On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:32:14PM +0530, Maneesh Menon wrote: > What is SE
In this case, "Service Element". It's a separate computer installed inside the 390/zSeries processor unit. The SE is used to control startup of the 390, download microcode, etc before the 390 is capable of doing it for itself. Once the system is running, the SE is responsible for monitoring the health of the hardware, and reporting problems to the operators and (optionally) directly to IBM via the "phone home" feature. SE is also used for "sales engineer", eg your local IBM salesdroid. > What is a Processor Configuration Token? This gets into that dynamic I/O configuration stuff I mentioned. Simple version: it designates which LPAR within a physical complex controls the definition of the running I/O configuration. Obviously, multiple systems writing dynamic updates into the IO config based on different ideas of what the configuration should be is a Bad Thing. The hardware only listens to the system that possesses the PCT. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
