More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello lists, Thought I'd blog a bit more on The Virtualization Cookbook residency. The first week we got a z/VM ESP system installed in a 2-node SSI cluster. We defined an IDENTITY (aka an MCVM) named LNXADMIN with the system on one member being focused on RHEL and the other on SLES (addressing

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Hello lists, Thought I'd blog a bit more on The Virtualization Cookbook residency. [ snip ] Today starts work day 8 of 20 and we still have many items on our plate that we'll try to address (I had

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
John, you might include a (sub)chapter on setting up a Hipersockets network. Thanks for the input - we will add it to the (wish) list... Mike MacIsaac mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Will, Chris
As part of the racf section, enable tcp/ip services to use racf (i.e. appendix a of the tcp/ip planning manual). Chris Will -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:41 AM To:

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Jonathan Quay
Since that is a fairly key differentiator for the Z environment, and something that management can probably understand (hey, look, cross memory networking), you should really try to have a page or two on setting it up. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.comwrote:

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Veencamp, Jonathon D.
Is there already zVM/zLinux documentation contrasting benefits/costs of Hipersockets vs shared OSA offload? I believe OSA offload can also be an approach that is a differentiator with Z. So might as well add that too? Unless Hipersockets is always superior, though I'm not sure that's the

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread David Boyes
Any more suggestions or comments of what else you'd like to see in this book? If it's not already there: 1) a section on setting up the CMS SSL server to provide secure management traffic transport. 2) a section on enabling SMAPI and the use of smaclient to manipulate the images.

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread David Boyes
Is there already zVM/zLinux documentation contrasting benefits/costs of Hipersockets vs shared OSA offload? I believe OSA offload can also be an approach that is a differentiator with Z. So might as well add that too? Unless Hipersockets is always superior, though I'm not sure that's the

Re: More words on The Virtualization Cookbook Redbook residency

2013-06-12 Thread Kurt Acker
What I like about David's suggestion here is that it helps bridge into the life cycle management part of the virtual machines. The cloning scripts section helps with the self service part of Cloud Computing and that completes the definition as defined by the NIST. - That over all might help

After initial setup of generic vmbatch resource, all new ids are set up with discrete (I think)

2013-06-12 Thread Will, Chris
Here is a display of a new userid I set up with dirmaint. It looks like the vmbatch resource is not generic which I want rac rlist vmbatch linmon CLASS NAME - VMBATCHLINMON LEVEL OWNER UNIVERSAL ACCESS YOUR ACCESS WARNING -

Re: After initial setup of generic vmbatch resource, all new ids are set up with discrete (I think)

2013-06-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Are you saying that you are using the DIRMAINT/RACF interface and it's not generating VMBATCH right? If so, I'm not sure how much you can alter this.. I'd have to read up on these options in CONFIGRC DATADVH where the following line is from: RACF_RDEFINE_VMBATCH_DEFAULTS= UACC(NONE)

Re: After initial setup of generic vmbatch resource, all new ids are set up with discrete (I think)

2013-06-12 Thread Bruce Hayden
What you do is leave that line in the config file but with no value, as in: RACF_RDEFINE_VMBATCH_DEFAULTS= Then, DIRMAINT won't create a VMBATCH resource when a new user is created. You'd also do this if you don't control Diag D4 (so you have no need for VMBATCH resources. And the same is true

Re: After initial setup of generic vmbatch resource, all new ids are set up with discrete (I think)

2013-06-12 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Chris, Thanks for the info - I was able to recreate and see the issue. There is Scott's reply. Perhaps Alan will also chime in. And somehow, we will address this in the updated Cookbook. Mike MacIsaac mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com

Re: After initial setup of generic vmbatch resource, all new ids are set up with discrete (I think)

2013-06-12 Thread Will, Chris
Is there a command to fix the userids I have already set up? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hayden Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:15 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: After initial setup of generic vmbatch

Re: After initial setup of generic vmbatch resource, all new ids are set up with discrete (I think)

2013-06-12 Thread Bruce Hayden
Just delete their VMBATCH profiles: RAC RDEL VMBATCH userid Repeat for each user. You can find out which ones exist with: RAC SEARCH CLASS(VMBATCH) On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Will, Chris cw...@bcbsm.com wrote: Is there a command to fix the userids I have already set up? -Original

Re: After initial setup of generic vmbatch resource, all new ids are set up with discrete (I think)

2013-06-12 Thread Scott Rohling
I believe RAC RDELETE VMBATCH LINMON would do it for your example.. without a discrete definition it should default to the generic one (if I'm reading Bruce correctly) - so just delete it. Scott Rohling On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Will, Chris cw...@bcbsm.com wrote: Is there a command