NFS mounted filesystem corruption problems

2012-02-28 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, We have a central NFS server that has several clients. This NFS server has a filesystem used to contain SAP transports. (For the SAP folks, this is our /usr/sap/trans filesystem.) To make a long story short, these transports are what SAP uses to move program and database

Re: Does cpuplugd use the cpu hot plug interface?

2012-02-23 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: Hello listers, We are experiencing a problem where occasionally we get some uninterruptable processes that appear to hang. We use CPUPLUGD. -snip- I found this hit that might be related: http://git390.marist.edu/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux

Does cpuplugd use the cpu hot plug interface?

2012-02-22 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, We are experiencing a problem where occasionally we get some uninterruptable processes that appear to hang. We use CPUPLUGD. The problem re-appeared whenever we moved workload around and caused some stress on memory. I found this hit that might be related:

Re: ksoftirqd using 100% CPU

2012-02-20 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Subject: Re: ksoftirqd using 100% CPU On 2/10/2012 at 11:33 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Friday, 02/10/2012 at 10:21 EST, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: I did not know that we could open a PMR with IBM directly. Only if your Linux support contract

Any recommendations on SET MIH

2012-02-17 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello, We recently started having a chpid start throwing interface control checks. The z/OS guy made the chpid unavailable to zOS and told us to vary off the chpid to z/VM. This happened a few months ago. Since then z/VM was IPL'ed. And the chpid started throwing Interface Control checks.

Re: ksoftirqd using 100% CPU

2012-02-10 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ksoftirqd using 100% CPU On Fri, Feb 10th, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Joerg Reuter wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:43:25PM -0600, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote: The only messages I can find have to do with a hipersockets time out. Feb 9 11:21:39 bus0104 kernel: NETDEV

Re: ksoftirqd using 100% CPU

2012-02-10 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ksoftirqd using 100% CPU On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:43:25PM -0600, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote: The only messages I can find have to do with a hipersockets time out. Feb 9 11:21:39 bus0104 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: hsi0: transmit timed out Feb 9 11:21:39

ksoftirqd using 100% CPU

2012-02-09 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, Last night I upgraded one of the Linux guests used by our developers to kernel level 2.6.16.60-0.95.1-default. (Latest SLES10 SP4 kernel) By about 11:30 AM this morning, I was getting complaints from our developers that the system was hanging. Looking around, I saw that

Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

2012-02-09 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1 On 2/3/2012 at 10:13 AM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: 3. You may ask why we used qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.0700 instead of the short interface name eth0. The reason why is that in our experience, the short interface names have this habit

Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

2012-02-09 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
/README.Persistent_Interface_Names for more info Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Foster at Baldor-IS Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 7:13 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Anyone lose network connectivity during

Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

2012-02-09 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Tobias, Yes the default route was pointing to an interface that used the long form of the interface name. It appears that SLES11 SP1 does not use that form of the interface name any more. Ron From: Linux on 390 Port [LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

2012-02-03 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Tobias, I will have to further testing, but I think you have come up with the cause of our problem. I am just going to have to figure out the best way to fix it. Here is the problem: 1. Almost all of our systems have more than one network interface. 2. So in order to avoid an error message,

Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

2012-02-02 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello, We are in the midst of performing our first upgrade from SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP1 and are having network connection issues. We are attempting to upgrade our Linux sandbox system that runs under z/VM. We ipl from the card reader and perform the first part of the upgrade just fine. After

Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

2012-02-02 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:31 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1 On 2/2/2012 at 02:34 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: We have also made an update run where we removed the interfaces from

Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

2012-02-02 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
to SLES11 SP1 On 2/2/2012 at 02:34 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: We have also made an update run where we removed the interfaces from the guest before we started. The results were the same. We try to connect to 10.80.200.126 and do not get a response. Any ideas? Also

Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

2012-02-02 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
No. The ping attempt was not made from the same subnet. We will try this on the next attempt. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 2/2/2012 at 04:14 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: My cohort said that in his latest try

Is it possible to upgrade from SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP1?

