Thanks for the note. I did check for hardware failures, but nothing is on the HMC.
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mrohs, Ray Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 2:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/VM Stopped Responding The real ultimate solution would have been to do a restart dump so that IBM could take a look at what was last happening on your system. Hopefully your OPERATOR id has its console output spooled to someplace. Type Q R OPERATOR or Q P OPERATOR. If you don't have VM:Spool, you need to get those spool file(s) 'owned' by your userid via the TRANSFER command. Then either PEEK the spool file, or RECEIVE the whole file to your A disk. There is online help for all these commands. If you have an external security manager, you would also want to look at those spool files in a similar manner, since those facilities can sometimes bring the OS to its knees. The hardware console should save any system abend codes if they are generated. Did you check for hardware failure? Ray Mrohs US DOJ ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kreiter, Chuck Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: z/VM Stopped Responding Last week, while I was out of the office, we had our first unplanned z/VM outage. We are running z/VM 5.3 with about 20 guests. Symptoms were that a user tried to access a Linux guest to do a production code move around 10:00 PM. He was unable to get in. Then, the operators received lightening bolt messages and nothing on z/VM or any of the Linux systems were available. The ultimate resolution was to re-IPL. All was fine afterwards. My dilemma is that I'm not accustomed to debugging z/VM. I'd really like to look at the system logs for that time to see if there are any messages. I know that can be done, but for the life of me can not find any procedures to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chuck Kreiter State Auto Insurance
