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If I were running a data center with a zVM/Linux capable Mainframe and a
whole farm of linux/windows virtual machines, I would look to have the
Mainframe be the centralized administration/reporting center for the
Ansible (provisioning, patching, deprovisioning, maintenance) processes
for System,
That would be good document for IBM to supply even for us long-time
users of z/VM. I have never used ALL of the IBM supplied directory
entries, but I have been asked by Management and Auditors what some of
them were for.
/Tom Kern
On 10/23/2014 08:59, Ambros, Thomas wrote:
Neither. What I'd
3) if you aren't measuring it, you can't tune it.
4) if you aren't measuring it, you really are looking to drive over that
cliff.
/Tom Kern
On 03/13/2013 10:45 AM, Tom Kennelly wrote:
Wisdom:
1. You can not tune your way out of a lack of capacity.
2. Computer performance is based upon a
On 03/06/2013 03:29 PM, Melancon, Ruddy wrote:
I have a security officer that has raised the issue regarding free [Putty]
software.
Has anyone encounterd security issues with Putty beyond the Release 0.60? I am
looking for documented problems.
I am also interested in what I could use as a
There is a replacement for PuTTY's pageant module that will read the HSPD-12
badge I have
and use one of the certs from there. I have to enter my badge pin every time I
make a
connection so it is 2-Factor (something I have-the badge, something I know-the
pin to
access the badge). I think it is
On 8/8/2012 20:04, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wrote:
Too bad Tymshare never donated TymVSAM to the VM community, or at least made
it more
generally available. I never used it directly, just as a user of a canned
application
Too bad Tymshare never donated TymVSAM to the VM community, or at least made it
more
generally available. I never used it directly, just as a user of a canned
application that
used it. Simple single user VSAM in standard CMS files.
/Tom Kern
On 8/8/2012 14:56, David Boyes wrote:
I'm all for
If you don't need to run the alternate volume for long, you can live with a 1
volume
(3390-9) RES pack, with spool and page on it. I built one to be able to IPL
something
other than our production systems and use multiple VMs in that system to COPY
our DASD (VM
and MVS) from one DASD subsystem
My managements never did that. What got me incentivised (it should be a word),
was that I
got to solve problems in VM. In the other systems I had to work on, we were not
really
allowed the freedom to solve problems, Management was willing to live with the
lack of
utilities and flexibility of
When we had linux on Z, we ran the ntpdate program once per day (before start of
business). On our current ESX and Oracle Virtualization (xen), we need to run
it every hour.
/Tom Kern
On 6/4/2012 12:31, David Boyes wrote:
Running NTP everywhere wakes every guest up periodically, so you waste a
This is sort of a 1 from column A, 2 from column B type of an answer.
IMHO:
Velocity has the best products for Performance and Capacity Planning. They also
have a
nice VM-base web server.
The VMCenter products that CA sells are the best for Operator Console, Tape
Management and
This is a CMS command-line ssh capability that I have been asking for since I
started
running Linux under z/VM. It may be available from a third-party like Sine
Nomine, but it
is not available from IBM.
/Tom Kern
(I no longer run Linux under z/VM, so the Powers That Be succeeded in stalling
Sounds like there is a typo in /etc/modprobe.conf.
You can mount that volume to a Rescue System and look/repair it.
I used to use the EXT2CMS package from Sine Nomine to do such edit repairs
under CMS.
/Tom Kern
On 7/12/2011 17:25, Aisik Chang wrote:
Hello, listers,
We had to change
It is good to know that the encryption can be on the client side. Then the
server can be
doing unencrypted as its default and only those clients that need to encrypt
their data
can do it and take whatever CPU penalty is necessary for the privacy of their
data.
Thanks for working on this tool.
Have you added software encryption of the tape output? I know that some tape
drives
support hardware encryption but some places do not have enough of them to spare
for linux
and the plain tape drives are what are available.
