Re: Interface control check message in /var/log/messages

2011-11-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
Are you in an LPAR or under z/VM? You had an i/o fail. It retried and was likely successful (or you'd be having more pain). You can have your HW vendor investigate. If you are under z/VM then there's probably some messages in the operator console as well. And EREP records. Under an LPAR, wel

Re: Adding Standby Storage

2011-11-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
Yes, see this presentation for a good overview of how to do that. http://share.confex.com/share/117/webprogram/Handout/Session9878/SHAREOrlando_Dynamic_Features_of_Linux_on_Systemz.pdf Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or

Re: offtopic: Library QUANTUM Scalar i6000 z/linux

2011-11-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, lin_tape is from IBM for IBM hw. A quick look at Quantum's website says to contact Quantum support for drivers. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, cop

Re: mvsdasd

2011-11-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
Google mvsdasd and Linux-390 There has been discussion here. Yes, consensus was it could be scary. Your z/OS security folks will not like it (not auditable). http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-390@vm.marist.edu/msg59728.html Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged infor

Re: Time Change Problems 11.06.2011 zSeries

2011-11-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
z196? I know we had some microcode fix that got put on in Sept that we were tolf had to be on before the time change. Marcy. Sent from my BlackBerry. - Original Message - From: Shockley, Gerard C [mailto:gsh...@bu.edu] Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 07:16 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.maris

Re: Accessing Old Linux System After DASD Move

2011-11-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
You are probably going to have to get the media out and install enough on free DASD to have something to boot so you can get in, mount and edit. It's not going to be all that fun. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Craig Pac

Re: OCFS2 replacement for SLES ?

2011-11-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
RH doesn't support GFS2 on z HW from what I was told. Brad? Is that still true? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:12 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OCFS2 r

Re: z/VM Switch performance

2011-10-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
Offer, I do get the erratic pings too. Not as high as 200, but some 50s. It was reported to me a few weeks ago by one of our more sophisticated users that traceroute occasionally fails over the same vswitch. Run it like 20 times 1 right after another to recreate or use the -q option with someth

Re: SLES 10 SP2 x DASD-FICON

2011-10-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
SLES 10 SP2 is out of support. Try SP4 or better yet, SLES 11. But yes, it can use FICON dasd. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Helio Mario Neves Pimentel de Oliveira Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:42 PM To: LINUX-390@v

Re: Install tape driver error on zlinux

2011-10-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
We ran it for a while on SLES 10. There was a "tainted" message there too at boot time, but no special action like SLES 11 seems to require. We needed it to drive an IBM ATL. There is no native Linux support for that. Just know that if you do have a problem and Novell is providing your support

Re: 500 Internal Server Error with smt-mirror

2011-10-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Did you recently patch perl-libwww-perl? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 11:52 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] 500 Internal Server Error w

Re: Fw: z/Linux MQ Guest hsi0 Config Problem

2011-09-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Mark kindly wrote: > If they have sysconfig-0.50.9-13.62.67.1 or later installed, then this is > likely not the same problem. They don't. It was in his attachment. Sounds like some updating is in order. (and maybe a service contract with Novell :) Marcy

Re: Found duplicate PV in Guest Linux SUSE 10

2011-09-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
Ochoa Avila 2011/9/6 Marcy Cortes > Dusting off old brain cells, but we saw one case where we had duplicate > pv's happen that I am 100% sure was not our fault. > > I ended up using the command to alter the uuid and make it all happy. > > SP2 is old - you are missing a lot o

Re: Found duplicate PV in Guest Linux SUSE 10

2011-09-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
Dusting off old brain cells, but we saw one case where we had duplicate pv's happen that I am 100% sure was not our fault. I ended up using the command to alter the uuid and make it all happy. SP2 is old - you are missing a lot of maintenance, probably fixes. Get on SP4. Marcy -Origi

Re: Migrating UNIX application to z/Linux

2011-09-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, some general considerations I know of are: 1. J2EE apps are usually ok. Unless they exploit something in Sun Java that is different in IBM Java. We've not had issues, but some college I know has not been that lucky. If they've written the java program themselves, changes may not be tha

