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Thanks for the response - we will check your scenario. It sounds reasonable to support this - therefore I am accepting this idea, however it can also be that this works already - I come back with results.
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For example, if we have a process which provides the following path when running command "ps -e -o pid -o jobname -o comm"
in lpar1:
/usr/lpp/IBM/v3r1/lpar1/python
in lpar2:
/usr/lpp/IBM/v3r1/lpar2/python
This would require us to have two different APL in the policy database to specify the difference but could it be possible to point towards symbolic links instead?
For example, using this symbolic link in the policy database:
/usr/lpp/IBM/Watson/python
and the symbolic link would point to the correct path from above depending on which system it is running in. (Which could be more easily updated when a new version is released rather than updating the policy database and submitting a build.)
Hi thanks for submitting this idea.
In order to understand your requirement it would be helpful if you could share a bit more about the scenario you try to accomplish.
If you create a symbolic link to (for example) a specific JVM version to use (and this might change over time) then you could use the name of the symbolic link in the "Filter" field instead of using it in the process/command path field?