Useful add-ons: snIPL (simple network IPL)

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for use with "June 2003 stream".
snipl-0.1.0.tar.gz MD5 recommended (2003-07-25)
snIPL (simple network IPL) for STONITH (Linux Image Control - Virtual Power Switch) is a plugin for the heartbeat-stonith "framework".
STONITH (Shoot The Other Node In The Head) provides an extensible interface for remotely powering down a node in a cluster. The used STONITH implementation is part of the Heartbeat framework of the High Availability Project (http://linux-ha.org).
http://linux-ha.org/stonith.html gives a general description of the STONITH technique. The latest STONITH release can be downloaded from http://linux-ha.org/download.
snIPL for Stonith supports the remote image operations activate, deactivate, and reset, exploiting basic S/390/z800/z900/z990 Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element (SE) functions for Linux running in an LPAR and of basic z/VM 4.4 System Management Functions for Linux running under control of z/VM. The actual implementation of stonith may limit the functionality of all PowerSwitches to reset.
Note: This version of snIPL, called snIPL for stonith, is different to an earlier experimental interactive tool snIPL (simple network IPL) experimental.
Requirements:
• to compile and make use of the STONITH plugin lic_vps, package heartbeat
has to be downloaded from http://linux-ha.org/download and installed.
• to compile and run the snIPL-for-Stonith plugin for LPARs running Linux on zSeries, the appropriate (31 or 64-bit) Linux on zSeries version of the hwmcaapi library is required.
  snIPL-for-Stonith has been tested with the HMC hwmcaapi library version 1.8.0 and Linux on zSeries ("June 2003 stream").
• snIPL-for-Stonith type LPAR also requires the pthreads package.
• to compile and run the snIPL-for-Stonith plugin for VM images running Linux for S/390 or zSeries, the RPC protocol specification DSMVSMA.X has to be copied to the Linux system running snIPL (usually into /usr/share/dmsvsma).
Please read the README of snIPL enclosed in the tarball for further information and restrictions.