/Tom Kern
On 7/8/2011 13:16, David Boyes wrote:
If you're running
That is what I have done on real systems (ORACLE RAC) running OEL5 where
external access
was on one NIC and inter-RAC communications was on an internal network through
another
NIC. I had to put a GATEWAY= statement in each icfcfg-ethx file and I had the
DEFAULT
gateway listed in the
We don't use selinux because none of us understand it nor have the time to read
up on it
in our copious free time. But if there were a class about implementing selinux
then I
might be able to get my company to cut loose with some of the training money.
Does anyone teach selinux implementation?
I like the writable / with RO /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib64, /usr. This way if you
do get
around to charging (yeah old school) for disk space, the customer pays for the
writable
areas, not the shared RO areas. If the customer needs more space, break out
other
directories to their own disks (/home,
With each penguin wearing a green A-2 flight jacket and red Indiana Jones
fedora.
/Tom Kern
John Campbell wrote:
Michael Stephens wrote:
Looks good, but how about a penguin riding a dinosaur?
At one time I thought a cool logo would be a Tyrannosaurus Rex with a
row of Penguins down its
I am glad to see that Velocity is still hiring good people. I hope you
enjoy your work. I also hope you will continue work on z/VM, z/OS
clients for the xymon monitor.
/Tom Kern
Rich Smrcina wrote:
Cross posted to vse-l, ibmvm and linux-390; sorry for dups.
As of February 1, 2010 I've taken a
If a customer were having a problem with a particular linux guest, could
they modify that ESALPS condensation process, say to condense after a
week? Or condense normally for all other linux guests but the problem one?
/Tom Kern
Rob van der Heij wrote:
(snipped)
We condense the 1-minute data
authorized path.
/Thomas Kern
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Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote:
Look at it now. Is this what you had in mind?
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Thomas Kern wrote:
It would be nice if linux could be convinced to deliver consumption data
to VM on a per account/user by interval. I don't think it has to be
into the 'Accounting' data stream but maybe to the 'Monitor' data
stream. I still think VM need a single
It would be nice if linux could be convinced to deliver consumption data
to VM on a per account/user by interval. I don't think it has to be
into the 'Accounting' data stream but maybe to the 'Monitor' data
stream. I still think VM need a single performance/capacity/accounting
data stream (think
BigBrother and its follow-on Hobbit(now named Xymon) have tests for SSL
certificate expiration, Telnet, FTP, HTTP and other Port availability.
There are also capabilities for external scripts on both client and
server. I have not run the server part on zSeries yet, but it does run.
I have used the
I can get MySQL to recompile using the original .spec file and with a
modified .spec file that includes --with-openssl options. I get a whole
set of .s390x.rpm files. There is one that is missing. The normal files
available from Novell include mysql-shared and mysql-shared-32bit files,
but
at 10:50 AM, Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wrote:=20
-snip-
How does the -32bit file get built? Is it just a build using s390
architecture and rename that one rpm file and throw away the rest?
It almost looks that way. I did an rpm -qip against the normal and =
-32bit RPMs, and they were built
I use the RSCS transmitters for UFT but the UFTD server supplied with
TCPIP. When I first tried setting this up I had problems with the UFT
receiver in RSCS so I gave up on that. I can help test/debug things
since this process is internal to my systems and just used by systems
support staff.
Let
The real error was my lack of bison. Once that was installed, the
recompile worked.
/Tom Kern
Jeff Savit wrote:
On 1/29/09 11:51 AM David Boyes Said
On 1/29/09 10:19 AM, Kern, Thomas thomas.k...@hq.doe.gov wrote:
make[2]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/packages/BUILD/mysql-5.0.26/sql'
d
I have the extra status messages that different tasks generate in each
linux server sent to a central LISTSERV and at 08:00 it does its digest
and sends one email to me with all of the status from over night.
Exception emails are sent directly to my email and therefore to my
blackberry. The userid
Or set it to run as root under CRON and you can specify the filesystem
such as 'dsmc incremental / /srv /oradb'.
You can also have the output processed into a status message to be sent
to a central administrator or to XYMON (formerly Hobbit).
/Tom Kern
David Boyes wrote:
Have your TSM admin
I would add VM:Tape and VM:Backup from CA to provide enhanced data
backuprestore capabilities. IBM offers Tape Manager and Backup Manager
(I think that is the name, Tracy Dean can correct me, please).
