Hi, Although I responded to Mike directly, reposting here for the listserv's benefit with some extra information:
smcli is supported. We ship it as part of our z/VM Cloud Manager Appliance, so it's supported that way. It's also supported via open source, it could be separated from the rest of the zHCP code and run standalone. We even have a wiki that explains exactly how to do this https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/W21ed5ba0f4a9_46f4_9626_24cbbb86fbb9/page/Using%20the%20zHCP%20code%20without%20CMA Anyone is welcome to open Github issues on it https://github.com/zVMopenstack/zhcp/issues It can be run with sudo. The problem originated because it was run once as root, which created the file that tracks the SMAPI level: /var/opt/zhcp/smapi.level and then it was run not as root, so that file is not available. I did submit a patch https://review.gerrithub.io/#/c/361193/ to make the error messages easier to decipher. We can add a second patch that also makes sure the file name is put out on every error message (or anyone else can, we're always happy to review any submissions). Furthermore, as the newly created project maintainer for the Open Mainframe Project's Cloudstack for z/VM project, I invite anyone interested in the topic of cloud and z/VM to join us. We have weekly calls (we're leaning towards Fridays at 11 eastern) where you can articulate your requirements or talk about what you think cloud should look like on z. If you'd like a meeting invite please send me an email. We can also discuss these topics on the Open Mainframe Project's forum http://community.openmainframeproject.org/ or Slack channel https://openmainframeproject.slack.com Thank you. Sincerely, Emily Kate Hugenbruch OpenStack Cloud Enablement Engineer - z/VM and Software Engineer - z/VM IBM Corporation Endicott, NY Twitter: @ekhugen IRC: ekhugen@freenode From: Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/19/2017 01:43 PM Subject: Linux SMAPI wrappers Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Hello list, One way to automate operations (aka do Private Cloud) is to use z/VM's SMAPI. There are two ways to call 'SMAPIs' from Linux that I know of: 1) The bash smaclient from Sine Nomine (thanks to Leland, et al) 2) The C compiled smcli originating from IBM (thanks to Chuck, Thang, Emily, et al) Both are large and helpful pieces of code. However, neither are 'supported' to my knowledge, but smcli seems to be somewhat 'more supported' in that I've seen updates to it recently. We've gotten errors on smaclient of the form "Unable to bind: 98" which seems to lose connectivity to SMAPI when the CPU utilization is 'high'. So I'm looking into switching to smcli. It works fine when I run as root, but everybody knows That's Bad so I try as a non-root and get the error: # *smcli Image_Query_DM -T VMENG004* ERROR: File stat error. Errno: 13 ERROR: Unable to determine SMAPI level. Error number 13 seems to be a generic UNIX/Linux error for "not authorized". Does anyone know which files/directories are in question? I was hoping it would be easy enough to chown/chmod some files or directories. Or does anyone know how to use smcli as non-root? Thanks. -- -Mike MacIsaac ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
