Re: [IBMiOSS] OPS Version Information

I have definitely thought of using ARE and was then stopped by issues in
downloading it from ESS**.

** Also known as the blackhole of time waste for things I've paid for that
should be easily obtainable.

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The idea of using ARE (now called Administration Runtime Expert) - this
can be tailored, I believe, to check existence and lots of other stuff, and
then report changes that have occurred.

Maybe useful here?

Cheers
Vern


On 10/19/2016 10:55 AM, Kevin Adler wrote:

Yes, CHKPRDOPT will read that file and verify all the contents are there
and that they are owned by QSYS. Since the manifest file does not contain
information about permissions; whether it should be a file, directory, or
symlink; or maintain a checksum; none of those things can be checked by
CHKPRDOPT.

I'm not sure what you mean by checking for "new" files, but it's probably
not going to be very useful unless you take in to account the entirety of
the OPS manifest files.


"OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 10/19/2016
08:02:15 AM:

From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>

To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10/19/2016 08:21 AM
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] OPS Version Information
Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Very cool. I think "what is my current state?" tools for PASE are going

to

be very valuable in the near future.

Your script gave me an idea based on some work Tony Cairns did with
ibmichroot. Basically there is a new way of generating(n1)
chroot_xxxxx.lst files by using the PTF info files (.qptfinf) and a

python

script(n2). This was done so all the necessary symlinks would be
automatically created and not based on my or Tony's recollection(n3).

I am thinking the .qptfinf files could also be used to do a health check

to

make sure nothing has "stained" the IBM directory (i.e.
/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/OPS/...). We do have command CHKPRDOPT but it
doesn't appear to go as deep as I'd like (i.e. checking for *new* files,
permissions, modified files, etc).

n1 - Look for chroot_gen_xxxx.lst files at this URL:
https://bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmichroot/src/master/chroot/
n2 -

https://bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmichroot/src/master/chroot/ge

n_chroot_OPS_lst

n3 -

https://bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmichroot/src/master/chroot/
chroot_gen_OPS_Python3.4.lst
(see :ln_rel section)


Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Kevin Adler <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think Pete asked for this a while back, maybe others as well. I've

whipped up some scripts to grab the version and PTF level for all the

OPS

stuff you have installed: /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/OPS/tools/bin/opsver

You can see it in action here:
https://asciinema.org/a/c9j7tl5c5yplnlm7m4a1lgqgz

PTFs will be released soon, probably later this week or next depending

on

how busy ZendCon is.

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