New Ansible module AIX Devices

Today I submitted a new pull request (PR) to Ansible Project with a new module. The new module aix_devices makes easy discovers, defines, removes and modifies attributes of AIX devices.

I also released this new module on my Ansible AIX support collections. If you don't what is that, visit my post about AIX modules

I am very motivated to put AIX native supported on Ansible.

This module is very useful to manage devices, doing tuning, discovering new adapters and also managing network and routing on AIX as it is configurable directly on devices as enX and inet0.

See below a collection of uses of this module:

---
- name: Testing
  hosts: lpar22

  tasks:
    - name: Scan new devices.
      aix_devices:
        device: all
        state: present

    - name: Scan new virtual devices (vio0).
      aix_devices:
        device: vio0
        state: present

    - name: Removes ent2.
      aix_devices:
        device: ent2
        state: absent

    - name: Put device en2 in Defined
      aix_devices:
        device: en2
        state: defined

    - name: Removes ent4 (inexistent).
      aix_devices:
        device: ent4
        state: absent

    - name: Put device en4 in Defined (inexistent)
      aix_devices:
        device: en4
        state: defined

    - name: Put vscsi1 and children devices in Defined state.
      aix_devices:
        device: vscsi1
        recursive: yes
        state: defined

    - name: Removes vscsi1 and children devices.
      aix_devices:
        device: vscsi1
        recursive: yes
        state: absent

    - name: Changes en1 mtu to 9000 and disables arp.
      aix_devices:
        device: en1
        attributes: mtu=900,arp=off
        state: present

    - name: Configure IP, netmask and set en1 up.
      aix_devices:
        device: en1
        attributes: netaddr=192.168.0.100,netmask=255.255.255.0,state=up
        state: present

    - name: Adding IP alias to en0
      aix_devices:
        device: en0
        attributes: [
            "alias4=10.0.0.100,255.255.255.0"
            ]
        state: present

Output from this playbook

# ansible-playbook -i /etc/inventory playbooks/test.yml -v

PLAY [Testing] ************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************************************
ok: [lpar22]

TASK [Scan new devices.] **************************************************************************************
changed: [lpar22] => {"changed": true, "failed": false, "msg": "", "state": "present"}

TASK [Scan new virtual devices (vio0).] ***********************************************************************
changed: [lpar22] => {"changed": true, "failed": false, "msg": "", "state": "present"}

TASK [Removes ent2.] ******************************************************************************************
changed: [lpar22] => {"changed": true, "failed": false, "msg": "ent2 deleted\n", "state": "absent"}

TASK [Put device en2 in Defined] ******************************************************************************
ok: [lpar22] => {"changed": false, "failed": false, "msg": "Device en2 already in Defined", "state": "defined"}

TASK [Removes ent4 (inexistent).] *****************************************************************************
ok: [lpar22] => {"changed": false, "failed": false, "msg": "Device ent4 does not exist.", "state": "absent"}

TASK [Put device en4 in Defined (inexistent)] *****************************************************************
ok: [lpar22] => {"changed": false, "failed": false, "msg": "Device en4 does not exist.", "state": "defined"}

TASK [Put vscsi1 and children devices in Defined state.] ******************************************************
changed: [lpar22] => {"changed": true, "failed": false, "msg": "vscsi1 Defined\n", "state": "defined"}

TASK [Removes vscsi1 and children devices.] *******************************************************************
changed: [lpar22] => {"changed": true, "failed": false, "msg": "vscsi1 deleted\n", "state": "absent"}

TASK [Changes en1 mtu to 9000 and disables arp.] **************************************************************
changed: [lpar22] => {"changed": true, "failed": false, "msg": "Attributes changed: arp=off. Attributes already set: mtu=900. ", "state": "present"}

TASK [Configure IP, netmask and set en1 up.] ******************************************************************
changed: [lpar22] => {"changed": true, "failed": false, "msg": "Attributes changed: netaddr=192.168.0.100,netmask=255.255.255.0,state=up. ", "state": "present"}

TASK [Adding IP alias to en0] *********************************************************************************
changed: [lpar22] => {"changed": true, "failed": false, "msg": "Attributes changed: alias4=10.0.0.100,255.255.255.0. ", "state": "present"}

PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************************
lpar22                     : ok=12   changed=8    unreachable=0    failed=0

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