Bug 694463

Summary:	[6.2 FEAT] snIPL support for z/VM 6
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.2	CC:	jjarvis, nobody+PNT0273897, notting, sbest, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	6.2
Hardware:	s390x
OS:	All
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Description IBM Bug Proxy 2011-04-07 13:11:43 UTC

1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [71248]
a. Name of Feature: [6.2 FEAT] snIPL support for z/VM 6
b. Feature Description
This feature offers socket-based remote system management of z/VM 6 guests with snipl and stonith.
snIPL offers command line support for remote system management of LPARs and z/VM guests. And it
offers a STONITH plugIn; thus participates in Linux HA solutions. The z/VM guest implementation is
based on an RPC interface connecting to the z/VM provided VSMSERVE server for systems management.
This interface is no longer available starting with z/VM 6. Instead a socket-based server
environment is offered by z/VM called SMAPI. With this line item a z/VM guest implementation based
on an AF_INET socket connected to a SMAPI-server is added to snIPL. This enables remote system
management of z/VM 6 guests by snipl command or stonith plugin lic_vps.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC zSeries BOE
Architectures: zSeries - 64 native,
Arch Specificity: purely arch specific code
Affects Kernel Modules: No
Delivery Mechanism: LDP Deliverable
Category: system management
Request Type: Package - Feature from Upstream
d. Upstream Acceptance: In Progress
Sponsor Priority P1
f. Severity: ship issue
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: ---
g. Component Version Target: ---

3. Business Case
Enable remote system management of z/VM 6 guests by snipl command or stonith plugin by adding the
new z/VM interface - to snIPL.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis, jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com

Technical contact(s):
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-04-07 13:23:51 UTC

Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2011-05-17 13:30:33 UTC

------- Comment From mgrf.com 2011-05-17 09:23 EDT-------
The code for this feature can only be attached when the agreements are signed

On May 2nd I sent the snIPL re-distribution agreements for review by Red Hat attorney - still awaiting feedback.

Comment 4 Suzanne Logcher 2011-06-01 16:37:20 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 633473 ***