Re: Regina on SLES 11 SP 1

2011-08-31 Thread Marcy Cortes
> That might be worth considering for Linux Just never ever do it to root. :) Marcy . -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lionel Dyck Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:14 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Reg

Re: patching frequency

2011-08-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
I should explain further. There is a group that evaluates everything put out by the support providers. They categorize them into criticial, urgent, and standard. There is an install time frame for each level of severity. For all intents and purposes, it usually ends up monthly here. Marcy

Re: patching frequency

2011-08-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
Monthly. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Levy, Alan Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:22 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] patching frequency How often do you patch your linux servers. I have been patching

Re: Last date for SLES 10 SP 3 patches from Novell

2011-08-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Last date for SLES 10 SP 3 patches from Novell >>> On 8/17/2011 at 07:30 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: > So no rounding to the end of the month, huh :) > > I think next time we'll negotiate better! Throw enough cash at us, and lots

Re: Last date for SLES 10 SP 3 patches from Novell

2011-08-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
t: Re: [LINUX-390] Last date for SLES 10 SP 3 patches from Novell Hello Marcy, >>> On 8/17/2011 at 12:19 PM, in message , Marcy Cortes wrote: > Is there a published date somewhere? Not exactly but it is relatively easy to figure out. http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/ Type "

Last date for SLES 10 SP 3 patches from Novell

2011-08-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is there a published date somewhere? I see a 6 months after SP4 reference, but I need an exact date. Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the mess

Re: DB2 Performance Questions

2011-08-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
Right, you can't turn it off for ECKD :( (boo hiss) Because of this, figuring out the right amount of memory is all trial and error (at least as far as we've found). Do you have enough? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Malc

Re: Clustered file systems

2011-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
du] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:21 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Clustered file systems >>> On 7/13/2011 at 03:49 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21433474 That page refe

Re: Clustered file systems

2011-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
x27;t OCFS2 work for MQ, Marcy? On 07/13/2011 02:31 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: >> OCFS2 as shipped with SLES11 SP1 is such a file system. It's what SLE HAE >> is built on and works fine. > Won't work for MQ and what should RH users use? (not that I expect *you* to

Re: Clustered file systems

2011-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks Aaron. Is it an accepted requirement? Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin

Re: Clustered file systems

2011-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
> OCFS2 as shipped with SLES11 SP1 is such a file system. It's what SLE HAE is > built on and works fine. Won't work for MQ and what should RH users use? (not that I expect *you* to answer that one :) Marcy -- For LINUX-390

Clustered file systems

2011-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Will we ever have a posix compliant clustered file system for Linux on z? Is anyone else finding apps that need them and therefore can't be hosted on z? Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

Re: SLES11 Updates

2011-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
We use SMT for both sles 10 and 11. I did have to get a fix for SMT to work with our proxy server. That's likely already been included though so maybe its not your timeout problem. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Peter E. A

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
Auditors just audit against the rules + the approved exceptions documented in security plans. Just get an approved exception that documents the controls in place to prevent bad things from happening - voila! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.maris

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
One page must be the minimum. The memory fairies recently visited here so we have 6 systems that are undercommitted for memory at the moment. Each of them has exactly 1 page in use. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bill H

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
The question is why do you need to know? If you are running out of space, add more. If you can't, you'll have to shut virtual machines down. Start with the largest ones. BTW, don't let your paging space get more than 50% full or performance goes down the toilet. Marcy -Original Message-

Re: LVM on CKD?