VM:Operator or Operations Manager can be added to help automate the
OPERATOR console for some
Is the default vswitch configuration a Layer2 or Layer3? How do we
define one or the other?
/Tom Kern
David Boyes wrote:
On 12/1/08 3:53 PM, Bernie Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi List,
Newbie wants to know the difference between layer 2 and layer 3 vswitch ?
Layer 3 (as implemented in VM)
If I already have linux servers connecting to a Layer3 vswitch, what do
I need to do to them to allow a change to a Layer2 vswitch?
/Tom Kern
David Boyes wrote:
On 12/1/08 7:24 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the default vswitch configuration a Layer2 or Layer3?
Layer 3, unless
DIRMAINT is a directory manager, RACF is a security manager. While the
two work together, they are not interchangeable.
Even in a system where I am the only one making changes to the
directory, I prefer to turn DIRMAINT on to make it easier for me to make
changes to the directory entries.
/Tom
How did you fix the monitor sample config thing?
/Tom Kern
Pat Carroll wrote:
Hi David
Thanks for the quick response.
I fixed the monitor sample config thing...
FCONRMT AUTHORIZ (unchanged from 5.2):
VMPRODA PERFSVM SFSERV CMD DATA
VMPRODA * DATA
Patrick Carroll | Enterprise
I think his thinking about using Linux as an intermediary at the
production and hot sites is that he doesn't have to pay another license
for z/VM to always be running at the hot site.
With some programming, Linux at the hot site might even be able to
unpack the PIPEDDR files and write to the
an email. The MAILIT package from the IBM
Downloads website is excellent for sending out the email.
/Thomas Kern
/U.S. Department of Energy
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FC PROCESS CPO* 'LOGON' DISPLAY CPO CALL VALLGN PASSARGS NOTIFY
VALLGN EXEC T1; V 35 Blks=1 Col=1 Rec=1 of 6 Files=1
/* */
trace off
user utilization data from PerfTK listings and then charge
people based on those numbers.
/Tom Kern
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--Original Message-
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps more customers will get around to using the accumulation files
I have written FORTRAN, Rexx and SAS programs for the reduction of
accounting and performance data. Luckily this was all for internal
review not for real charge-back, no money changed hands. Management only
likes my programs when the numbers match their predetermined ideas of
who is taking how
If we had a NETDATA command (query/send/receive functions) then on
SLES10-SP2 (VM Unit Record functionality) we could netdata the files to
ourselves at the end of each successful IPL and they would be waiting
for us when we find corruption/errors in these files.
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
Can anyone give a rough estimate of the DASD space required to hold all
of the maintenance for 'GA SP1 SP2' of SLES10? Having read Mark's
article on setting up a maintenance mirror, I am interested in trying
it, but do not want to be in the run it, increase space, run it,
increase space, run it,
Cross-posted to z/VM list.
I want to thank Rob for pointing out the new STRUCTURE capabilities in
the latest runtime version of Pipelines. His presentation shows enough
to get me started on more intensive processing of z/VM's accounting data.
To add something to the community, here is my first
Except the original poster wants to REDUCE z/OS cycles and cost, not
INCREASE them.
/Tom Kern
John Summerfield wrote:
I imagine it's possible to port Linux to z/OS. I'm thinking here of the
user-mode-linux model, where the kernel's hardware is provided in the
host OS.
It would need tty
I am pretty sure it would take at least a new driver and probably a new
filesystem, akin to CMSFS for a start. But then you get into the area of
security. Without z/OS doing the file access, your z/OS security package
cannot validate any of the linux i/o to each file. Any process on linux
might be
I have been successfully collecting the accounting cards for a long
time. I have them from the very first IPL of this z890. I am not doing
chargeback. I would not do charge back from the accounting cards, I
would do it from the Monitor data stream because the per user
utilization and the rest of
Now that Structure stuff looks nifty. I will be trying that.
Thanks.
