Releases

Version 1.8.3

Notes

  • Fixed linting issue reported by Red Hat Automation Hub.

Availability

Version 1.8.2

Notes

  • Enhancement to handle mirrored rootvg in case of alt_disk_copy.

  • Fixed LDAP check before running mkuser.

  • Enhancements in nim_adm role: check for CacheVG, eFix bundle, pre/post migration.

  • Expanded nimadm_options to include Pre-,Post-, and Phases_to_run and set_fact for them.

  • Add output from “lsrsrc IBM.MCP” to lpar_facts to make the controlling HMC details readily available from within a playbook.

  • Fixed idempotency issue for specific attributes in filesystem module.

  • New demo_getconf.py playbook.

Availability

Version 1.8.1

Notes

  • Fixed documentation in install_all_updates

Availability

Version 1.8.0

Notes

  • New module: install_all_upates

  • New Module: getconf to generate system configuration variable values as facts.

  • Enhancement: Mount module is updated to use mount command instead of df.

  • Enhancement: Enhanced parsing of nim_resource module stdout.

  • Enhancement: Updated emgr module to remove ifix.

  • Enhancement: Updated flrtvc module to list system specific fixes, AIX/VIOS.

  • Enhancement: Updated lvm_facts module to include PVs without VG or unvaried VG.

  • Enahncement: Updated documentations.

  • Defect: Fix nim module to update from lpp source.

  • Defect: Fix nim module fo unavail_targets.

  • Defect: alt_disk module is fixed for alt_rootvg_op operation, install action.

  • Defect: Group module is fixed for creating group with group id.

  • Defect: Fix filesystem module which used to set “options=rw” when creating filesystem.

  • Defect: Fix lvol module to allow renaming without specifying size.

Availability

Version 1.7.2

Notes

  • Fixed ansible-lint issue for various playbooks.

Availability

Version 1.7.1

Notes

  • Minimim ansible version is changed to 2.14.0

  • Fixed dnf bootstrap issue for python3 in AIX 7.1 and 7.2

Availability

Version 1.7.0

Notes

  • New Role: NIM Master Migration.

  • New module: Physical and Logical volume encryption.

  • New demo playbook: NIM Master migration and PV/LV Encryption.

  • NIM module enhanced to register new client.

  • Included link to Power research program in the galaxy page.

  • Fix for parsing lspv, lsvg header to get LV attribute indexes.

  • Updated dnf bootstrap installer.

  • Fix for minimum space issue to setup dnf/python.

  • dnf setup is enhanced to support proxy servers.

  • Fixed ansible-lint issue in demo_yum_install_DB.yml.

  • Updated flrtvc link in nim_flrtvc module.

  • emgr module is fixed and idempotent now.

  • Fixed user module to support idempotency.

  • alt_disk module has now support for install operations.

  • Fixed utf-8 encoding issue in flrtvc module.

  • Fixed inittab module to modify entry and is idempotent now.

  • Fixed the logic of disk_size_policy in alt_disk module.

Availability

Version 1.6.4

Notes

  • Fixed documentation for release platform

Availability
. _Automation Hub v1.6.4:

https://cloud.redhat.com/ansible/automation-hub/ibm/power_aix

Version 1.6.3

Notes

  • Fixed pylint, shellcheck and shebang issues for a clean build.

Availability
. _Automation Hub v1.6.3:

https://cloud.redhat.com/ansible/automation-hub/ibm/power_aix

Version 1.6.2

Notes

  • Fix for mount module to handle umount state in case of existing NFS server directories.

  • User module is now able to create local user even if the user exists in active directory (LDAP)

  • demo_alt_disk playbook

  • Fix for emgr module in case of no efix data available

  • Fix for devices modules, handling runtime errors

  • Fixed nim_backup playbooks

  • Feature enhancement: Include alternate disk to update in nim module

Availability

Version 1.6.1

Notes

  • Fix pylint issues

  • Fix yamllint issue

Availability

Version 1.6.0

Notes

  • New module: Bosboot.

  • New Playbooks: mktun, mount,installp, user, mpio, mkfilt,

  • New Playbooks: bosboot, group, tunables, filesystem, nim_suma, logical_volume

  • New Playbooks: tunfile_mgmt, mktcpip, inittab

  • Enhanced idempotency for devices module.

