Using Ansible to create AIX fixes

The playbook

My notebook is almost dead. The monitor doesn’t work anymore. I am in the process of transfer my work from the old notebook to a temporary one. It works worse as I thought but I still can do something. Like writing newsletters.

Last week’s newsletter is about automating creation of IBM fix duplicates. Wednesday’s newsletter is the full text of the last playbook (and corresponding files).

AWK script to analyze emgr output

I use a separate AWK script to analyze emgr output. It is possible to use ansible.utils.cli_parse to analyze output from command line tools, but I found it cumbersome in this particular case. If you want to see how to use Ansible, stay tuned. In one of the future newsletters I will analyze lsnim output with the cli_parse module.