On Wednesday, 02/11/2009 at 02:32 EST, Gary Detro/Dallas/i...@ibmus wrote: > I am trying to use zLinux to run a rexx program on another machine in my z/VM > 5.4 system. I am thinking about using SETSECUSER and the CP SEND commands to > be executed from HCP utility in a zLinux guest. Has anyone done anything in > this environment. What is behind this question is that we use SSH to have > zLinux execute scripts that get kicked off from a web-browser as a form of > automation.
IMO, Don't do that. Instead, HCP MSG OPSMGR DO.SOMETHING. Then user OPSMGR can authorize the request and kick off the operation in another virtual machine or run it itself. OPSMGR may well use SET SECUSER and CP SEND to do its job, but that's an implementation detail. If the Linux guest is being watched by OPSMGR anyway, you can just write "**** HELP ME, OBI WAN. DO SOMETHING ***" to the console and let events unfold. If the script running in Linux needs the results of the operation, then you need to look at REXEC. (If you can connect to VM TCP/IP via Guest LAN, traffic doesn't flow over the wire and the firewall block on rexec can stay in place.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
