Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-29 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
Mike, Thanks for sharing your views. I share your desire for that "big cluster manager". For now, we are still using a "load-balancer" type of failover where we have a frontend linux box that does IPVS (or BIGIP for web). Many other popular protocols like SMTP already have something else built

Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 11/25/06, Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mike, Can you share why you want the NGZ to know about the GZ? There is little technical reason that most people will need to know. However, due to a variety of reasons (integration with monitoring, asset management, some notion that knowi

Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-25 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
Hi Mike, Can you share why you want the NGZ to know about the GZ? The reason I ask is that we are already doing zones but we will be scaling up the effort quite tremendously and I want to get my bases covered. I currently use our network operations centre software to track which zone is which b

Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 11/24/06, Jeff Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: prakash wrote: > How to get global zone information from non-global zone, > any coomand or any file to get the information ? Part of the design of the security boundary around a zone is preventing an NGZ from getting information about its GZ.

Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
prakash wrote: How to get global zone information from non-global zone, any coomand or any file to get the information ? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org Hi Basically you would a

Re: [zones-discuss] How to get global zone information from non-global zone

2006-11-24 Thread Jeff Victor
prakash wrote: How to get global zone information from non-global zone, any coomand or any file to get the information ? Part of the design of the security boundary around a zone is preventing an NGZ from getting information about its GZ. However, as the GZ administrator you can place inform