On Friday 05 October 2007 14:08, Robert J Brenneman wrote: >This is basically how IBM Director interoperates with a z/VM system - It >uses a Linux guest residing on VM as a proxy to implement all the CIM calls.
Yeah, that's what Mainstar's Provisioning Expert for Linux on z/VM does too, but there's currently some limitations on what you can do that way, especially if you want to support older versions of z/VM. As more functionality gets implemented in the Systems Management API , this will get easier. Since Jay posted a link to IBM's product, here's a link to Mainstar's: http://www.mainstar.com/products/provisioningexpert I think Kevin's idea is interesting, and he has a good list of requirements there. As a Linux guy, I'd *much* prefer using Linux as a management interface than CMS. But, as Alan points out, Linux is a heavyweight compared to CMS. You can run CMS in a 10MB guest. You can do that with Linux too, but you'd need to configure an embedded-style kernel. Actually, that could work: a tiny Linux with some core admin tools in a NSS, the ability to mount CMS minidisk read-write, and do any CP command. Then you could just IPL LINUX instead of IPL CMS. Of course, you still have the problem of all the layers of admin tools that have been built on top of CMS. Are you going to re-implement them all on Linux? - MacK. ----- Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
