RE: ITM and AIX WPARs

During ITM 623 and ITM 630, the KPX attributes are mostly being merged 
into the Unix OS Agent. I think there are some exceptions. I think it is 
almost done at current levels.

The other AIX Premium agents remain - VIOS and HMC??

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From:   "Mike Elleby 3.0" <[email protected]>
To:     "'Discussion list for Tivoli product and Tivoli Ready products.'" 
<[email protected]>, 
Date:   07/02/2013 10:14 AM
Subject:        RE: [TME10] ITM and AIX WPARs
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Hey Jon-
 
Many thanx for the information.  We are actually using KPX, but I had 
heard a rumor that it was being merged into the KUX agent?  So I just 
wanted to get some insight on it before I started digging.
 
Thanx again.
 
Mike-
 
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mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin, Jon
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:01 PM
To: Discussion list for Tivoli product and Tivoli Ready products.
Subject: RE: [TME10] ITM and AIX WPARs
 
Mike,
 
Not had that much hands-on time inside AIX WPAR implementations, but as I 
remember (and may well be wrong), WPARs are 'workload partitions' inside 
LPARS which are 'logical partitions'. The true OS 'machine' is the LPAR, 
and the WPAR is a collection of configuration and process management 
creating a pseudo-virtual set of resources for use, not a true virtual 
machine. In that respect, there may well be sharing of code, log files and 
the like from a common TEMA directory, which wouldn't work well. 
 
Whether you're planning to use the KPX agent (AIX Premium) or in the more 
recent levels where KPX is converging into KUX, I seem to remember many of 
the WPAR-related attribute groups have the WPAR name as an attribute. From 
that, a single TEMA to manage them all in an LPAR makes sense. You can use 
WPAR attributes to scope situations down to the rows that are the 
resources for a give WPAR. The recent KUX OS Agent User's Guide should be 
your guide. Note that at some levels during the convergence there were 
issues with non-root agent installations not having access to all the 
underlying data. It's documented in the User's Guide. 
 
Have fun with that. 
 
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From: Mike Elleby 3.0 [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:24 AM
To: 'Discussion list for Tivoli product and Tivoli Ready products.'
Subject: [TME10] ITM and AIX WPARs
Hey John A.-
 
If you have your ears on.  I'm currently working on an effort where WPARs 
(AIX) are intending to be used in the environment, and there is a 
perception that TEMAs can't run on a local WPAR, that they can only run in 
the Global, not similar to Solaris Global/Local Zones, where I can run a 
TEMA in either zone.  They haven't started testing yet, but I wanted to be 
proactive and get some information on this item.
 
Your thoughts?
 
Thanx in advance.
 
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