Practical CSM: day 1

[sawyl]

After a hour or so of wrangling to get the network going, we spent the day doing a handful of rather less than thrilling CSM exercises in an extremely stuffy conference room. I'm not as down on the training as the rest of the gang seemed to be, although having spent quite some time playing with CSM, I didn't find it greatly stretching.

The most interesting part of the day involved looking at monitors and RSCT, which IBM, rather annoyingly, keep claiming is the best way to monitor a system despite being unable to produce any evidence beyond a mumbled comment about using dedicated kernel APIs. By which they mean system calls, rather than some undocumented magic deep in the AIX kernel...