2012-02-01 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
to SLES11 SP1, I do not see SLES10 SP4 as a supported migration path. Anyone know if you can migrate from SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP1? Thanks, Ron Foster Baldor Electric -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Is it possible to upgrade from SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP1?

2012-02-01 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
[mp...@novell.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:55 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Is it possible to upgrade from SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP1? On 2/1/2012 at 09:33 AM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: Hello listers, Due to other work late last year, we were

Re: Is it possible to upgrade from SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP1?

2012-02-01 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
, February 01, 2012 2:22 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Is it possible to upgrade from SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP1? On 2/1/2012 at 03:10 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: One of my cohorts tried to upgrade a system. He said he got a message saing something like

Interface control check message in /var/log/messages

2011-11-30 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, While looking for something else, I ran across the following in /var/log/messages. As far as I can tell, these messages have only appeared once. (I did not look that hard.) The message came out of our Linux LPAR system. Nov 29 17:20:08 busnfs kernel: dasd_erp(3990): 0.0.940f:

Re: Interface control check message in /var/log/messages

2011-11-30 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
help. Ron Foster Baldor From: Linux on 390 Port [LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes [marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:55 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Interface control check message in /var

Re: Interface control check message in /var/log/messages

2011-11-30 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
: Ensuring correct channel path status Note: I recommend that you first run lscss to make sure no other devices, eg. the 3215, are using the chpid. Mike O'Reilly IBM Linux Change Team Ron Foster at Baldor-IS RFoster@baldor.c

Re: Interface control check message in /var/log/messages

2011-11-30 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
check message in /var/log/messages On 11/30/2011 at 02:49 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: Mike/Marcy, I have got the chpid varied off. For the benefit of others, how did you do that? Mark Post

Re: Accessing Old Linux System After DASD Move

2011-11-03 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
You'll then also need the other volumes, probably also at their prior subchannel addresses. (I/O addresses are not necessarily cast in stone, but you don't know at this point.) In my experience, the important address to get correct is the IPL volume. That address appears to be baked into the

Re: Yast not auto selecting all security and recommended patches

2011-10-16 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
On 10/14/2011 at 05:08 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: It sounds logical, but the line in the yast update screen implies SP4. For example, *slesp4-SPident *Recommended update for SPident *recommended*7441-0* Ron, What does rpm -q SPident report

Yast not auto selecting all security and recommended patches

2011-10-14 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, I was in the process of verifying that the proper patches were installed on a group of servers that were freshly upgraded from SLES10SP3 to SLES10SP4. When I went into online update, I noticed several patches that were classified as security or recommended that were not auto

Fwd: Yast not auto selecting all security and recommended patches

2011-10-14 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
that appear to be in this state. Ron Original Message Subject:Yast not auto selecting all security and recommended patches Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:29:48 -0500 From: Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com Organization: Baldor Electric Company To: Linux

Re: Yast not auto selecting all security and recommended patches

2011-10-14 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Of Mark Post [mp...@novell.com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 3:40 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Yast not auto selecting all security and recommended patches On 10/14/2011 at 04:29 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: If I manually select a patch, I get

Re: DASD assignment different between SLES10 and SLES11

2011-09-29 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Peter, Actually we observed this behavior as far back as SLES10 SP3. We started using persistent device names and forgot about it. The documentation for this is in the release notes. From the release notes: Installation using Persistent Device names If you plan to add additional

Re: DASD assignment different between SLES10 and SLES11

2011-09-29 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
on /dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.5F swapon ?s Is this what I should do? I am hesitant as there might me other scripted mounts that do /dev/dasdx# . Should I eat the bullet now or defer? Peter From: Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 09/29/2011 11

Re: Mount error

2011-08-24 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Saurabh, First we need to determine if you really need to reach out from one Linux system to fix another Linux system. At some point in the life of SLES, it became possible to put an appropriate entry in the /etc/inittab. That entry allowes you to access the ASCII console emulator that is a

Re: location of Yast files

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
I had a smiliar problem when we had to change the IP address of our NFS server. If you are SLES10.. Try looking at /var/lib/zypp/db/sources. Look through the files and find the one that describes the installation source you are interested in. This will let you get into yast, but just changing

Anyone know what a disabled wait 62c8 means?

