community.general.aix_devices module – Manages AIX devices

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.9).

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

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

Parameters

Parameter

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

Forces action.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

recursive

boolean

Removes or defines a device and children devices.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

state

string

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.

Choices:

  • "available" ← (default)

  • "defined"

  • "removed"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

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: true
    state: defined

- name: Removes vscsi1 and children devices.
  community.general.aix_devices:
    device: vscsi1
    recursive: true
    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)