I see this in the append:
> smcli is supported.
But in an SR I have open, I see this:
> z/VM does not own or officially support the smcli function.
You can't have it both ways.
-Mike M
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Emily K Hugenbruch <ekhugenbr...@us.ibm.com
> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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