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Everyone, I have been trying to boot a z/vm SLES10 SP3 guest that has been shut down for a while. After the first page or so of messages, I get a HCPGIR450W 00020001 8000 0011662c8 The last message put out by the SLES boot process before this message is: IP route cache hash table

Re: multipl cpu's

2011-04-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello, We are a SAP shop and do not run WebSphere. However we do run some SAP Java instances. On some of those systems, we have found it beneficial to define two CPUS, and let the garbage collector know about it. Depending on the size of your heap, sometimes the the garbage collection times

Security question about having zLinux web servers out in DMZ.

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, Our company has recently been acquired by another company. We are at the point of having to get our two networks to talk to each other. Before we can do that, we have to comply with certain security rules. One of them being that the mainframe cannot be exposed to the internet.

Re: Security question about having zLinux web servers out in DMZ.

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
identify the IP addresses envolved. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Ron Foster at Baldor-ISrfos...@baldor.com 3/30/2011 10:56 AM Hello listers, Our company has recently been acquired by another company. We are at the point of having to get our two networks to talk to each other. Before we can do

Re: Advice on setting up minidisks

2011-01-18 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-ISrfos...@baldor.com wrote: Hello list, This may have been discussed before... Way back in deep dark ancient history, we used the Redbook to get

Advice on setting up minidisks

2011-01-13 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello list, This may have been discussed before... Way back in deep dark ancient history, we used the Redbook to get started with Linux under z/VM. As a result, we carved up our storage subsystem in to a bunch of mod3 drives. We put a few mod 9 drives in the mix. We added drives to a guest

Defining channel bonding of OSA adapters with Yast

2010-11-16 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, We had an OSA adapter go out the other night on our z10. Our linux guests running under z/VM did not have any problems when this OSA adapter went out. The vswitches they were attached to had multiple adapters defined to them. The vswitch just moved things around and they just

Re: CRON

2010-08-05 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
If running SLES, have you looked at /etc/sysconfig/cron Mark Pace wrote: Is there an easy way to make cron not send me an email every time it runs one of my jobs? I have one job that runs every 15 mins, and as you may imagine that generates a lot of mail. Or is there a way clean up an mbox

Re: input requested on running SAP on z/Linux

2010-08-04 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Mark, Is it ok to let this person know we would be willing to talk to him. (This is the original e-mail.) Ron bruce.light...@its.ms.gov wrote: We are in the research and planning stage of a project that will probably be an SAP implementation with DB2 as the database back-end. Currently, we

Re: Red Hat 5 Update 5 Install Failing on Network

2010-05-24 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
William, I am a SLES person instead of a Red Hat person, but... We use vswitches for connection our Linux guests to the outside world. I get similar problems when I forget to authorize a newly created Linux guest to the vswitch. Also, is 512MB enough to do a Red Hat install? I have had a

Re: SMT and cloned DASD

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Miguel, We are still SLES10. We use a technique similar to the one outline in this URL. http://www.novell.com/support/php/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=7005155sliceId=1docTypeID=DT_TID_1_1dialogID=143913381stateId=0%200%20143909538 Even though it mentions Xen. It works for z/VM.