/Tom Kern
-- Original Message --
From: Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not on Linux, but new If you want to take advantage of the
opportunity to play with some modern pipelines stuff, have a look at
my
Has anyone begun using linux tools (awk, rrdtool, MySQL, etc) to
manipulate, store, report the data in the VM accounting cards? I haven't
had to report on VM's accounting data for several years now and the
product used for that task has been removed. There is now a high level
interest in mainframe
As much as I like the idea of having accounting data for each
process/job in a linux server, I don't think the VM accounting data is
the place to put it. For a long time I have felt that process accounting
should go into the Monitor data stream so like SMF there is all the data
in ONE place.
I don't have ADABAS but I do have multiple Oracle servers that I backup
with TSM. I do not use the TSM scheduler or CAD to manage the backup
time. My customers require a known outage for backups, so I use a CRON
job to stop the Oracle instance, run the DSMC Incremental backup and
then start the
When I set up my hipersocket network between two z/VM LPARs, I went to
the networking people and got a 10.x.y.0-255 segment for my own use.
They promised not to let anyone else use it in the rest of the network.
/Tom Kern
Frank Swarbrick wrote:
When setting up the IP address for a hipersocket
There is a JES2MAIL/JES2FTP product from some vendor I cannot remember
tonight. It is supposed to be able to generate PDF files before sending
them to the appropriate destination. An FTP to a linux server on an IFL
could be done and then let the linux serve them out via Apache2 with all
the
The core utility is supplied by IBM, it is called WAKEUP. But to make it
easy, do to the IBM Downloads webpage and get the RXServer package
(http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?RXSERVER). This is
a template for general purpose service virtual machines. One sample in
the package
I too, love CMS as a versatile platform for interactive and server
tasks. But I just don't think that IBM will enhance the CMS environment
for managing the VM system itself or the Linux guests that IBM is
promoting. It will take third-party vendors to provide encryption
capabilities, spool backup
Even with the multi-programming capability of linux, I might prefer to
separate some functions. I think things like DIRMAINT, PERFTK, VMUTIL,
SYSLOG, other internal functions being in one server, RSCS, VTAM/SNA(if
necessary), TN3270, FTP, NFS, Web, other external functions being in
another
If your target zLinux is on the same mainframe as your VSE, why not FTP
directly to the zLinux system? SIFT/UFT would be nice, especially if you
could have a SIFT client on the VSE system, but I don't remember seeing
any SIFT/UFT server for zLinux. The original VM implementation and the
current
An NJE connection would be even better than FTPing to the zlinux system.
Do any of the TCPNJE implementations include traffic encryption?
David Boyes wrote:
There are full NJE implementations for Linux and other systems.
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I have tried both and have decided that the best way to choose a
distribution has nothing to do with their performance on a zSeries. For
me, both worked well enough with our web workload, that I would have
needed extensive instrumentation (your queue, Barton) to tell the
difference. I think there
Some suggestions:
1) Swap disks: Get more paging space defined for your VM system and switch from
DASD swap areas to VDISK swap areas.
2) Mod3s that don't need expansion: Use DDR to copy from real DASD to minidisk
definitions of the same size. Multiple copies can be run in parallel by using
Try SecureFTP from Glub Tech. http://www.glub.com/products/secureftp/
I use its Windows version to transfer files to a VM FTP server protected by
SSL. There is a linux client. It is supposed to be pure Java.
/Tom Kern
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--- Clark, Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of
For the SSL enabler, I can live with an increased footprint if it can help you
create, maintain and package it.
Thanks for doing this for the VM community.
/Tom Kern
/A very satisfied customer of free software.
--- Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's A; however doing B with stunnel is
I can't help you with Nagios, but if you want to try a replacement, look
for Rich Smrcina for a copy of the Hobbit code for SLES on zSeries, or
get a copy of the x86 code for a server and get a copy of the client
code for SLES on zSeries. Hobbit is an follow-on to BigBrother and one
of its
TSM client to a z/OS TSM server works very well for file-level backups.
