Hello everyone!
I miss one feature in the aix collection, the nimclient module that would allow Network Installation Management (NIM) operations to be performed from a NIM client. Right now we have the ibm.power_aix.nim module that allows tasks to be performed from NIM side. This makes it difficult to use NIM if we are doing something with ansible on AIX servers (targets). I tried using delegate_to: nim_master but it is not a perfect solution either (e.g. credantials).
Right now I do it like this:
---
- name: AIX System Update
hosts: aix_hosts
tasks:
- name: Perform AIX system update
shell: >
/usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/nim/methods/c_sm_nim update_all
-l "{{ lpp_source }}"
-f 'Y' -f 'c' -f 'N' -f 'g' -f 'X'
Unless I missed something and it is possible in the current collection.
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Kamil P
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