SAP Application server size

2010-05-06 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
To the SAP folks out there. Our company is still in the process of assimilating workload from an acquisition that we made in 2007. Most of that workload has been going into our Production ECC system that has 2 batch servers, 3 SD servers, 4 MMPP servers, a FICO server, and an IPP server. Over

Re: SLES10 upgrade from SP2 to SP3

2010-04-23 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Just remember to put on all the SP2 patches before you select the move to sp3 patch. Ron Sent from my iPhone On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: Once I selected the 'move-to sle10-sp3' it came up with a warning that said don't install until

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Gieseler _ Technical Sales Specialist for System z - Linux and z/VM - IBM Brasil fone: +55-51-2131-5848 cel: +55-51-9988-8177 fax: +55-51-2131-5875 ITN: 5 759-5848 T/L: 759-5848 f...@br.ibm.com From: Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com To: LINUX-390

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Shane, Based on your comment... We have opened up problems with Novell and SAP. So far this has happened on two of our Linux Guests. We crashed and booted one Monday night. We crashed and booted the other one Tuesday night. (On the off chance that it might help, last night I took a

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
-8177 fax: +55-51-2131-5875 ITN: 5 759-5848 T/L: 759-5848 f...@br.ibm.com From: Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 06/04/2010 12:02 Subject:Re: Unable to kill process Sent by:Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-06 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
to complete i/o?) were you alreday in shutdown? soemtimes the order that things are shutdoiwn is very important (users/sap/nfs/filesystem/network). mark On 6 April 2010 06:41, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: Hello, I just had to #CP logoff on of our production SAP systems

Re: Unable to kill process

2010-04-06 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Mark, If kill -9 doesn't work then the process is in a system routine that can be cancelled. Thanks for the info. Did you have a problem with disks and/or nfs? (sap process needing to complete i/o?) We happen to have the problem on another SAP application server as I am typing this. I have

Unable to kill process

2010-04-05 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello, I just had to #CP logoff on of our production SAP systems. It had a SAP process on it with a process state of D interruptible sleep. The sap cancel options would not work. kill would not work. kill -9 would not work on it. Any ideas on how to avoid having to log off next time. Ron

Re: How to tell what logical volume is called dm-7

2010-02-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
: How to tell what logical volume is called dm-7 The only way I figured out how to do it is to compare the minor numbers of the /dev/dm-* files with the /dev/mapper/* files and match them up. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: Hello list, We

How to tell what logical volume is called dm-7

2010-02-24 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello list, We are having a problem with a file system. We are using lvm. The message is telling us we have a problem with dm-7. How do we tell which logical volume is represented by dm-7. Thanks, ROn -- For LINUX-390

Oops message in /var/log/messages

2010-02-04 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Everyone, This is something I have never ran into. It is coming out of a system running SAP. (Our main test system.) # uname -a Linux bus0104 2.6.16.60-0.34-default #1 SMP Fri Jan 16 14:59:01 UTC 2009 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux Any ideas: Feb 4 10:05:45 bus0104g syslog-ng[1630]: STATS:

Re: Oops message in /var/log/messages

2010-02-04 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Mark, I have followed your suggestion. Ron Mark Post wrote: On 2/4/2010 at 11:53 AM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: Any ideas: Feb 4 10:05:45 bus0104g syslog-ng[1630]: STATS: dropped 0 Feb 4 10:08:34 bus0104g kernel: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference

Re: LOGOFF FORCED BY SYSTEM

2009-12-21 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Frank, When you had the Linux VM 3270 console up, how did you get out of the console session? Did you #cp disc? Did you just close the emulator? Ron Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: Installing a new Linux VM and got this over the weekend (or actually this morning): DISCONNECT AT 00:00:00 CST MONDAY

Re: move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem

2009-12-02 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Foster at Baldor

Re: move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem

2009-12-02 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
2.0G. SLESUPdate:/srv/www/htdocs/repo/$RCE/SLES10-SP3-Online/sles-10-s390x # I appear to have stuff in my rpm and repodata directory. Following Marcy's suggestion, I have opened a SR. Ron Mark Post wrote: On 12/1/2009 at 4:54 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: -snip

move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem

2009-12-01 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
ideas, Ron Foster Baldor Electric -- 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

Re: move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem

2009-12-01 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Foster at Baldor-IS Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:54 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem Hello listers, We have just started the process of upgrading our sles10 sp2 systems to sles10 sp3