Our Disaster Recovery backups are still done from outside the Linux
server while the Linux server is NOT logged on. We already had TSM
server on our OS/390-z/OS system so it was nothing to add our Linux
workload. As we add
To backup the z/VM minidisks and the linux minidisks, we do image backups for
Disaster Recovery using DDR. VM:Backup and IBM's Backup/Restore Manager can
also do the job of full volume, minidisk-level image backups and CMS file-level
backups. There are some homegrown CMS file-level Backup/Restore
I didn't need a full throughput benchmark, nor did I need to benchmark the I/O
subsystem or the tape drives. The boss asked a specific question about the CPU
power. I found a program that answered his question to his complete
satisfaction. Now if he had asked for a throughput benchmark, an
Since Mhz and MIPS are such misused values, I prefer to run the same
program on old and new engines to compare the performance change. I use
an old FORTRAN (no flames please) program that computes pi to 5000
places. A boss once needed something to see if the vendor really did
upgrade our
True, being used from the 'outside' of a linux system, it must be used
when the target system is logged off.
But the existence of these tools indicates that it is possible to access
linux files from other operating systems and a backup/restore process
could be written (at least one person knows
I have installed the mono rpms to a SLES10 system, did a miminal
configuration for apache2 and started it up. So far so good. What I need
now is a sample .aspx program so I can show the doubting customer that
ASP on linux/mainframe really works. I tried a sample program from
ASP101 but kept
I have a customer currently using our linux under z/VM to host multiple
websites. All sites are simple static html, jpg, and pdf files. He is
looking into using another office's RedDot system for content management
and Department-wide lookfeel standards. The RedDot admins say that in
order to
We are looking at putting these two components into linux servers on our
z890 IFL. So far I have only installed the 64bit versions of SLES 9
10. Does anyone have any hints/warnings/horror_stories about this? Any
recommendations for the installation of the 31bit SLES9?
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
Unfortunately, Chapter 3 of the ITM_Install.pdf that I have been given
has a chart of supported Operating systems for each of the components
and neither of these is supported on any 64bit zSeries system and
nothing newer than SLES9. SLES9 in okay because I have to have that for
Oracle, but I
I currently have Oracle10 running in a SLES9 system that was built to be a
general purpose system with a shared /usr. A system for Oracle or Apache2 or
Samba or other file/data manipulations.
Now I would like to restrict this system to just an Oracle workload. Does
anyone have a list of the
Thanks Dave Mark for leading to the next topic.
I have had to try putting multiple PAVed volumes together for a larger
filesystem for an Oracle database. This is to be under SLES9. I found some IBM
redpieces but they all show an example of a single PAVed volume.
Is there better documentation
The current DIRMAINT has special user-defined fields called TAGS. They can be
created, modified, deleted by standard DIRMAINT commands, not just
get|edit|replace.
snipped from DIRMAINT DEFINESTAG command
Use the DEFINESTAG operand of the DIRMAINT command to manipulate user defined
tagged
Is there a verification program that can be run in a SLES 9/10 guest to check
the functionality of the CPACF / Coprocessor / Accelerator ?
--- LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kind of stuck on this one. Had the CE come out and enable the Crypto
co-processor CPACF feature code
Since the z90crypt package does not seem to support the new instructions
provided by the CPACF feature, this seems like a new niche for an
enterprising third-party. A fast data encryption/decryption program that
supports AES is always helpful on U.S. government computer systems, even
linux under
Okay. That sounds better. So all of my OpenSSL processing already uses
the new KM/KMC instructions.
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
--Original Message---
From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is confusion. z90crypt operates the crypto cards. That's its sole
Are you looking for Disaster Recovery backups of z/VM and Linux DASD? Or are
you looking for file level backup/restore for these systems?
For DR purposes, DDR or other programs can dump/restore all of your DASD to VTS
tapes. Mounting the VTS tapes requires DFSMS/RM and is enhanced by tape
I use GNUPLOT under windows to interactively get my plot/chart the way I
like it, then I can transfer those control statements to a linux virtual
machine for an automated process. Such as a nightly FTP of VM
performance data to the linux virtual machine where a CRON job runs
GNUPLOT using the set
I cannot say if anyone has done it nor that it should be done for a production
workload, but I would like to see a 'recovery' system packaged in an NSS so
that I can quickly IPL a known system from within a broken instance, fix the
broken stuff and then IPL the fixed system. Much like sticking a
I second this recommendation for using Midnight Commander's edit function. You
can use it outside of the MC file/directory listing by using the mcedit
command. it is simple, responsive and uses some PF keys to get you through
things.