2011-06-08 Thread Marcy Cortes
Craig, lots of us are. After doing the dasdfmt and fdasd, follow the steps here or use Yast http://www.linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/lvm.html Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Craig Collins Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 1:00 PM To

Re: z/Linux Oracle question

2011-05-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
The smallest Linux distributed server you can buy here is 35G. So I think we'd better treat it as noise or give the wrong impression about the platform :) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for t

Re: z/Linux Oracle question

2011-05-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
It doesn't sound unreasonable to me. Typically they ask for 3-4x the amount of data. So testing a 7G of actual data would require 21-28G usually. You've got log, archive, temp, backup, etc. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the address

Re: SLES 11 /etc/pam.d/su

2011-04-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
Never mind. I think it was only on certain servers here. I'll have to go find the culprit. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:45 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINU

Re: Largest DASD Volume to Use with RHEL 5.3 under z/VM 6.1

2011-04-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
Oh, it's not so bad. It's only about 22 mod 54 per Terabyte. Once it is out there and done (scripts are your friend) there's little management to it. We have one server with > than 110 mod 54. What are you going to put on it Kyle? That may indicate whether the performance will work for you w/o

SLES 11 /etc/pam.d/su

2011-04-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
"su userid" from root was prompting for a password .. "su - userid" was not. Turns out /etc/pam.d/su needs a auth sufficient pam_rootok.so In order to prevent that prompt. Any ideas why this changed between SLES 10 and 11? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privilege

Re: WebSphere Java dropping

2011-04-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
Anything on the guests console? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Dean, David (I/S) Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 1:41 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] WebSphere Java dropping Not that I can find, but ge

Re: New User Linux on z10 question

2011-04-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
Nobody eats just one. Find another one. Run VM. :) Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 6:58 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] New User Linux on z10 question

Re: VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux

2011-03-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
rch 29, 2011 9:12 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux On Tuesday, 03/29/2011 at 11:09 EDT, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Alan wrote: That's kind of odd. If the VSWITCH controllers have locked memory > I don't know why a VSWITCH

Re: VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux

2011-03-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:39 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux Bingo! Thank you Paul! The .xxx way on the bond device works! The other way with ifcfg-vlanxxx doesn&#x

Re: VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux

2011-03-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
ark Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:18 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux On Tuesday, 03/29/2011 at 01:24 EDT, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Well, harrumph indeed. Would be nice if hyperswapping didn't require a > non-vswitch&#

Re: VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux

2011-03-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
3/29/2011 at 12:01 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: > I have vlan tagging working > And channel bonding working. > But I need to make them both work together. > > Do you tag each of the interfaces or tag the bond device? Without actually researching this, my first reaction

Re: VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux

2011-03-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
--- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:23 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux On Tuesday, 03/29/2011 at 12:07 EDT, Marcy Cortes wrote: > (and n

VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux

2011-03-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
I have vlan tagging working And channel bonding working. But I need to make them both work together. Do you tag each of the interfaces or tag the bond device? (and no, don't say use a vswitch - believe me - I'd love to, but not allowed for this !) Marcy This message may contain confidentia

Re: Where is kernel loaded in memory?

2011-03-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
When you have some memory intensive night time activities, like say scanning checks in cron jobs, or heavy batch stuff, these things happen. We added more memory :(, although lowering the heap size did help some. Anyway you can prime the pump (script to touch your pages in a cron job?)? Marcy

Re: Where is kernel loaded in memory?

2011-03-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
Mark, is this WAS? Is it possible it involves the heap? (BTDT :) Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Wheeler Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:56 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Where is kernel loa

Re: Cloning question for zLinux

2011-03-09 Thread Marcy Cortes
None of the commands you've given us here would add anything onto /dasdc How was it supposed to have gotten populated with files? Marcy Cortes Operating Systems Engineer, z/VM and Linux on System z Enterprise Hosting Services, Mainframe/Midrange Services Wells Fargo Bank | 201 Third S

Re: Cloning question for zLinux

2011-03-09 Thread Marcy Cortes
Linking the same disk r/w twice will likely destroy the disk. Link it RR instead. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Detro Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:03 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] Cloning

Re: High Availability zLinux IP address

2011-03-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
We use F5 BigIP load balancers to do this kind of thing. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Wawiorko Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:05 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] High Availability zLinux IP address

