I'd be happy with a template! I easily accept some tailoring. But
trying to take WAS's oddball scripts and what they return and fit that
into the /etc/init.d/skeleton pattern can be done, but it's not for a
novice... (And yes, David's Oracle is a help, but it's still a foreign
language to an MVS sysprog starting with Linux...)
And yea -- what Mary said! Install by rpm instead of Java windows...
(I had a busy z800 customer give up and go home because the WAS
install took so long -- hours before we left.) Get those Java install
code writers to do something more valuable and send some sample (or
live) startup scripts! ;-)
Lee
James Melin wrote:
Here's the problem with IBM writing your startup script for you - WebSphere
changes over time. Servers are added. Servers are removed. Server names
can change. All of this must be reflected in your startup script.
You may be sharing some of your disks read only across multiple WebSpheres...
you might not be. YOu may want to start the Servers and node agent but
not the deployment manager... there are many possibilities.
Now, providing a template is something else entirely.
We ourselvs are using the CMSFS to read a file from the LNXADMIN Id's 192 disk
to see if WebSphere should start or not. If it should we call a second
script that used to be pointed to by the SxxWebSphere symlink in
/etc/init.d/rc5.d - The startup profile here has changed drastically since it's
inception.
I feel your pain, however.
-J
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OK, this is what I thought -- and agree with...
Now I have to really grumble at IBM... Am I missing something or isn't
that missing what should be a key part of the product? Is it really
reasonable that every single shop has to write their own init.d
script???? Every shop expected to reinvent that wheel? Surely they
might anticipate that at least some shops might want to start Websphere
at system startup time...
Add to that the fact that many of the Linux installations on the
mainframe don't have someone who speaks bash (at least not when they're
getting started). (We don't recall any option during the install to
have it autostart - at least this level from this CD.)
So to the MVS sysprog I have three choices to offer them:
a. Follow IBM's advice and do it manually
b. Quick, in your "spare" time go learn bash scripts and write your
own init.d script for /etc/init.d
c. Stuff it in /etc/inittab
As much as b. is the "right" choice, I suspect c. will win almost
everytime....
IBM WAS and DB2 and MQ people -- are you listening?
</rant>
Lee
Adam Thornton wrote:
On May 3, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Lee Stewart wrote:
Hi...
What are people doing to automatically start things like WAS, DB2, MQ
etc.? Stuffing it at the end of /etc/inittab? Writing your own
start/stop script for /etc/init.d? What's the "best" place to
stick it?
One of our clients was told "have someone logon and issue..." -- by
someone at IBM (aka: It's Better Manually). Sigh...
I gave a talk on this (it's really David's talk) at WAVV, and you can
get it from the sinenomine.net web site.
The short answer is: yes, write your own init.d script. That
directory will contain plenty of models for how to do it. DON'T put
it in /etc/inittab. And DON'T start it manually--you have automation
of production systems for a reason.
Adam
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