Re: Enterprise LDAP authentication

2009-02-17 Thread Shawn Wells
John Summerfield wrote: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: We have a new client requesting to use the enterprise ldap server (running on a windows box I think). First reading indicates I can run an ldap server on a zlinux machine and point it to the enterprise ldap server for authentication. I

SLES 10 SP3

2009-02-17 Thread Florian Bilek
Dear al, Is there any information about availability of SLES 10 SP3 or SLES 11 for z/Series? I would need that for further planning of resources. Thank's in advance. -- Best regards Florian Bilek -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: cpuplugd s390-tools - adjusting linux guest size dynamically

2009-02-17 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Johansen.Klaus KYJ k...@kmd.dk wrote: What I suggest with cpuplugd is basically to let Linux (in your own words) behave social. I only looked at cpuplugd for dealing with virtual processors, and my comments about waste of energy applied to that. I would have

Re: cpuplugd s390-tools - adjusting linux guest size dynamically

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Perry
Rob van der Heij wrote: I only looked at cpuplugd for dealing with virtual processors, and my comments about waste of energy applied to that. Your energy or the System z's ? cpuplugd and z/VM 5.4 work nicely together taking idle processors out of the dispatcher list, and working with the

Re: cpuplugd s390-tools - adjusting linux guest size dynamically

2009-02-17 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Mark Perry rita.co@googlemail.com wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: I only looked at cpuplugd for dealing with virtual processors, and my comments about waste of energy applied to that. Your energy or the System z's ? cpuplugd and z/VM 5.4 work nicely

VM/Linux-BKUP-Restore-Recovery

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Wells
Posting question to everyone on what you maybe using for your backup/recovery for applications/systems(images) Since we are just getting our feet wet I thought I'd ask the group what is being used out there..everyone has product(s) or methods and I would be interested in what is being used or

Re: VM/Linux-BKUP-Restore-Recovery

2009-02-17 Thread Graves, Aaron
At Citi, we are using the FDR UpStream product from Innovation Data Processing to take file-level backups on zLinux. We run the server side on z/OS, with the agent on zLinux. The backups run across a hipersocket connection between zLinux and z/OS, using the existing z/OS tape infrastructure.

Re: VM/Linux-BKUP-Restore-Recovery

2009-02-17 Thread David Boyes
We separated our CMS and Linux DASD into two groups. The CMS disks are backed up with DDR periodically (they're mostly R/O data), and the Linux disks are backed up with Bacula to a separate Linux instance that is only used as a backup server and can be shut down with impunity. The backup server

Re: VM/Linux-BKUP-Restore-Recovery

2009-02-17 Thread Brian France
Here we do exactly the same AND we also take weekly backups from our z/OS system using FDR classic to take full volume dumps of all our volumes related to VM and MainFrameLinux. We realize those are fuzzy but like them. At 10:33 AM 2/17/2009, Graves, Aaron wrote: At Citi, we are using the FDR

Re: cpuplugd s390-tools - adjusting linux guest size dynamically

2009-02-17 Thread Sterling James
When using cpuplugd for adjustment of vcpus, has anyone noticed a problem with apache2/php applications and defunct processes? TIA - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are

Re: SLES 10 SP3

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Post
On 2/17/2009 at 3:46 AM, Florian Bilek florian.bi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear al, Is there any information about availability of SLES 10 SP3 or SLES 11 for z/Series? No real details. Testing for SLES 11 is at Release Candidate 4, so we're well along there. What we're saying in public is

Re: VM/Linux-BKUP-Restore-Recovery

2009-02-17 Thread Duane Beyer
There is a good IBM Test Report on Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM with examples for setting up a backup jobs for z/VM guests and Linux images. It is in the June 2008 z/OS V1R9.0 System z Platform Test Report for z/OS and Linux Virtual Serverstest report located at

Re: VM/Linux-BKUP-Restore-Recovery

2009-02-17 Thread Gary Detro
I have found that z/VM Backup and Restore Manger application is a great tool for creating image backups of our zLinux and system dasd. We keep one set of tapes on site and keep the offsite set of tapes at a remote location. We supplement these image backups with Tivoli Storage Manager Clients

Broken logical volume group

2009-02-17 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Looks like this is going to be ugly. We booted on of our servers and the logical volume was corrupted and I got dropped down to the Repair Filesystem prompt. One big problem is /usr is empty so none of the logical volume commands are availably. We FDR restored all 5 physical volumes (3390

Re: Broken logical volume group

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Post
On 2/17/2009 at 1:17 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Looks like this is going to be ugly. We booted on of our servers and the logical volume was corrupted and I got dropped down to the Repair Filesystem prompt. One big problem is /usr is empty so none of the

Re: Trouble with script to add ts1120 tape drives

2009-02-17 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Friday 13 February 2009 14:55, Lee, Gary D. wrote: The following script runs perfectly when run from the # prompt logged in as root on our sles9 sp4 instance. However, when run in the startup process as S16starttapes forinstance, the second drive does not add, and the message that it does

Re: Broken logical volume group

2009-02-17 Thread Brad Hinson
Mark Post wrote: On 2/17/2009 at 1:17 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Looks like this is going to be ugly. We booted on of our servers and the logical volume was corrupted and I got dropped down to the Repair Filesystem prompt. One big problem is /usr is empty so

Re: Broken logical volume group

2009-02-17 Thread Scott Rohling
Is that the Novell stance? No / under LVM?? I know Redhat is just fine with it.. Scott Rohling On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 2/17/2009 at 1:17 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Looks like this is going to be ugly. We

Re: SLES 10 SP3

2009-02-17 Thread Florian Bilek
Thank you Mark! I would be specially interested in the update of MONO. I have an application that I cannot make run under s390x SLES 10 SP2. The same works well under SLES 10 Intel. May be a later version on s390x would fix it. Best regards, Florian On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Mark Post

Re: Broken logical volume group

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Post
On 2/17/2009 at 6:39 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: Is that the Novell stance? No / under LVM?? I know Redhat is just fine with it.. Novell doesn't have a stance. I do. It's an unnecessary exposure to pain I can do without. Mark Post

Re: Broken logical volume group

2009-02-17 Thread Scott Rohling
Well - when you tell someone 'and make sure you don't... ' - to me - it's like you're giving them a 'best practice'. And too many people disagree with you for it to be one. shrug Scott On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 2/17/2009 at 6:39 PM, Scott

Re: Broken logical volume group

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Post
On 2/17/2009 at 7:38 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: ...too many people disagree with you for it to be one. shrug I more concerned with giving people the best advice I have, to worry about that. Mark Post

Re: SLES 10 SP3

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Post
On 2/17/2009 at 2:34 PM, Florian Bilek florian.bi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Mark! I would be specially interested in the update of MONO. I have an application that I cannot make run under s390x SLES 10 SP2. The same works well under SLES 10 Intel. May be a later version on s390x

Re: Sles10 Eth Layer 2

2009-02-17 Thread Tobias Doerkes
I am facing the same problem and I was not able to determine the reason. But i solved this issue by copying the right file during autoyast stage2 from autoyast.xml file file_contents![CDATA[STARTMODE='auto' MODULE='qeth' MODULE_OPTIONS='' MODULE_UNLOAD='yes' SCRIPTUP='hwup-ccw'

Re: cpuplugd s390-tools - adjusting linux guest size dynamically

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Perry
Rob van der Heij wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Mark Perry rita.co@googlemail.com wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: I only looked at cpuplugd for dealing with virtual processors, and my comments about waste of energy applied to that. Your energy or the System z's ? cpuplugd and