Role Name

HEALTHCHECK_VIOS role is designed to check values of various VIOS parameters against the best practices recommended values (Can be modified in defaults/main.yml). If any value does not match to the desired value the output shows this.

Requirements

This role is only for IBM VIOS. This role uses "raw" module as it VIOS does not have Python installed therefore Python is NOT required for this role.

Create an "ansible" user on the VIOS or any other user. padmin user cannot be used.

Role Variables

Desired values of variables can be set in default/main.yml

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

• hosts: vios gather_facts: no remote_user: ansible roles:
  • healthcheck_vios

License

BSD

Author Information

Written by Azhar Ali of IBM Systems Lab Services MEA Provide feedback, suggestion or input at azharali@pk.ibm.com Feel free to request me for any new feature you believe should be added to this playbook Usage notes: This playbook NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED. No warrantee is given or implied, and you cannot obtain help with it from IBM.

Credits

Credits: v0.1 Fredrik Lundholm's (Power Implementation Quality Standard document) to identify the parameters to check as a baseline