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Linux on the Mainframe

ISBN: 0131014153
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 199

Authors: John Eilert, Maria Eisenhaendler, Dorothea Matthaeus, Ingolf Salm

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
• Trademarks
• Foreword: Linux in the Emerging On Demand World
• The future of e-business: e-business on demand
• The importance of open standards to an on demand business
• On demand, Open Source and Linux
• Linux and the on demand business
• Preface
• Terminology used in this book
• Disclaimer
• Acknowledgements
• Part 1: Linux on the Mainframe - an Introduction
• Chapter 1. Introducing Linux
• 1.1 Benefits of the Linux operating system
• 1.2 The role of the Open Source community
• 1.3 The role of distributions
• 1.4 Linux structure
• 1.5 Summary
• Chapter 2. Introducing the Mainframe
• 2.1 The mainframe s birth
• 2.2 General-purpose computer architecture
• 2.3 Distinguishing features of the mainframe
• 2.4 From real to virtual
• 2.5 Summary
• Chapter 3. Introducing Linux on the Mainframe
• 3.1 Why Linux fits the mainframe
• 3.2 What was done to fit Linux onto the mainframe
• 3.3 How Linux fits the mainframe
• 3.4 Six reasons to run Linux on the mainframe
• 3.5 Summary
• Part 2: Planning for Linux
• Chapter 4. Overview of What You Can Do with Linux on the Mainframe
• 4.1 Horizontal and vertical growth
• 4.2 ISPCompany and its new business application
• 4.3 StoreCompany and its business application
• 4.4 Summary
• Chapter 5. Sample Projects
• 5.1 Building a team
• 5.2 Choosing the right Linux project
• 5.3 Summary
• Chapter 6. Total Cost of Ownership: the Challenge
• 6.1 Total cost-of-ownership factors
• 6.2 The mainframe and the TCO equation
• 6.3 Linux and the TCO equation
• 6.4 ISPCompany: TCO considerations
• 6.5 StoreCompany: TCO considerations
• 6.6 Summary
• Part 3: Is Linux on the Mainframe for Me?
• Chapter 7. The Value of Virtualization
• 7.1 What is zVM?
• 7.2 How Linux can run on zVM
• 7.3 What does zVM provide?
• 7.4 What is logical partitioning?
• 7.5 Why run Linux on zVM?
• 7.6 Summary
• Chapter 8. Security Considerations
• 8.1 The role of security policy
• 8.2 Risk assessment
• 8.3 Before opening the doors: hardening
• 8.4 Opening the doors
• 8.5 Preventing attacks
• 8.6 Keeping up to date on security issues
• 8.7 Summary
• Chapter 9. Setting Up Linux on the Mainframe
• 9.1 Distribution considerations
• 9.2 Running Linux on the mainframe
• 9.3 Creating images
• 9.4 Purpose of Linux images
• 9.5 Setting up for secure and efficient IO
• 9.6 Summary
• Chapter 10. Communicating in a Virtual Environment
• 10.1 Communication methods under zVM
• 10.2 Scenario: networking in a virtual environment
• 10.3 Virtual failover solutions
• 10.4 Communicating with the outside world
• 10.5 Summary
• Chapter 11. Achieving Higher Availability
• 11.1 What is high availability?
• 11.2 The zSeries hardware availability
• 11.3 Redundancy and single points of failure
• 11.4 High availability for the ISPCompany example
• 11.5 High availability for the StoreCompany OaK example
• 11.6 A quick look at the future
• 11.7 Summary
• Part 4: Making the Most of Linux on the Mainframe
• Chapter 12. Systems Management
• 12.1 Controlling the cost of systems administration
• 12.2 Systems management disciplines
• 12.3 Policies
• 12.4 Procedures
• 12.5 Using tools
• 12.6 Using a framework
• 12.7 Summary
• Chapter 13. Availability Management
• 13.1 Availability policy
• 13.2 Health monitoring
• 13.3 Automation
• 13.4 Change management
• 13.5 Key factors to consider in availability
• 13.6 Summary
• Chapter 14. Data Management
• 14.1 Keeping data on the mainframe
• 14.2 Introduction to backup and restore
• 14.3 Quota
• 14.4 Data, policies, and tools
• 14.5 Database management
• 14.6 Performance tuning and capacity planning
• 14.7 Summary
• Chapter 15. Performance and Capacity Planning
• 15.1 Day-to-day performance
• 15.2 Relative capacity and capacity planning
• 15.3 Summary
• Chapter 16. System Administrator Tasks
• 16.1 Expanding the system administrator s role in your organization
• 16.2 Change management
• 16.3 Tasks that are unique to Linux on the mainframe
• 16.4 Tools policies
• 16.5 Becoming familiar with the mainframe
• 16.6 Summary
• Part 5: Running Applications
• Chapter 17. Deploying Linux Servers
• 17.1 Where can you find applications for Linux on the mainframe?
• 17.2 Simple server hardware consolidation
• 17.3 Summary
• Chapter 18. Porting Applications to Linux on the Mainframe
• 18.1 What you can gain by porting an application to Linux on the mainframe
• 18.2 Before you decide to port
• 18.3 What effort to expect
• 18.4 What you need
• 18.5 Where to get more information
• 18.6 Summary
• Chapter 19. Building Integrated Server Environments
• 19.1 Inter-image communications
• 19.2 Example for an integrated environment
• 19.3 Connectors to back-end systems
• 19.4 Consolidating a 3-tier environment
• 19.5 Enriching your mainframe environment with new applications
• 19.6 Summary
• Part 6: Reference
• Chapter 20. Linux-on-the-Mainframe Reference
• 20.1 Linux distributions for the mainframe
• 20.2 Overview of Linux directory structure
• 20.3 Exploiting mainframe processor architecture
• 20.4 Linux-on-the-mainframe device drivers
• Chapter 21. Mainframe Reference
• 21.1 The mainframe architecture
• 21.2 Mainframe registers
• 21.3 The program status word
• 21.4 Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
• Chapter 22. Debugging and Dump Analysis
• 22.1 What information you need
• 22.2 Debugging under zVM
• 22.3 General Linux debugging facilities
• 22.4 Linux kernel debugging tools
• 22.5 Linux system dump tools
• Chapter 23. Security Reference
• 23.1 Security certification
• 23.2 General security considerations
• 23.3 zVM tools
• Chapter 24. Communications Reference
• 24.1 zSeries virtual connections
• 24.2 An example of server consolidation based on Linux
• Chapter 25. Systems Management Tools
• 25.1 Availability management tools
• 25.2 Data management tools
• 25.3 Security management tools
• 25.4 Performance and capacity planning tools
• 25.5 System administrator tools
• 25.6 Tools Web sites
• Chapter 26. Performance Reference
• 26.1 Tuning Linux guests under VM
• 26.2 When to use kernel patches
• 26.3 Performance tools
• Chapter 27. Examples for Applications
• Part 7: Appendices
• Appendix A. ISPCompany
• A.1 Corporate profile of ISPCompany
• A.2 Offerings
• A.3 Description of environment
• A.4 Example new client
• Appendix B. StoreCompany
• B.1 Corporate profile of StoreCompany
• B.2 Description of environment
• B.3 Programming model and middleware platform
• B.4 Project 1: Firewall and proxy server
• B.5 Project 2: Web application server
• B.6 Project 3: OaK project
• Glossary
• Further Reading
• Bibliography
• Books
• IBM Redbooks
• IBM articles and papers
• Other IBM publications
• Other articles and papers