Re: move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem

2009-12-01 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
[mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Foster at Baldor-IS Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:06 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem Marcy, I am using the Novell provided script. Looking at the log, I see the following command

Re: OSA-Express3 10 Gb, Vswitch, and SLES10 Linux Throughput

2009-10-26 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Craig, In another SHARE session, I seem to remember that if you need to have very communications high throughput then you do not want to use VSWITCHes. Instead you want to dedicate a connection to the OSA adapter. (I am unable at the moment to find that presentation.) However, in Mario Held's

Re: OSA-Express3 10 Gb, Vswitch, and SLES10 Linux Throughput

2009-10-26 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Craig, Pieter gave you the information on how to bond multiple OSA adapters together. He did not cover the user direct entries. You will need some dedicate statements in your directory. Lets say that your Linux guest is looking for the vswitch at 0.0.0600 0.0.0601 0.0.0602, and your OSA

RMF PM presentation from System z Expo

2009-10-12 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello, Last week my boss attended a presentation Monitoring Linux Performance with RMF Now he is wanting it installed and would like to evaluate it. Way back in the 2005 and 2006 time frame we looked at it. Primarily based on what we found on the internet, we discontinued it's use. I have

Re: Wiki Request: Disaster Recovery

2009-09-28 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Look at it now. Is this what you had in mind? Ron Sent from my iPhone On Sep 28, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Kern, Thomas thomas.k...@hq.doe.gov wrote: I like how the wiki is beginning to take shape. But I do have a request. Can the content of the Disaster Recovery subpage be moved down in a

Re: Renaming a volume

2009-09-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
You could have a zos person clip the volser. Ron Sent from my iPhone On Sep 25, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Christian Paro christian.p...@gmail.com wrote: So it's not letting you use the -k (--keep_volser) option unless you also specify -a? Because, at least looking at the man page, -k should

Re: FDR Upstream for DR

2009-09-18 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Bobby, I have a procedure that we use for SLES. At the point you are doing the restore, you are using lvm commands. There should not be too much of a difference between redhat and SLES in that regard. Send me a note offlist if you would like it. Ron Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: We are

Re: Anyone using SMT with SLES10 on zseries

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Ann, We are using it on SLES10. At the time, we were upgrading from SLES9 to SLES10 and having problems getting our systems to register with Novell. We put up a system under VMWARE, set up SMT, then registered all of our newly upgraded SLES10 systems with it. It works. Ron Smith, Ann (ISD,

Re: Dasd_diag_mod question

2009-07-29 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Ray, When you include dasd_diag_mod in the kernel configuration, did you put the dasd drivers in the correct order? Ours is: INITRD_MODULES=reiserfs dm_mod dasd_diag_mod dasd_eckd_mod dasd_fba_mod If dasd_fba_mod is first, then the vdisk will always be detected at bootup as fba. Once upon a

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
David, When you say, you have to connect to the system via the HMC, are you talking about the operating systems messages interface or the ASCII console interface? You say both ports. This implies more than one interface. What is your default route set to in /etc/sysconfig/network/routes? Is

Re: OSA/Express Assistance

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
allowed you to cut and paste... Let me see if I can get the ascii console working, and check on the files you were asking about. Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 david.stu...@ventura.org Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com 7/21/2009

Re: Datacenter Move

2009-07-09 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Russell, Do you have your Linux LPAR set up to access the HMC's emulated ASCII Console? This could come in real handy if you DO NOT have IP support after you IPL. You need to do this on your current system and try it out before you move your datacenter. Just uncomment the following in your

Re: Mounting root fs of one instance to another instance to make repairs

2009-06-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Gary, I need a little more information on how your systems are set up. Are you using lvm for your operating system disk on instance a and instance b? Ron Lee, Gary D. wrote: Under vm 5.3 both instances are suse sles10. Some one edited the /etc/inittab on instance A. How can we mount

Re: Registering a SLES zlinux server with novell?

