IBM Power Systems AIX Collection

Scope

The IBM Power Systems AIX collection provides tools (modules) to help manage configurations and deployments for Power AIX systems. This collection supports using workloads on Power platforms as part of an automation strategy, specifically through Ansible.

The IBM Power Systems AIX collection is part of the community content managed under Ansible Content for IBM Power Systems.

Usage

This repository includes some recommended best practices for open source projects:

• LICENSE

• README.md

• CONTRIBUTING.md

• MAINTAINERS.md

• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md for detailed guidelines read this.

• travis.yml - See https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/tutorial/ for more details.

Requirements

Platforms

• AIX 7.1
• AIX 7.2

Ansible

• Needs Ansible version 2.0 or newer
• For installation help, check the Installing Ansible section of the Ansible Documentation.
• For help with the ibm.power_aix collection installation, visit the install page of this project.

Python

• Needs Python version 2.7 or newer.
• To install or upgrade Python on AIX, first set up YUM. Installing YUM will automatically install Python2.
• After configuring YUM, you can update all packages to the latest version using the yum update command.

Resources

Module documentation can be found on GitHub Pages.

Questions, Issues, or Contributions

If you have questions or problems, you can create a new issue here.

Pull requests are always welcome! Ensure your changes are well tested. Ideally, create a separate topic branch for each change:

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to your branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License & Authors

For detailed license information, click here.

Copyright:: 2020- IBM, Inc

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Authors:

• Paul B. Finley pfinley@us.ibm.com
• Vianney Robin vrobin@us.ibm.com
• Damien Bergamini dbergami@us.ibm.com
• Alain Poncet aponcet@us.ibm.com
• Kavana Bhat kavana.bhat@in.ibm.com
• Nitish Mishra nitismis@in.ibm.com
• Patrice Jacquin pjacquin@us.ibm.com
• Pascal Oliva poliva@us.ibm.com