Re: Linux Boot Verification

.bb4.org/ - i've not used it with z/Linux but it should work. We used it for monitoring a number of messaging servers running various flavors of linux and unix. Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5

SMT ( was: Registering a SLES zlinux server with novell?)

How soon do you anticipate a z version of SMT ? Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo: "Our cau

how to register sles 10

I got this from a nice young man at IBM: http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3030847&sliceId=1 cheers (sometimes I miss smp/e) Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-

Re: Registering a SLES zlinux server with novell?

How would I get that - I don't see that in sles 10 sp1? thx Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service

Registering a SLES zlinux server with novell?

ssh. is there some other way to register? Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo: "Our cause is h

Re: Setting up a FTP server to server Linux Distributions - advice needed

Perfect - thank you Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist From: Kim Goldenberg To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/20/2009 07:45 AM Subject: Re: Setting up a FTP server to server Linux Distributions - advice needed Sent by: Linux on 390 Port Lionel B Dyck wrote: > I want to setu

Re: Setting up a FTP server to server Linux Distributions - advice needed

Thank you - excellent Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo: "Our cause is health. Our passi

Setting up a FTP server to server Linux Distributions - advice needed

to mount them to the vsftp ftp location My questions are: 1. is there a way to change the vsftp ftp 'root' location to my new mount point and 2. make the loop mounts permanent Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT E

PuTTY replacement KiTTY

from a webpage http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?page=SSH%20Handler Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo

Re: server inventory ?

I'm looking for something that spans lpars - right now pel is one lpar at a time or more specifically one pel base at a time. Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist ?Never attribute to malice what can be caused by miscommunication.? NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended reci

Re: server inventory ?

Mark - SMT sounds useful but the majority of my linux servers on z are created by mainstar's provisioning expert for linux and managed by it. Thus SMT would be useful for the PEL base servers but not the instances it creates. thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist ?Never attribu

server inventory ?

have a monitor that is 3' wide). Does anyone have anything that you really like that is easy to implement and keep current? thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332)

fstab management

Is there a tool to update and maintain the fstab on linux? Manually editing it seems to be a real 'pain' with a lot of opportunity for error. thx Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (

Setting up anon ftp

the sles11 directory: lrwxrwxrwx1 00 12 May 11 20:19 sles11 -> /sles/sles11 But I can not cd to it ftp> cd sles11 550 Failed to change directory. I'm baffled - any advice Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe

SLES 11 and ESATCP (Velocity)

While perusing the Velocity site for updated information today I ran across a note about net-snmp and SLES 11 the url is http://www.velocitysoftware.com/customer/getfile.cgi?SLES11+README+103 (you'll need a Velocity customer userid and password to read it) cheers Lionel B. Dyck, Consu

Re: Control-D from 3270 ?

Thanks for all the replies - the last from Jack on accessing from another host sounds interesting - i'm going to try that Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lione

Re: Control-D from 3270 ?

I did login but the fsck didn't work :( Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo: "Our cause

Re: Control-D from 3270 ?

Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: lionel.b.d...@kp.org AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Service Credo: "Our cause is health. Our passion is service. We?re he

Re: Control-D from 3270 ?

t password for login: JBD: barrier-based sync failed on dasda1 - disabli ng barriers exit Login incorrect. Give root password for login: Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332

Control-D from 3270 ?

mode. shutdown or reboot will not work. I've tried shutdown -r now and shutdown -rF now without success I don't know how to enter a Control-D from the 3270 console Any advice? Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineer

CrossPost: Mainframe Poll

://www.informationweek.com/poll/mainframes In one question they ask which OS you are using and include IBM Linux - I wasn't aware that there was an IBM Linux which goes to show that they are still ignorant of the mainframe Linux space - but they are asking so let's give them some input.

Re: Support of z/VM and zLinux environments

IN our organization (for now) we support z/vm and the linux group supports linux. Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist ?Never attribute to malice what can be caused by miscommunication.? NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are prohibited from

Re: RSCS--LPD-z/OS-JES2

We run a exec nightly on z/vm that extracts files from the spool and uses ftp to put them into the z/os jes2 spool where they are then archived in CA-View (formerly SAR). I'd be glad to send it to you Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engine

Re: Z/linux utilities to equivalent Z/os utilities

For Omegamon we use Velocity's ESALPS For Backup in the Linux filesystem space we use FDR/UpStream For Backup at the z/VM level we use DF/DSS (from z/OS as we have no tapes on z/VM) For provisioning we also use Mainstar's Provisioning Expert for Linux (PEL) hth Lionel B. Dyck,

something to like about linux on z

While watching the startup of a Linux guest I noticed this: Dec 18 10:27:24 linuxvm0 kernel: qeth: Outbound TSO not supported on eth0 TSO on Linux - now that is handy - now if it also supported ISPF :-) Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP

Re: SRDF and z/Linux question

Mark - thanks for the idea. The requirement is to run SRDF-A (async) on all of the linux guests to keep the data in sync between production and remote site in case of a disaster. I guess we could do a chron to do a synch every few minutes to help with currency. Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant

