Hi, Steve, In case you need support in addition to the packages, CFEngine has Enterprise packages and support for AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 <https://cfengine-package-repos.s3.amazonaws.com/enterprise/Enterprise-3.7.1/agent/aix_5_ppc/cfengine.cfengine-nova-3.7.1.0.bff> and CFEngineers.net (run by some folks in the CFEngine community) has cfengine-community packages for 5.3 through 7 ( http://www.cfengineers.net/downloads/cfengine-community-packages/).
Best, -at On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Steve Potter <s...@unixsa.net> 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 > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Need CFEngine training? Email train...@verticalsysadmin.com
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