Hello list,
One way to automate operations (aka do Private Cloud) is to use z/VM's
SMAPI. There are two ways to call 'SMAPIs' from Linux that I know of:
1) The bash smaclient from Sine Nomine (thanks to Leland, et al)
2) The C compiled smcli originating from IBM (thanks to Chuck, Thang,
Emily, et al)
Both are large and helpful pieces of code. However, neither are 'supported'
to my knowledge, but smcli seems to be somewhat 'more supported' in that
I've seen updates to it recently.
We've gotten errors on smaclient of the form "Unable to bind: 98" which
seems to lose connectivity to SMAPI when the CPU utilization is 'high'.
So I'm looking into switching to smcli. It works fine when I run as root,
but everybody knows That's Bad so I try as a non-root and get the error:
# *smcli Image_Query_DM -T VMENG004*
ERROR: File stat error. Errno: 13
ERROR: Unable to determine SMAPI level.
Error number 13 seems to be a generic UNIX/Linux error for "not
authorized". Does anyone know which files/directories are in question? I
was hoping it would be easy enough to chown/chmod some files or
directories. Or does anyone know how to use smcli as non-root?
Thanks.
--
-Mike MacIsaac
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