Re: PAM to authenticate using zVM userid/password

2011-02-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, being devil's advocate here... Why is it a cool thing to do? Doesn't it make more sense to use whatever every other Linux/unix box in your shop is using?All those other people may get cranky if you make them get a CMS id to login to Linux or to use a web app. Unless you have no Linux

Re: crypto with sshd

2011-02-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
cpu usage.. with or without, on large transfer cpu usage is practicaly the same ... 2011/2/14 Rogério Soares > maybe i made some confusion here... > > i' can't get any call to libica, that is why a guess that is not working > ... :-/ > > > > On Mon, Feb

Re: crypto with sshd

2011-02-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Ok, good that works. And you should seen some incrementing in all those zero's down at the bottom of /proc/drivers/z90crypt, correct? And you don't see any on SSH leading you to believe its not working for ssh? Marcy Cortes Operating Systems Engineer, z/VM and Linux on System z

Re: crypto with sshd

2011-02-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
, February 14, 2011 1:14 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] crypto with sshd and yes, i'm running under vm 6.1. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > I'm pretty sure SLES 10 SP3's openssh is already built correctly and you > should not have to

Re: crypto with sshd

2011-02-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Rogério Soares Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:14 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] crypto with sshd and yes, i'm running under vm 6.1. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > I'm pretty sure SLES 10 SP3's openssh is already built correctl

Re: crypto with sshd

2011-02-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
I'm pretty sure SLES 10 SP3's openssh is already built correctly and you should not have to rebuild it. What do you get when you cat /proc/drivers/z90crypt (please post) Are you running under VM? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Beh

Re: Z10 vs x86 or Sparc

2011-02-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
David answered that very well. It's a question of what problem you are trying to solve! One can say a Ferrari is faster than a semi truck. But if you job is to move 80 refrigerators across country, one probably shouldn't choose the Ferrari! If you are hosting an Oracle farm, a z box is a great

Re: SLES 11 strange behavior network

2011-02-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
Channel bonding would be another. But even then, I wouldn't pick something that is in CP's range to assign. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:46 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu

Re: LVM, PAVs, and cloning

2011-02-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
pvcreate/pvchange sticks them on there. You can choose your own too or change one. Might be useful if you've cloned. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:48 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.ma

Re: LVM, PAVs, and cloning

2011-02-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
1. Haven't done that due to other i/o things we got going on, but have the HW ready to try it 2. ok 3. On the same server or to a different server? We clone LVM's all the time to new servers. What do you mean by recover? 4. I would think it would be 5. We do that on bunches of 54s too. We ha

Re: Multicast use on a Linux server

2011-01-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
I tried the netstat from tcpmaint and got DTCNET338E * MAC address is not in the ARP table. Also tried the qetharp and got Unsuccessful: Operation not permitted Suspect that it doesn't work on a L2 vswitch... But we've tracked them all dow

Re: Multicast use on a Linux server

2011-01-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks Scott, Philip, and Alan, That gives me enough info. Curious though how to map the mac addr to the IP from Linux itself? They don't show up in arp -n . Would one check at the router? cdztv17142:~ # netstat -gn(-n being more needed to avoid the dummy dns

Multicast use on a Linux server

2011-01-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
Hello, General Linux question here... Is there a way to tell all the multicast addresses are particular server might be using? Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists..

Re: Useful feature in zypper

2011-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
; On 1/14/2011 at 04:49 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: > Really really good stuff. > You have no idea what patching has become in this day and age Don't bet on it. :( Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / sig

Re: Useful feature in zypper

2011-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Really really good stuff. You have no idea what patching has become in this day and age and stuff like this is much needed. Thanks for sharing! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:45 A

Re: Advice on setting up minidisks

2011-01-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Because we were approaching running out of 64K addresses, we're a mainly all mod 27 and 54. 3's are only used for paging basically. 9's for z/VM stuff and some Linux stuff. The issue with larger disks can be queuing on a UCB and that's what PAV solves. We just continue to monitor things to se

