Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-22 Thread RPN01
VSWG isn't the name of the test vswitch; it's the production one... (could've just yelled this over the cube wall, but this was more fun. ;-) ) -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation.~. RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW/V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /(

Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: We're moving our network connection from an old pair of fiber OSA's to a new pair of copper OSA's. I'm trying to simply bring up and test the connections one at a time, first, before adding a permanent definition to system config. I'd like to

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Davis, Larry
Did you authorize your userid to connect to the switch Larry Davis -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Spinler Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:07 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Connecting and testing a new pair

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davis, Larry wrote: Did you authorize your userid to connect to the switch Yes. Sorry, I forgot to put that into the list I put below, but I just cycled through my CMS command history, and sure enough, I have: set vswitch vswtest1 grant

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Mark Post
On 10/21/2008 at 2:07 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Spinler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- So, can anyone clue me in on what I'm forgetting? I didn't see a set vswitch grant command in there. Did you do that before the couple? If so, or if the way you issued the command means

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
The simplest way is really just to go edit the directory entry and log it off and back on.Patrick must be using some really horrible directory manager! ;) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
I think you'll need something to create the files /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/hardware for your new device. Yast will do that. Or you can do it manually. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Brian Nielsen
Even easier is to use a test VM TCPIP stack rather than a Linux guest. YMMV. I just recently moved our production network connections from one pair of OSA's to a different pair. Like the OP, I first tested the new OSA's wit h a new VSWITCH, but I used a test VM TCPIP stack. When I was

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcy Cortes wrote: The simplest way is really just to go edit the directory entry and log it off and back on.Patrick must be using some really horrible directory manager! ;) Heh. Make me do it the easy way. :-) Okay, so, here's what I

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
Ah, that looks familiar. Your vswitch is of type ETHERNET Do you have QETH LAYER 2 option enabled? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take

Re: Connecting and testing a new pair of OSAs and new vswitch

2008-10-21 Thread Davis, Larry
I would remove the portname from the vswitch definition it may be a conflict with some one else who set it first -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:09 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU