AIX ldap configuration

This post will describe the installation and configuration of the user’s authentication with LDAP on AIX using IBM directory server client software.

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Aix: yum Installation

This post will describe the installation of yum on AIX and some problems you can have when installing it on systems which have rpms from other sources already installed.

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chef kitchen wpar

In this post, I will show how to test a CHEF recipe with kitchen-wpar. I will also use the AIX cookbook to make more advanced recipes.

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Ansible on AIX

It’s a short introduction on what it’s possible to do with Ansible on AIX. Ansible is agentless so requirements are pretty low but operating system support by Ansible define what it’s really possible to do. I will give some basic examples through a playbook I use to customize my AIX systems.

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lpm and npiv

This post will cover the specifics about NPIV technology when using Live Partition Mobility.

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Introduction to CHEF on AIX

It’s a short introduction on how to use CHEF on AIX. It’s mainly targeted at people wondering what is actually possible to do with CHEF on AIX. The official client is really good but it’s features are not well known. So I thought about showing them here.

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shellshock aix bash packages

A little post to try to help admins to find from where their bash package is from. On AIX, bash can come from from a lot of different sources :)

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hmc v8 rest api part 1 curl

IBM published the reference documentation for HMC V8 REST api. Having a real API to interact with HMC is great. I played with it and in this post i will show how to use it with curl. Maybe not the most useful thing to do but it’s a good way to see how the API work :)

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