On Tuesday, 03/11/2008 at 08:49 EDT, "Spracklen, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if someone could provide clarification on the set up to use > SNMP to manage virtual switches with z/VM 5.3.0. > > In the z/VM TCP/IP Planning and Customization book (chapters 21 & 23), it > mentions the requirement to define a manager for the virtual switch by adding > the "VSWITCH vswitchnm" option to a HOME statement in a z/VM TCP/IP stack. > Does that VSWITCH vswitchnm option use a link associated with one of my > existing osa's (either with a device address range already defined or a new > address range) that are attached to the TCPIP stack or to the separate osa's > associated with my vswitch? Does the ip address need to be added to the mproute > config that is associated with the TCP/IP stack so that ospf can add it to the > routing table?
The HOME statement identifies an interface in your VM TCP/IP configuration; it is not a reference to the OSAs attached to the VSWITCH. That is, if you had a virtual CTC in PROFILE TCPIP, you could assign its home IP address to one of your VSWITCHes. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