SRDF and z/Linux question

Linux to write the data from its cache/buffer on a more timely basis to ensure the viability of the SRDF copy should it have to be used? TIA Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail

Re: z/VM Software stack to support zLinux

backup to the server on z/OS) We have no tape directly attached to z/VM so all backups to tape are via DF/DSS on z/OS. hope this helps - let me know if you have any questions via direct e-mail Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT

Re: Filesystems and z/VM disks

use, and supported provisioning process. It includes support for rolling updates out to multiple guests as well which you will want to do at some point. I'm don't sell it - I just use it ;-) Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT

CrossPost - tool for SHARE scheduling (post processor)

your smart phone, pda, pocket pc). The link to this tool is http://www.lbdsoftware.com/sharepda.zip Read the readme and enjoy Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Software for managing Linux images

kages, rpm's, etc. For that I'd suggest you look at Novell's ZLM. hth Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser Servi

telnet to z/vm with linux logon

e'. Is there a how-to or other document on how to access and perform basic recovery actions (such as when the linux server itself has network issues) using the telnet to z/vm and logon to linux approach? Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainfram

Re: Using VI via Telnet to Linux on z ???

Thanks - my linux guy was trying to do it from tn3270 and had issues and I hadn't tried it as I don't know vi. thx Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROT

Using VI via Telnet to Linux on z ???

Any hints/tips on using Vi on linux running on z? I presume you should telnet instead of tn3270 but any other hints/tips? thx Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: z/Linux or zLinux - which is preferred?

s not specific enough. Thanks all Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Ka

New (draft) Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/VM Basics

Appendix A. Enhancements in z/VM Version 5, release 3 Appendix B. Quick Reference Appendix C. Answer Key Appendix D. Additional material Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services

Disabling QIOASSIST for SLES 10 ?

exec - or on a system wide basis and if so how) Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lbdyck

Re: ZEN and zLinux

s/etc for using ZLM with z/VM 5.2 (or 5.3) ? Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lbdyck | Yah

Re: ZEN and zLinux

Paul wrote: If you are talking about Zen for Server Management. Yes. Don't. Why? Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332

ZEN and zLinux

Is anyone using Novells ZEN to manage their zLinux installations/updates? Any tips/hits/gotcha's/etc. ? Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) 92

IBM typo or pre-announce ???

Take a look at this and tell me - is it a typo or is IBM pre-announcing something: http://tinyurl.com/33m27d smile Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) 925

Sample velocity esamon monalert for z/vm?

We are getting started defining alerts for z/vm using velocity's esamon and I would love to see examples of any production z/vm monalert files if anyone would care to share. Thanks in advance Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering

Re: Cluster File System for HA

Would MapFS make sense in this case? http://sourceforge.net/projects/mapfs Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL

dasd (3390) model usable space

1,892,010,960 1.89 1 3390-3 3339 15 56,664 849,960 2,838,016,440 2.84 1 3390-9 10017 15 56,664 849,960 8,514,049,320 8.51 3 3390-27 32760 15 56,664 849,960 27,844,689,600 27.84 3 3390-54 65520 15 56,664 982,800 55,689,379,200 55.69 3 Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterpri

Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

t use DHCP but require static IP address assignments). At some point in the future a CMDB should be available that will obviate the need for this (or so I've been told but I'm not holding my breath and suspect the excel worksheet will be around for a very long time). Lionel B. Dy

Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

Nothing that is that usable. Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck

Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

Thanks - what about assigning host names. For example if your host name were generated (based on local conventions) as C1LVM001 how would you track this and how would you assign the 002, etc. host names? Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe

Assigning/Tracking Host names

with the last 3 positions being 001 to 999 to ensure a unique name. Right now an excel worksheet is used. This is not something that is new so my thinking was that there had to be an application for assigning host names and tracking information about them. Does anyone know of one? Thanks Lionel B

Re: Pros/Cons of FCP connection DASD

What about having zLinux take ownership of an existing AIX or Windows or Solaris filesystem? thx Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist zLinux Platform Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Manager Toni Nicotera 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail

Re: Pros/Cons of FCP connection DASD

ean sharing the SAN and not sharing a common filesystem - or do you mean that zLinux can share the same filesystem (data) as AIX? Thx Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist zLinux Platform Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Manager Toni Nicotera 925-

Pros/Cons of FCP connection DASD

- what do y'all think? Thanks in advance. Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist zLinux Platform Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) KP-IT Enterprise Engineering, Manager Toni Nicotera 925-926-5332 (8-473-5332) | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck Kaiser

Lotus Notes on zLinux ?

Is anyone using Lotus Notes on zLinux? If so what is your experience (good, great, bad, ugly, beautiful)? Are you doing only Mail or Mail and applications? Any pointers/tips? Thanks Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist zLinux Platform Client and Platform Engineering Services (CAPES) KP-IT