  • Enhancement in nim_alt_disk_migration:

    • Target disk without PVID accepted

    • Divide Used PVs by number of PVs to overcome multiple PVs in rootvg

    • Allow install of AIX level lower than NIM master AIX level

    • Reduce debug info after checking client OS level

    • Add cache VG and Bundle to nimadm options

    • Re-order nimadm flags and “quote” disk variable to allow multiple PVs in rootvg

    • Correct {{ nim_client_v }} to {{ nim_client }}

  • Enhanced alt_disk module: allows to clean old_rootvg.

  • Improved parsing for emgr module output for ifix lists and details.

  • Fixed power_aix_bootstrap role dnf_installer.sh

  • Fixed power_aix_bootstrap role to support DNF installation for AIX-7.1 and above.

  • Yum is not supported anymore from ansible as a result of sunset of python 2.

  • Fixed power_aix_bootstrap role to show failure in case it is unable to install DNF.

Availability

Version 1.5.1

Notes

  • Various customer defects from public repository are fixed.

  • Fixed broken download link for flrtvc module.

  • Added quorum to lvg module.

  • Fix for filesystem module which ignored attributes parameter for NFS filesystems.

  • Fix to be more strict on mount check.

  • Allow repository sources to be overridden for local mirrors, for yum.

  • Fix in suma module to prevent type comparison error in case the metadata file that is being searched does not specify an SP version.

  • Fix for idempotecy issue for installp module.

  • Updates to sanity tests.

  • Fixed python linting issue for various modules.

Availability

Version 1.5.0

Notes

  • New role, nim_alt_disk_migration, for automating AIX migration (upgrades) using nimadm ( Network Install Manager Alternate Disk Migration) utility.

  • Information: https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix/blob/dev-collection/roles/nim_alt_disk_migration/README.md

  • New module, nim_resource, to create, remove or display NIM resource objects such as lpp_source, spot, etc.

  • New enhanced nim module, with new option “show” to display NIM object information.

  • New module, tunables, for automating Kernel Tuning management of no, nfso, vmo, ioo, raso, and schedo.

  • New module, tunfile_mgnt, for automating Kernel Tuning using files with tuning parameter values: no, nfs, vmo, ioo, raso, and schedo.

  • Enhanced inventory for lpar_facts. Examples: facts for os level, inc_core_crypto, nxcrypto, processor type/implementation mode, and others.

  • Enhanced inventory for lpp_facts. Examples: facts for fixes (apar, SP, TL), version consistency (lppchk).

  • New module, chsec, for automating changes to attributes in the security stanza files.

  • Fix DNF bootstrap not to download the AIX Toolbox bundle if it exist in the controller.

  • Updates to sanity tests.

Availability

Version 1.4.1

Notes

  • Fix DNF bootstrap for AIX 7.3 in role power_aix_bootstrap role in supporting new AIX Linux toolbox changes.

  • Fix DNF bootstrap in role power_aix_bootstrap to run with Ansible Tower.

  • Fix devices module to support inet0 add/delete routes.

  • Fix installp module idempotency issue to show changes in case of at least one successful operation.

  • Fix flrtvc module messages if there are no interim fixes to install.

  • Fix flrtvc module to prevent failures after downloading compressed file fixes; there are no interim fixes to install.

  • Issue #184: Add missing file vioshc_dep_install.yml to the power_aix_vioshc role.

  • Fix user module idempotency issue by comparing current values to requested changes before executing any actions.

Availability

Version 1.4.0

Notes

  • Support for the new AIX 7.3 release.

  • Updates to multiple modules and roles to ensure python2/python3 compatibility.

  • Updates to the power_aix_bootstrap to install dnf on AIX 7.3.

  • Updates to the flrtc and nim_flrtvc modules to work with the new AIX toolsbox wget binary path: /opt/freeware/bin.

  • Multiple fixes to clean up ansible-lint and other sanity checks.

  • Fix issue #168. power_aix_bootstrap inventory_host variable problem.

  • Fix issue #157 for the mount.py module. Error while changing the state from mount to unmount while mounting/umounting for a NFSv4 filesytem.

  • Fix issue #151 for user.py. Fail to create/modify user if attribute “gecos” contains spaces.

Availability

Version 1.3.1

Notes

  • Fix issue #145: user module with non string attributes fails.

  • Fixes to pass sanity checks on Ansible minimum required version.

Availability

Version 1.3.0

Notes

  • Change Ansible support from 2.0 to 2.9.

  • smtctl: new module to enables/disable simultaneous MultiThreading mode.

  • backup: Fix idempotency issues. Add new force option to overwrite a backup. Better examples.

  • alt_disk: fix failure with no free disk available. issue #61.

  • devices: Fix idempotency issues. Other issues: #59, #98.

  • emgr: Fix idempotency issues.

