community.general.aix_devices – Manages AIX devices

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.aix_devices.

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples

Synopsis

This module discovers, defines, removes and modifies attributes of AIX devices.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
attributes dictionary		A list of device attributes.
device string		The name of the device. `all` is valid to rescan `available` all devices (AIX cfgmgr command).
force boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Forces action.
recursive boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Removes or defines a device and children devices.
state string	Choices: available ← defined removed	Controls the device state. `available` (alias `present`) rescan a specific device or all devices (when `device` is not specified). `removed` (alias `absent` removes a device. `defined` changes device to Defined state.

Examples

- name: Scan new devices
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: all
    state: available

- name: Scan new virtual devices (vio0)
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: vio0
    state: available

- name: Removing IP alias to en0
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: en0
    attributes:
      delalias4: 10.0.0.100,255.255.255.0

- name: Removes ent2
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: ent2
    state: removed

- name: Put device en2 in Defined
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: en2
    state: defined

- name: Removes ent4 (inexistent).
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: ent4
    state: removed

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

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

- name: Removes vscsi1 and children devices.
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: vscsi1
    recursive: yes
    state: removed

- name: Changes en1 mtu to 9000 and disables arp.
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: en1
    attributes:
      mtu: 900
      arp: off
    state: available

- name: Configure IP, netmask and set en1 up.
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: en1
    attributes:
      netaddr: 192.168.0.100
      netmask: 255.255.255.0
      state: up
    state: available

- name: Adding IP alias to en0
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: en0
    attributes:
      alias4: 10.0.0.100,255.255.255.0
    state: available

Authors

Kairo Araujo (@kairoaraujo)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/aix_devices_module.html