> Is there an automated method for putting the "penguin flock" to sleep prior > to bringing down VM?
If you have complex, inter-related dependencies between the zLinux guests and their tasks and even tasks running on z/OS as well, your best startup and shutdown automation would be to use the new System Automation for z/OS V2R3 VM guest support. For example, you could setup SA policy (no REXX required) that would accomplish: 1 - start zLinux-A and when it's UP (actually UP and ready for work as defined by a message or some other event or even a proactive command, for instance, a positive ping response) then, 2 - start task-A on zLinux-A and when it's UP then, 3 - start zLinux-B and when it's UP then, 4 - start task-B on zLinux-B and when it's UP then, 5 - start DB2 on z/OS-A and when it's UP then, 6 - start the LDAP server on z/OS-B and when it's UP then, 7 - start the WAS on zLinux-C then, 8 - send an email to a predefined distribution list then, 9 - now monitor everything started (on any zLinux guest or z/OS image) for any problems such as abends and recover accordingly. The shutdown would be exactly the reverse of the above and would actually use the same simple SA policy entries. You could also automate the above process (startup or shutdown) with a timer, an SA service period (calendar) entry or a single operator command. You could also monitor the entire process from the NetView Management Console GUI (NMC) that would be showing views of all the SA automated objects and processes. For more on SA23 see here: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/sa/whatsnew/ And if anyone wants to discuss automating their zLinux guests (and/or bare LPARs) with SA23 please give me a call anytime. ======================================================== Andrew McIntyre - Senior I/T Specialist - certified zSeries Software Technical Sales SMPO (Software Migration Project Office) TMT (Tivoli Migration Team) 404-487-2477 or tie 546-2477 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================== SMPO http://www.ibm.com/software/solutions/softwaremigration NetView for z/OS http://www.ibm.com/tivoli/products/netview-zos/resources/nv390-update.html System Automation for z/OS http://www.s390.ibm.com/sa ======================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