2009-05-26 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Lionel, Back when we first ran into that problem, it would start up a text based browser and you could complete the registration. However, with the number of systems, we ended up using Novell's subscription management tool. Ron Lionel B Dyck wrote: When I ssh (KiTTY) to my SLES zlinux server

Cpuplugd-setting CPU_MIN to 1

2009-05-04 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello Listers, We are a SAP shop. For some time now, I have been using cpuplugd to control the number of CPUs that our batch servers have. This seems to work fine. I have been using the supplied example that had the minimum number of CPUs set to 2. Now I am looking at our production SAP

Re: Teaching SMT to properly count licenses.

2009-04-29 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Mark, Yes the deviceid and secret files are the same on all the new systems. Ron Mark Post wrote: On 4/28/2009 at 5:31 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: -snip- Any ideas on how to get the clones built from a clone master to show up properly on the smt reports

Teaching SMT to properly count licenses.

2009-04-28 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, We use Novell's Subscription Management Tool to maintain a local copy of maintenance for our SLES10 SP2 systems. For a long time now, I have noticed that the counts provided by the tool are off. Recently, I was made aware by our Novell Rep that Novell had a document (7002030)

Re: Formatting DASD for SLES 10

2009-03-02 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Craig, I have three LPARs that run Linux for zSeries. The SUSE Linux install program has a way to format the drives. Once you boot the system and have gained access to the installer via VNC, you are presented with a series of panels. On one of them, you activate the dasd. Another option on

SLES10 Kernels used on SAP application servers

2009-02-24 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello listers, We are a SAP shop. We are at SLES10 SP2. On our SLES10 SP2 application servers we have been using the kernel that came with SLES10SP2. That is: 2.6.16.60-0.21-default The SAP OSS Note (81737) that lets you know what release levels are supported says that this Service Pack level

Does this red alert apply

2009-01-29 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello list, My boss just sent me this link and asked me if this applied to us: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/20081031.html We do have some SLES10 SP2 servers that have have use a smbfs connection over a Windows server. (In /etc/fstab, the file system is smbfs.)

Re: HiperSocket Performance

2009-01-15 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Dave, With the above settings I'm seeing throughput in the area of 15-18 Mb per second. We also have FDR/UPSTREAM and use hipersockets to access the zOS tape library. Our SAP systems run continuously except for a very small window early Sunday morning. (Too small to perform all of our

Re: Losing IP connection on Virtual switch durin SLES10 installation

2009-01-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Jihad, This is just a thought. When you first logon onto the Linux guest on the 3270 session, are you getting this message? *NIC f003 is created; devices f003-f005 defined * Ron -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Multiple Network Interface Routing Problem

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Justin, We have systems with multiple network interfaces. I finally had to modify the default route in /etc/sysconfig/network/routes to look like this. default 32.71.175.1 - qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.0600 Notice I had to use the persistent name for the interface. The eth0, eth1 type of name can

Re: Multiple Network Interface Routing Problem

2009-01-06 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
of our systems we have two hipersocket interfaces defined-5100 and 5200. hsi0 is not always 5100. Now that I know that the rules file is there, I can go fix it. But I have other things to do right now. Thanks for the info, Ron Mark Post wrote: On 1/6/2009 at 12:32 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor

Re: OSA NICDEF address change

2008-12-30 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Also, /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.0340 And inside of the hwcfg file: CCW_CHAN_IDS=0.0.0340 0.0.0341 0.0.0342 Ron Foster David Kreuter wrote: what version of SUSE? for openers look at /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.0340 - it will need to be renamed. David

Re: 31/32-bit perl on 64-bit SLES ?

2008-12-15 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
at the right time. Ron John Summerfield wrote: Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote: Bruce, I have had a little experience getting 32 bit modules working on 64 bit systems. In most cases, there are 32 bit versions in addition to the 64 bit versions of modules. And they can co-exist with the 64 bit

Re: 31/32-bit perl on 64-bit SLES ?