Re: Question regarding new SLES Deployment Guide Draft

2011-01-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
And if you find the DUD (who wants a DUD anyway) - let us know how it goes! We would like a nice easy upgrade path instead of making new servers. (yeah, I know, there was one before but seem to make more of a mess than it was worth). Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390

WAS ND and multicast

2011-01-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
More of a general WAS question that Linux-390, but you all may know! It appears that every server with a WAS ND node agent running on it uses a multicast address of 232.133.104.73. Apparently that is IBM's default. Is that required or something that can be turned off? I kind of suspect maybe

Re: WebSphere CPU attack

2011-01-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Do you have a good Java monitoring tool? Like Introscope? You need to figure out what is taking your CPU time within the java process and velocity won't do that for you. Are these WAS instances on the server the same app? Or are you running multiple apps on the server? I suspect you might b

Re: Shared filesystem in redhat

2010-12-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
Agblad, Do you configure both MQ server names in your app server? Or do you move host names to the new server? Or use VIP or something? Do you have anything in place to prevent write links from both servers? Are they on the same VM system? Just curious, we have a MQ MI implementation in pro

Re: Red Hat 6 qeth device driver failed to recover

2010-12-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Don't you have to bring online the c01 and c02 devices too chccwdev -e 0.0.0c00-0.0.0c02 What does lsqeth tell you? vmcp q v osa ? Marcy Cortes Operating Systems Engineer, z/VM and Linux on System z Enterprise Hosting Services, Mainframe/Midrange Services Wells Fargo Bank

Re: Oracle client problem on SLES 10

2010-12-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
That was our first thoughts and we have all the ones listed in here. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/relnotes.102/b25399.pdf compat-libstdc++ doesn't seem to exist anymore and now is likely covered by libstdc++33 - we think. Marcy Cortes Operating Systems Engineer, z/V

Oracle client problem on SLES 10

2010-12-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
is complaining about not having the needed algorithms installed? Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this mes

Re: Shared filesystem in redhat

2010-12-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
You have NFS and OCFS2 (http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101626 Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of caleb ong Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 7:46 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing error on Red Hat Linux

2010-12-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, that microcode fun was ours and what Linux got out of that was a "low address protection" error. This might be a clue: "Out of memory and no killable processes error" Do you need more memory? Got a memory leak?? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linu

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
In my SHARE user experiences presentation I usually warn people against even answering that question. Stephen has a good approach to an answer. My boss thinks I'm a smart xxx when I turn it around and ask him "How many rocks can you carry?" Obviously, not all rocks are created equally. I've ha

Re: Defining channel bonding of OSA adapters with Yast

2010-11-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
We have it installed on Linux servers that can't use vswitch (xdr hyperswap, don't ask). It's been a while, but I just followed the setup in the Networking with Linux on System z presentation. Sles 10 sp 3 here. Sorry! No yast for me for this! Marcy This message may contain confidential

VMware Shifts Pricing Strategy

2010-09-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
Crossposted to IBMVM and LINUX-390... news is a bit old but... Interesting how they twisted what sounds like a way to generate more revenue into a we want to keep you from doing something really stupid like putting too many virtual machines on one box proposition. VMware Shifts Pricing Strateg

Re: Yast not working under SLES 10 SP2

2010-09-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Run the command "ldconfig" and see if it goes away. Marcy. Sent from my BlackBerry. - Original Message - From: Linux on 390 Port To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Sent: Thu Sep 23 23:25:54 2010 Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Yast not working under SLES 10 SP2 Dear Mike, This could indeed be th

Re: Good sources of information for WAS on Z sizing?

2010-09-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
The other thing you *have* to have to run well is a good java monitor - CA Wily Introscope is one. There are others. IBM has Tivoli something or other :) -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Agblad Tore Sent: Friday, September 17,

Re: Crypto on SLES 11 SP1 - ssl engine ibmca

2010-09-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 8:46 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Crypto on SLES 11 SP1 - ssl engine ibmca >>> On 9/3/2010 at 09:59 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: &

Crypto on SLES 11 SP1 - ssl engine ibmca

2010-09-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
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Re: How to convince others. Was: Re: mono keep guest active - ban the blips.

