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Operating Systems AIX Chef client on VIOs? How do you manage your VIO configs? Post 303038659 by RecoveryOne on Tuesday 10th of September 2019 01:43:36 PM
Old 09-10-2019
Chef client on VIOs? How do you manage your VIO configs?
I know the VIOs are generally to be treated as an appliance and one should never drop down to oem_setup_env. In reality however, oem is a very useful tool to get the job done. So that leads me into the question of using the Chef client on a VIO.

Currently a big push to manage all our *nix infrastructure with a compliance as code type of tool. Make sure there's odm alerts, ntp is set, whole list of other things. And force a box back into compliance if its out of spec. In past this was managed by each lpar holding a directory with scripts and items added to the appropriate places.

Has anyone tried to run the Chef client on the VIO? I see that the AIX cookbook has a nimviosupdate to help build resources. However, I am not finding a lot of information about actual customers running the client on the VIO in a production setting. So, has anyone ran the Chef client on the VIO? Did you have any issues with IBM support if they noticed the client running? Looking at the supported software solutions I see that the puppet client is supported, but no mention of Chef. In a document by Paul Finley from 2016, there is mention of VIOS Patch management with Chef but unable to find anything beyond that.

So part two of my question:
If you are not running any sort of configuration management on the VIOs, then how are you controlling the configs for your VIOs?

In the past, each VIO was built as needed but DNS servers retire and new ones get put into place. Search domains same thing. We've even had to change our NTP server. Doing this all by hand is tedious.

Thanks everyone!
 

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CHEF-CLIENT(8)							    Chef Manual 						    CHEF-CLIENT(8)

NAME

       chef-client - Runs a client node connecting to a chef-server.

SYNOPSIS

       chef-client (options)

       -S, --server CHEFSERVERURL
	      The chef server URL

       -c, --config CONFIG
	      The configuration file to use

       -d, --daemonize
	      Daemonize the process

       -g, --group GROUP
	      Group to set privilege to

       -i, --interval SECONDS
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       -j, --json-attributes JSON_ATTRIBS
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       -k, --client_key KEY_FILE
	      Set the client key file location

       -s, --splay SECONDS
	      The splay time for running at intervals, in seconds

       -u, --user USER
	      User to set privilege to

       -P, --pid PIDFILE
	      Set the PID file location, defaults to /tmp/chef-client.pid

       --once Cancel any interval or splay options, run chef once and exit

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       The  Chef  Client  is where almost all of the work in Chef is done. It communicates with the Chef Server via REST, authenticates via Signed
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