On Wednesday, 02/28/2018 at 06:33 GMT, Marcy Cortes <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you kevan for the info! > > So might I suggest a post rpm script in the s390x rpm that says warns the > customer that default settings should be examined for a z/VM environment. If > we had that info as we piloted the rpm install on the few "lab" servers we > have, we might have been able to stop some pain which included backouts and > dragging in IBM VM high level peoples :) (thanks again Romney for ferreting > out the solution) and weeks of delay in deployment. > > In large shops, something like BigFix gets deployed by a team, usually > distributed oriented that has to support both Windows and *ix and they pass off > the "install" test to the various platform people to ensure the install > works. Those teams say "yea, it installed" and really are not expecting to be > looking for things like excessive CPU use in aggregate. And it then gets > pushed to tens of thousands of devices... If the rpm had said something, we, > being my team as platform signoffers, would have asked that they investigate > further.
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