IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.3.0

Release Notes

• Change Ansible support from 2.0 to 2.9.
• smtctl: new module to enables/disable simultaneous MultiThreading mode.
• backup: Fix idempotency issues. Add new force option to overwrite a backup. Better examples.
• alt_disk: fix failure with no free disk available. issue #61.
• devices: Fix idempotency issues. Other issues: #59, #98.
• emgr: Fix idempotency issues.
• filesystem: Fix idempotency issues. Other issues: #76. Other improvements.
• lvg: Fix idempotency issues.
• lvm_facts: Display volume groups that are deactivated or varied off.
• lvol: Fix idempotency issues.Fix the wrong interpretation for attribute size (issue #72). Issue #100.
  Add strip_size attribute.
  Allow users to re-size (increase) logical volumes by using +,
  where suffix can be B/M/K/G or a bigger size value.
• nim: Add new attribute boot_client option to prevent nim from rebooting the client. Other fixes
• user: Fix issue #110: modify attributes was not working.
• flrtvc: Allows user to specify the protocol (ftp/http) to download fixes(issue #70).
• mount: Fix proper checking for remote fs (issue #111)
• group: Fix idempotency issues. (issue #69)
• reboot: Fix issue #78
• Readme: Requirement change to Ansible 2.9 or newer from Ansible 2.0

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.2.1

Patch release version-1.2.1

• Minor fixes for playbook demo_nim_viosupgrade.yml
• Minor fixes for plugin reboot.py

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.2.0

Release Notes

• Refresh of patch management capability (Update recommended)
• Fixes in nim_flrtvc and nim_backup modules for Python2 compatibility
• Documenting RBAC authorizations per module
• Quickstart documentation: user creation with RBAC authorization
• use nim_exec() instead of calling c_rsh command directly in nim, nim_flrtvc, nim_suma
• new playbook examples / improvements
• aixpert: new module for AIXPert
• alt_disk: new options for alt_disk_copy
• backup: add restore and view operation for mksysb + playbook
• bootlist: new module
• inittab: new module
• lpar_facts: new module
• lvm_facts: new module
• lvol: new module for logical volume management
• mkfilt: new module
• mktun: new module to manage IPsec manual tunnels
• mpio: new module
• nim: uniformize logging and message, add 'meta' and command returns
• nim_backup: fix multithreading for simultaneous mksysb creation with NIM
• nim_updateios: major fixes and improvements for cluster management
• nim_updateios: fix cluster -list that returns 7 fields if not verbose not 21 fields
• nim_vios_alt_disk: rework logging and result reporting
• reboot: new module
• suma: fix issue #40 (unpack return value calling suma_command())
• user: improvement (issues #56 and #57 )

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.1.2-FP1

Fix Pack release of version-1.1.2

• Fix list.copy() issue in Python 2

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.1.2

Patch release version-1.1.2

• Beta: preview of the lpar_facts module
• Beta: preview of the lvm_facts module
• Beta: preview of the bootlist module
• mkfilt: use run_command with check_rc=True when appropriate
• nim_upgradeios: module has been deprecated (use nim_viosupgrade)
• nim_viosupgrade: fixes for altdisk and bosinst operations
• new playbook to demo nim_viosupgrade
• new roles for inetd and bootptab

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.1.1

Patch release version-1.1.1

• Beta: preview of the lpp_facts module
• nim_upgradeios: fixes
• nim_viosupgrade: fixes/ cleanup
• user: fix change_passwd_on_login
• user: don't log parameters related to passwords
• filesystem and other modules: use FQDN in examples

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.1.0

Notes

• Refresh of patch management capability (Update recommended)
• new modules: inittab, mkfilt
• aixpert: new module for AIXPert
• lvol: new module for logical volume management
• alt_disk: new options for alt_disk_copy
• backup: add restore and view operation for mksysb + playbook
• nim_backup: fix multithreading for simultaneous mksysb creation with NIM
• nim_updateios: major fixes and improvements for cluster management
• nim_updateios: fix cluster -list that returns 7 fields if not verbose not 21 fields
• suma: fix issue #40 (unpack return value calling suma_command())

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.0.2

Patch release version-1.0.2

• Includes Ansible Roles for bootstrap (yum/python) and VIOS health checker (early release)
• NIM backup module (early release)
• Filesystem module (early release)
• Minor fixes for NIM updateios
• Minor fixes for mount module

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.0.1-FP2

2nd Fix Pack release of version-1.0.1 which includes:

• updates to mount module
• early code addition of filesystem module

IBM Power Systems AIX collection v1.0.1-FP1

Fix Pack release of version-1.0.1 which includes an Ansible Role for bootstrap