Rich Smrcina has put together a very nice HOBBIT client for VM (as well as nice ones for VSE and z/OS) that allows you to consolidate status information from both VM itself and the Linux guests onto one graphical web display. Nagios is also nice, but I do not know if it now comes with a VM specific client; if it doesn't writing one might not prove to be that difficult. I would stay away from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Tivoli Omegamon XE offerings because: 1) they are relatively expensive, 2) somewhat difficult to install and configure correctly, and 3) and have, in the past, viewed VM as something of a second class entity. These are just my humble opinions, of course. I can't speak to either the BMC or CA products; they may, or may not, be good fits for what you need to do. In summary: 1) go with ESALPS, if possible (Barton may offer educational discounts, ask him about it). 2) If ESALPS is not an option, go with the Performance Toolkit. 3) Check out HOBBIT, possibly alongside Nagios. I think that this should meet all of your requirements. Let us know how your thesis work is coming along. Have a good one. Best, Klaus Johansen Lyngby, Denmark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- DJ V/Soft -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Turning Off Firewall on SLES10 SP1
How do I turn off the firewall on SLES10 SP1? I tried setting the startup to manual via YAST, but I got messages stating it couldn't disable services SuSEfirewall2_setup and SuSEfirewall2_init. I also stopped the services from command line, but I still got the errors. Is there a place in /etc I can just edit? Thanks. Jim Fujimoto -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Turning Off Firewall on SLES10 SP1
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 5:41 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Fujimoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I turn off the firewall on SLES10 SP1? I tried setting the startup to manual via YAST, but I got messages stating it couldn't disable services SuSEfirewall2_setup and SuSEfirewall2_init. I also stopped the This worked just fine for me. services from command line, but I still got the errors. I didn't try this because the first method worked. Exactly what command(s) did you issue, and what, exactly, were the results and output? Is there a place in /etc I can just edit? I would say it's almost time to open a problem report. YaST should have worked for you. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Monitoring zPenguins - with??
You might check out a semi white paper on the velocity software website, http://velocitysoftware.com/whylps.html;. it goes thru the selection criteria that i hear the most. Klaus Johansen wrote: Hi all, I’m writing my master’s thesis about server consolidation using z/VM and Linux on zSeries (learning VM as I go along). A part of my work concerns monitoring. I’m supposed to find the best suited monitoring product/program for the zPenguins where I am… We are running z9 EC, z/VM 5.2, SLES9 with Oracle 10 and a proprietary software suite (a mix of C, C++, Java programs), which depends on ftp, ssh, print services etc. Among the things we need to monitor are: - CPU usage (I believe the Linux view will do for now) - Memory consumption (unexpected swapping) - Network availability - Disk space - Logs files sizes (not Linux logs) - Service availability: ftp, ssh, oracle (listener) We need to send alerts/acknowledgments, when thresholds are exceeded and shen values are normalized. The alert format has to be customizable (alerts has to propagate into a larger monitoring setup using a specific format). Until now I have stumbled on the following programs names: - IBM Tivoli Monitoring - IBM Tivoli Omegamon XE for Linux on zSeries - Nagios - Velocity Software ESALPS - BMC Mainview - CA VM:Monitor Some of these probably can’t do what I’m looking for but I intent to investigate into that… But if any of you could direct my attention to other products/programs, or rule out any of the above before I start, maybe even give some advice and recommendations, I would greatly appreciate it. Best, Klaus Johansen Lyngby, Denmark -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 begin:vcard fn:Barton Robinson n:Robinson;Barton adr;dom:;;PO 390640;Mountain View;CA;94039-0640 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Sr. Architect tel;work:650-964-8867 note:If you can't measure it, I'm just not interested x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://velocitysoftware.com version:2.1 end:vcard
VM 35th Birthday
The 35th Birthday is in progress. If you have ekiga, gnomemeeting or something else that can make SIP calls, then try sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We've not had much luck with people behind firewalls but if you can give it a go. Rick Troth is making an actual video that we may youtube in the future. Neale -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Turning Off Firewall on SLES10 SP1
I think I have it solved. We use Sun UCE (formerly Aduva Onstage) for patch management. It looks like UCE is getting in the way. I built another SLES10 SP1 machine where I could set the firewall to manual mode through YAST. It stops working after I install the UCE agent, and works again after I uninstall the agent. Thanks for you help. Jim Fujimoto Mark Post wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 5:41 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Fujimoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I turn off the firewall on SLES10 SP1? I tried setting the startup to manual via YAST, but I got messages stating it couldn't disable services SuSEfirewall2_setup and SuSEfirewall2_init. I also stopped the This worked just fine for me. services from command line, but I still got the errors. I didn't try this because the first method worked. Exactly what command(s) did you issue, and what, exactly, were the results and output? Is there a place in /etc I can just edit? I would say it's almost time to open a problem report. YaST should have worked for you. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z?
Succeeded at what? I think you meant seceded ;-) ...phsiii -Original Message- Date:Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:43:39 -0500 From:Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Counties running Linux on a z-Series/System z? Long story. The City of St. Louis succeeded from St. Louis County back in the late 1880's. So the City of St. Louis is also the County of the City of St. Louis (not to be confused with St. Louis County). -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
2007 Order of the Knights of VM
Moments ago, on August 15th, 2007 at VM's 35th birthday party at SHARE in San Diego, CA, the following new Companions were inducted into the Order of the Knights of VM: Malcolm Beattie Sir Malcolm the Academic Rick Bourgeois Sir Rick of PARS Michael J. Donovan Sir Mike of the Enclave Carol S. EverittDame Carol the Coordinator Francis J. Hensler Sir Fran the Slippery William A. Holder Sir Bill the Doubler Michael D. MacIsaac Sir Mike the Chef of Books Dennis R. Musselwhite Sir Dennis of SwitchCraft Carsten OtteSir Carsten the Counter of Days Robert R. RogersSir Bob of Colorful Words Leonard J. Santalucia Sir Len the Eloquent Eric Schuler-Dalverny Sir Eric the Focused Martin Schwidefsky Sir Martin from the Blue Skies Richard A. Schafer Sir Richard the Mailman Gerard C Shockley Sir Gerard of NEU England Donald S. ViningSir Don the Realist Ulrich Weigand Sir Uli The Count of Compilation Steve G. WilkinsSir Steve the IOnizer Please be sure to congratulate these fine additions to the Order of the Knights of VM for their contributions to the VM community. James Vincent Sir James, Herder of Cats (Eques James, Pastorum Feles) Linux and VM Program Manager -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
