I see we have filebeat in the AIX Toolbox but not for AIX 7.1 (only AIX 7.2 and AIX 7.3).
I know nothing about getting it available for AIX 7.1 but I want to point out that AIX 7.1 is not going to be fully supported from Q1 2023. This means, in practice, that IBM will be less inclined to support AIX 7.1 packages.
I strongly recommend upgrading to AIX 7.2 or even better AIX 7.3.
From https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-support-lifecycle-information
and https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/lifecycle/search/?q=AIX%20Standard%20Edition
You can see AIX 7.1 first came out in Sept 2010 - it is time to move on.
Upgrading it very simple and AIX has absolutely amazing backward compatibility = meaning AIX 7.1 applications will run fine on AIX 7.3 without modification. In fact there is a binary compatibility statement that everything will work.
Unless you application code deliberately investigate the underlying processor hardware and refuses to run.
AIX 7.2 and AIX 7.3 have had 10 years of tuning by the AIX developers - you should find that they are faster. And with the dnf (the replacement for yum) easier to include the AIX toolbox applications.
There are many new features on newer AIX version that you are missing out on.
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Nigel Griffiths
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Original Message:
Sent: Sun October 30, 2022 09:05 AM
From: Shady Baseely
Subject: ELK Stack support for AIX toolbox
Hello Team,
After checking several threads and GitHub requests to have a complete ELK compatible with AIX. I'm wondering is there at least a compatible Logstash rpm with AIX 7.1 as there are some needs to it ?
@SANKET RATHI Any plans to have at least Logstash / Filebeat available in the toolbox ?
Thanks for your efforts.
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Shady Baseely
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