On Monday, 04/20/2009 at 11:02 EDT, Patrick Spinler <[email protected]> wrote: > Second, and possibly related to the first, how CSE aware is SMAPI? Do I > have to install an independent SMAPI installation on each node of our > CSE, or is it smart enough to know how to e.g. login or shutdown guests > on specific nodes in the CSE? If the latter, how do I configure it?
You have to install the SMAPI infrastructure on each z/VM instance. If you have CIM clients (such as IBM Director), then you also have to have a CIM server (part of IBM Director server) on each z/VM instance. The SMAPI has no awareness that what it is doing on System A is also changing things on System B. > Fourth, for other reasons (see the recent discussion on granting a > vswitch to guests) we're considering finally breaking down and using an > ESM, in our case piggybacking on the z/OS guy's racf. Are there any > special considerations for using SMAPI in a RACF ESM enabled z/VM? You will likely want to enable DirMaint's automatic use of RACF. SMAPI does not issue RACF commands, but assumes that the directory manager will take care of any needed ESM definitions and authorizations. Look for USE_RACF = YES in Dirmaint. And just so you know, there is no "piggybacking" between z/OS and z/VM RACF in this scenario. That is, you can't use some "RACF Lite" thingie on VM that gets its services from z/OS. You can piggyback on your z/OS guy's skills, but RACF on your z/VM system should be administered from z/VM. (Shared database is possible, but not recommended.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