  • filesystem: Fix idempotency issues. Other issues: #76. Other improvements.

  • lvg: Fix idempotency issues.

  • lvm_facts: Display volume groups that are deactivated or varied off.

  • lvol: Fix idempotency issues.Fix the wrong interpretation for attribute size (issue #72). Issue #100.

    • Add strip_size attribute.

    • Allow users to re-size (increase) logical volumes by using +<size><suffix>,

  • where suffix can be B/M/K/G or a bigger size value.

  • nim: Add new attribute boot_client option to prevent nim from rebooting the client. Other fixes

  • user: Fix issue #110: modify attributes was not working.

  • flrtvc: Allows user to specify the protocol (ftp/http) to download fixes(issue #70).

  • mount: Fix proper checking for remote fs (issue #111)

  • group: Fix idempotency issues. (issue #69)

  • reboot: Fix issue #78

  • Readme: Requirement change to Ansible 2.9 or newer from Ansible 2.0

Availability

Version 1.2.1

Notes

  • Minor fixes for playbook demo_nim_viosupgrade.yml

  • Minor fixes for plugin reboot.py

Availability

Version 1.2.0

Notes

  • Refresh of patch management capability (Update recommended)

  • Fixes in nim_flrtvc and nim_backup modules for Python2 compatibility

  • Documenting RBAC authorizations per module

  • Quickstart documentation: user creation with RBAC authorization

  • use nim_exec() instead of calling c_rsh command directly in nim, nim_flrtvc, nim_suma

  • new playbook examples / improvements

  • aixpert: new module for AIXPert

  • alt_disk: new options for alt_disk_copy

  • backup: add restore and view operation for mksysb + playbook

  • bootlist: new module

  • inittab: new module

  • lpar_facts: new module

  • lvm_facts: new module

  • lvol: new module for logical volume management

  • mkfilt: new module

  • mktun: new module to manage IPsec manual tunnels

  • mpio: new module

  • nim: uniformize logging and message, add ‘meta’ and command returns

  • nim_backup: fix multithreading for simultaneous mksysb creation with NIM

  • nim_updateios: major fixes and improvements for cluster management

  • nim_updateios: fix cluster -list that returns 7 fields if not verbose not 21 fields

  • nim_vios_alt_disk: rework logging and result reporting

  • reboot: new module

  • suma: fix issue #40 (unpack return value calling suma_command())

  • user: improvement (issues #56 and #57 )

Availability

Version 1.1.2

Notes

  • Beta: preview of the lpar_facts module

  • Beta: preview of the lvm_facts module

  • Beta: preview of the bootlist module

  • mkfilt: use run_command with check_rc=True when appropriate

  • nim_upgradeios: module has been deprecated (use nim_viosupgrade)

  • nim_viosupgrade: fixes for altdisk and bosinst operations

  • new playbook to demo nim_viosupgrade

  • new roles for inetd and bootptab

  • documentation revisions for several modules

Availability

Version 1.1.1

Notes

  • Beta: preview of the lpp_facts module

  • nim_upgradeios: fixes

  • nim_viosupgrade: fixes/ cleanup

  • user: fix change_passwd_on_login

  • user: don’t log parameters related to passwords

  • filesystem and other modules: use FQDN in examples

Availability

Version 1.1.0

Notes

  • Refresh of patch management capability (Update recommended)

  • new modules: inittab, mkfilt

  • aixpert: new module for AIXPert

  • lvol: new module for logical volume management

  • alt_disk: new options for alt_disk_copy

  • backup: add restore and view operation for mksysb + playbook

  • nim_backup: fix multithreading for simultaneous mksysb creation with NIM

  • nim_updateios: major fixes and improvements for cluster management

  • nim_updateios: fix cluster -list that returns 7 fields if not verbose not 21 fields

  • suma: fix issue #40 (unpack return value calling suma_command())

Availability

Version 1.0.2

Notes

  • Includes Ansible Roles for bootstrap (yum/python) and VIOS health checker (early release)

  • NIM backup module (early release)

  • Filesystem module (early release)

  • Minor fixes for NIM updateios

  • Minor fixes for mount module

Availability

Version 1.0.1

Notes

  • Improvements to FLRTVC patch reporting

Availability

Version 1.0.0

Notes

  • Official release of patch management capability

  • Update recommended

Availability

Version 0.4.2

Notes

  • Minor bug fixes for flrtvc and nim modules

Availability

Version 0.4.1

Notes

  • Initial beta release of IBM Power Systems AIX collection, referred to as power_aix

Availability