On Tuesday, 03/11/2008 at 04:53 EDT, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VSWITCHes don't have any TCP/IP parameters associated with them, per se. No IP > addresses, no routes, etc. The only reason z/VM TCP/IP is involved as all is > as a controller of the OSA hardware. (The z/VM developers decided it wouldn't > make much sense to write a brand new SVM to manage the OSAs for VSWITCH when > they already had all that code built into TCP/IP.) CP does all the rest.
Not *quite* true any more. As of z/VM 5.3 a VSWITCH can be associated with an IP address so that the VSWITCH SNMP subagent (user SNMPSUBA) can disambiguate queries for different VSWITCHes. In this way, your VSWITCHes can be monitored by industry-standard IEEE 802.1q switch monitoring software. (Just don't try to ssh into them! :-) ) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
