Ahhh... Bueno! That should hopefully solve my problem. I was finding
conflicting information on whether it was supported or not,and the only client
download I could find was the enterprise client.
Thank you!
-spp
On October 6, 2015 1:49:22 PM EDT, Adam Compton <compt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>You may be interested to know that the open-source Puppet product
>_does_
>work with AIX; I imagine the Puppet Enterprise support is providing the
>
>surrounding tooling to get everything off the ground for you (e.g. Ruby
>
>packages). This link[1] has a recent description of the necessary
>steps.
>
>- Adam Compton
>
>[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/NX2IlfXtN_s
>
>
>On 10/6/15 10:14 AM, Steve Potter wrote:
>> Oh, great and powerful big brain,
>> I've recently started a new contract position where I've been asked
>to help modernize the Unix engineering teams practices. This
>environment has grown primarily by acquisition and is pretty much 10
>years behind the times. It's a mixed AIX (static, 150 workloads) and
>RedHat (strategic, growing, about 350 workloads) environment.
>>
>> They still think of themselves as a mom and pop shop, everything is
>done by hand and lots of one off scripts, even account management is
>handled locally on the servers. They are making some strides from an
>operational standing, they have Zabbix for their primary monitoring,
>Tripwire Professional is being installed for security on regulatory
>systems, Splunk had recently been purchased for centralized logging and
>management, and they are deciding on an AD bridge solution (Dell or
>Centrify, although they are leaning towards Dell). Management has
>suddenly gotten dashboard happy and want to be able to easily see what
>servers are company with regulations (SOX, PCI) best practices and/or
>internal standards, which have been patched recently, etc.
>>
>> The two places they still need the most help are provisioning and
>configuration management. They have no real tools or standards in
>place. They've got NIM and Satellite 5 setup, but more often than not,
>they clone an existing system and then reconfigure it by hand. My main
>focus is CM for both, then provisioning for Linux since AIX is pretty
>static. I was initially looking at using Puppet, then started looking
>to add either Razor or Foreman for provisioning. At Ohio Linux Fest
>this weekend, I learned that Satellite 6 is Foreman, Puppet, and
>Katello.
>>
>> However, as I started digging a little deeper, I realized that AIX is
>only supported with Puppet Enterprise, which is not integrated and
>compatible with Satellite. I could switch the design to PE, buy since
>they already pay for Satellite, it seems wasteful. I know Foreman/S6
>can plug in other tools like chef or ansible, so that might be a way to
>go instead.
>>
>> What do others do in this kind of mixed environment?
>> -spp
>>
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