2008-12-11 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Bruce, I have had a little experience getting 32 bit modules working on 64 bit systems. In most cases, there are 32 bit versions in addition to the 64 bit versions of modules. And they can co-exist with the 64 bit versions without too much trouble. When you loaded your system did you check

Re: LPAR (no VM) DASD migration

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hi, Sorry about earlier post. I am still not used to this Blackberry. We have three LPARs running Linux. You should be able to use the install CDs as a rescue system to fix up the initrd and do a zipl. (I actually define a virtual machine under zVM, and use the install CDs under zVM, but I

Re: NFS Lockd daemon consuming large amounts of CPU

2008-11-14 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Hello, Sorry about responding slowly. It seems that the new spam filter here at work is filtering out some of the messages from the mailing list. I did not notice the response until I went over to mail-archive.com. can Hopefully the mail folks to find out why I did not get your responses.

Re: NFS Lockd daemon consuming large amounts of CPU

2008-11-14 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
on the NFS server, the lockd process was no longer consuming large amounts of CPU. Thanks, Ron Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote: Hello, Sorry about responding slowly. It seems that the new spam filter here at work is filtering out some of the messages from the mailing list. I did not notice

NFS Lockd daemon consuming large amounts of CPU

2008-11-13 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
... ...... IFL So I am pretty sure there is a cpu consumption with this nfs server and lockd in particular. Has anyone else run into a problem like this? Ron Foster Baldor -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Cloning SuSE 10 under Vm

2008-10-29 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Foster Baldor Stahr, Lea wrote: I am using the same method of cloning SuSE 10 that I used for SuSE 8. I DDR the disks, the use RPL to replace the name and IP in /etc files. This worked well for SuSE 8, but for SuSE 10 I have a file(s) somewhere else that is not being changed and prevents me from

Re: SLES10 in an LPAR and kernel.hz_timer

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Rob, z/VM is an extremely stable product. We use it to run around 40 or so Linux guests. A Linux system in an LPAR can and does have problems that a Linux guest running under z/VM will not have. z/VM handles it in such a way that the Linux guest does not see it. Any time I have to apply any

Re: hipersocket

2008-10-16 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Gerard, In a qdio environment, you have a queue of buffers (default 16 inbound). Depending on you situation, the storage wastage can add up. I am not sure, but I think that these buffers have to be locked in storage. If you have a large number of hipersocket connections and a large number of

Re: SuSE 10 SP 2 - New Install - Misc Questions

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
David, I ran into problem 1 a couple of weeks ago. This appears to be a change that happened with SP2. Previously I had been able to define an OSA connection by picking the first address. For example, I could pick 0.0.0600 and YAST would know to pick up 0.0.0601 and 0.0.0602. With SP2, as

Re: SuSE 10 SP 2 - New Install - Misc Questions

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Foster at Baldor-IS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/14/2008 9:12 AM David, I ran into problem 1 a couple of weeks ago. This appears to be a change that happened with SP2. Previously I had been able to define an OSA connection by picking the first

Re: Linux reiserfs mounting issue - system hangs

2008-09-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Mary, I am not familiar with FBA devices, but I have done some work with Upstream recovery. Are you planning on using FDR/Upstream to perform the recovery? If so Upstream is file based, not filesystem based. That is you might not have to restore your 100G file system to reiser, you might

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-15 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Has anyone come to a conclusion? Run NTP or not? Adjust the time once a day using cron? Ron Foster -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO

Re: Rename vol label

2008-08-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
If you have a zOS system that can access your drives, then you can have the zOS systems programmer clip your volume serial number. David Boyes wrote: How the volume label can be changed for the Z/linux machine which is cloned . Use minidisks. Then you don't have to change them.

Differences in installation source

2008-08-05 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
the Installation Sources on a SP2 system that was updated by YaST Online Update? Thanks, Ron Foster Baldor Electric 479-648-5865 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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