June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
The mainframe environment offers a number of opportunities to the system administrator for becoming more efficient in dealing with numerous Linux images, thus lowering operational costs.
In a Linux-on-the-mainframe environment, the system administrator might have to manage hundreds of Linux images. One way of making this multitude manageable is to curb the variety by using a small number of standard images, as ISPCompany does. The aim is to cover most needs with these standard images and have as few as possible unique images for special purposes. While standard images also can be used in distributed server farms, they are particularly advantageous in a Linux-on-the-mainframe ...