This post will describe the installation and configuration of the user’s authentication with LDAP on AIX using IBM directory server client software.

This post will describe the installation of yum on AIX and some problems you can have when installing it on systems which have rpms from other sources already installed.

A small post about a bug I had after upgrading yum on AIX on some old servers.

In this post, I will show how to test a CHEF recipe with kitchen-wpar. I will also use the AIX cookbook to make more advanced recipes.

It’s a short introduction on what it’s possible to do with Ansible on AIX. Ansible is agentless so requirements are pretty low but operating system support by Ansible define what it’s really possible to do. I will give some basic examples through a playbook I use to customize my AIX systems.

This post will cover the specifics about NPIV technology when using Live Partition Mobility.

This post is a list of generic points I am checking when I setup Live Partition Mobility.

It’s a short introduction on how to use CHEF on AIX. It’s mainly targeted at people wondering what is actually possible to do with CHEF on AIX. The official client is really good but it’s features are not well known. So I thought about showing them here.

In this post I will build a AIX package in BFF format with the standard AIX tool mkinstallp.

A little post to try to help admins to find from where their bash package is from. On AIX, bash can come from from a lot of different sources :)

IBM published the reference documentation for HMC V8 REST api. Having a real API to interact with HMC is great. I played with it and in this post i will show how to use it with curl. Maybe not the most useful thing to do but it’s a good way to see how the API work :)

Here a little post to explain how to add a virtual ethernet adapter on IVM.