Adam Thornton wrote:
On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Brandon Darbro wrote:
Things my fellow admins face when trying to support z/Linux:
* Different backup solution than the rest of distrubted Unix/Linux.
Why? Bacula and Amanda run spiffily under it.
* Different system health monitoring system.
Why? Nagios runs spiffily on it.
Now, granted, neither of these has a lot of z/VM *host* support out
of the box (watch this space, though...), but if what you care about
is Linux, those apps treat it like Linux on any other architecture.
If the issue is "whatever backup and monitoring products we run for
x86 Linux aren't available for zSeries Linux"...then that's a problem
with your vendor and its responsiveness to your needs, not Linux on
zSeries.
Adam
The problem is with enterprise wide standards we use for these things.
We just recently (*finally*) got the backup software available, but it's
sans the Oracle agent, so it's only mostly useful. As for the
monitoring software, it's available for x86 but not zSeries, and to be
honest it shouldn't go on zSeries. It's too much of a resource eater to
be on a system where we bill folks for cpu usage. An idle system should
be as idle as possible to avoid racking up huge bills, so a monitoring
solution that is constantly buzzing on the cpu would be bad. I wish I
felt I could share what these products were, but Boeing really frowns on
going public with technologies we use, for fear of it sounding like an
endorsement.
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