Nagios or Hobbit are quite nice for that sort of thing, or just use the same tools you use for the distributed systems. If you don't have such tools, that's a nice thing to offer the rest of the organization as (another) reason for the Linux on Z distribution.
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert J McCarthy Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Process or tool to verify linux/oracle environment under vm We are looking to implement a tool or develop a process for use by the Operations staff to use to check the availablilty of our linux guests running under vm. When we IPL vm, the vm guests all start, however sometimes, linux and/or Oracle database running under linux donot correctly complete initialization. We need an operator friendly tool or process to verify linux and oracle availablility at IPL time, whenever a linux guest is recycled, or any other time operations deems necessary. We are trying to find out what others are using. Thanks, Bob