/Tom Kern
--- Terry Spaulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If
I hope you can build it with SSL support just in case he needs to run secured
sessions. That feature is why I have x3270 on a windows image here at home. We
do not allow unsecured tn3270 to our mainframe.
/Tom Kern
--- David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if there is any
Sorry, but IBM does not provide an SSH daemon for their z/VM system.
/Tom Kern
--- John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and presumably ssh and a VPN would do as well. I personally run openvpn
which uses UDP (TCP is possible too) and, other than the open UDP port,
doesn't require any
--- David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... snipped ...
1) Bandwidth --
2) Reliability --
3) What happens every time they release a new Intel version --
You can already get that. Heck, *we* supply a cheap install server in
CMSDDR format that works equally well for Debian or RH/SuSE.
My first suggestion is to get subscribed to the IBMVM listserv at
LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Now for your maintenance, it is nicer on z/VM than with z/OS because you
do not need another LPAR for testing. YOu can have cloned volumes or
reserved maintenance volumes owned by a class G virtual machine and you
It should not be too hard to create a myyast script to set TERM=linux, run yast
and reset TERM to its original value. Then mc gets to work with TERM=xterm and
yast sees its TERM=linux setting. It doesn't matter that PuTTY still thinks it
is using xterm.
/Tom Kern
--- Leland Lucius [EMAIL
Maybe some difference in the sshd/pam configurations?
--- LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One other item of interest. If I try to connect using keys, and not a
password, things work just fine. But, as I said, when I am not using
keys, I don't even get prompted for a password,
I was talking about the source of the SMSG that has arrived at my Linux
service virtual machine. Sources like OPERATOR, MAINT, VMUTIL, not the
anonymous userids (HACKER1, HACKER2, HACKER3) that are on the less properly
administrated systems. Inside the Linux service virtual machine, there are
also
I have suggested before that a Linux service virtual machine should have
a facility to accept SMSGs, validate the origin against an authorized
user list and process the content appropriately for that SVM.
The response has generally been that is a dinosaur-style mainframe thing
that doesn't belong
That's why I like using something internal to the zSeries for zSeries
communications and automation. The source of the data can be trusted to not be
spoofed so you can authenticate that against a table of authorized users and be
safe. With the VMCF protocal (SMSG is just a commandline SENDX,
I was never able to generate GPG or ssh public/private personal keys because of
the lack of entropy on my basically idle system. I had to generate all of the
personal keys down on my PC and upload them for use under Linux or z/OS.
/Tom Kern
--- Arty Ecock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I
This sounds like a good idea for another linux appliance. A centralized
logging and log-analysis server could be a nice drop-in appliance for a
fledgling penguin network. One spot to accumulate logs, rotate logs,
analyze logs and archive logs. Sounds much better than having to
configure each
We have used DFDSS, DDR and PIPEDDR to backup VM volumes containing
Linux data. Inside the Linux systems, we use TSM for filelevel
restores.
Does Bacula support encryption of the data on tape?
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is everyone using for Linux
For my SLES9 systems, I use 'SIGNAL SHUTDOWN FOR userx WITHIN 120' to
bring the servers down. For my older TurboLinux systems, I use SCIF to
enter a 'SHUTDOWN -H NOW' command at the server's virtual console. Once
all the Linus systems are down, I run the backups and use XAUTOLOG to
initiate each
So Bacula does NOT provide for the encryption of data on its own tapes
whether running on zSeries or x86? The encryption of off-site backup
tapes is a matter of discussion for all-platforms, not just our
mainframe.
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does Bacula
My way out of this problem was given by our Network/Cyber securiity people.
They don't want any clear-text FTP. It must be encrypted so I gave the web
content managers a copy of WinSCP, told them to save all the html as local
files and use WinSCP to upload them to our Linux system. I am not sure
I currently shutdown or linux guests and do full volume DDR backup of
all DASD. At our next DR exercise, I am going to see if recreating the
LVM volumes from scratch and restoring the data from TSM on z/OS will be
less time. If this is less time than DDR, then I will be able to reduce
my DDR
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