2010-08-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
It'd be even cooler if your monitor could learn a virtual machines "normal" or "expected" activity pattern by time of day / day of week and the signal things out of the ordinary. Like the batch activity that was supposed to have been running but took an unexpected low address protection excepti

Re: kernel: page allocation failure recommendations

2010-08-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
Decrease to 0 is what I've been advocating under VM. Keeps linux from doing preemptive moves to swap. Just let VM see the page is being not used and he will page it out. Marcy. Sent from my BlackBerry. - Original Message - From: Linux on 390 Port To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Sent: T

Re: NFS and AutoFS - a how to question

2010-08-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
ECKD shop here... Nothing wrong with that - Where are your 2 lpars? Why can't they share? If you do not have physical access to both, you will need to replicate it over a network. What that network is depends... You can send it over an IP with DRBD. You can replicate it with HW with PPRC. I do

Re: DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
Mark wrote: >That depends on how much you care about newer versions being certified >sometime within your life time. Very good point. That's a concern too. Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
Klaus wrote: "This is a DB2 limitiation which others, e.g. Oracle on zLinux, do not have." Yes. What is up with that IBM? Does this make Oracle a better fit on Linux on z than DB2? Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
sadmin 20 0 528m 242m 22m S0 3.0 1:55.78 java On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > WAS calls non-heap memory "native". > That's what you seem to be using up. > Look at this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21373312 >

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
WAS calls non-heap memory "native". That's what you seem to be using up. Look at this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21373312 And if these things don't help, open a PMR with WAS support. Did it stabilize at 18G? The panic_on_oom is a good idea - you can then get a dump (set up a

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
Jul 26, 2010 4:59 PM, "Marcy Cortes" wrote: > Thanks for that clarification! > > > Marcy > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:21 PM > To: LINUX-390@vm.mari

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
? >>> On 7/26/2010 at 05:05 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: > I was going to suggest a dump and a ticket to Novell, but it looks like you > aren't SP1, and so are unsupported. SLES11 GA is fully supported until 6 months after SP1 went GA. Even after that, NTS supports th

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
6GB of mem on a windows box.. We have 28 JVMs and sizes are set to 50/256. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Marcy Cortes < marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > First of all, you've run out of memory on that server (Swap: 35764956k > total, 35764956k used,) > It ate all of

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
First of all, you've run out of memory on that server (Swap: 35764956k total, 35764956k used,) It ate all of the 10G and all of the 35G of swap. How many JVM's are running and what are their min/max heap sizes? Marcy “This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If y

Re: DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
After reading some more, it turns out you cannot do direct i/o on linux for z if you are using ECKD dasd, only FCP. Which I guess is why the default is off on this platform but not on Intel. Is there a way to limit the amount of memory used for page cache? Marcy "This message may contain confi

DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
>From the DB2 9.5 doc Prior to Version 9.5, the keyword FILE SYSTEM CACHING was implied if neither NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING nor FILE SYSTEM CACHING was specified. With Version 9.5, if neither keyword is specified, the default, NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING, is used. This change affects only newly create

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Ed, I already submitted one for this, particulary that it is pretty hard to know what you have to put in the directory to get it to be an IFL in a mixed mode box. It was accepted. Not sure if more will help, but FWIW... Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged informa

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
sday, July 22, 2010 3:40 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] IBM zEnterprise System announced??? >>> On 7/22/2010 at 06:19 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: > Sounds like it will be talking over that private IP network rather than some > sort of CP c

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
Alan wrote: - Politics. A way different definition of "turf". "When is Distributed not Distributed? When it's part of zEnterprise." What's with the French accent Alan? I thought Altmark was German or Danish or something? But "zee Enterprise" sounds a lot better than "zed Enterprise" for sur

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
. Thank you for your cooperation." -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 2:48 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] IBM zEnterprise System announced??? >>> On 7/22/2

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
ny information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes

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