10-11-2019
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Oh, its worse than 2.2.5. I'd actually be happy if it was .5. Let us say 2.2.2 something!
And yes well aware version not supported. Also paying out the teeth for 'extended' support for AIX since it still has 6.1 lpar's underneath the VIOS. Yes, yes I know all about the issues. Just I'm beholden to the customer and they have signed off on the risks. So if anything happens they are fully aware. Every quarter they are notified that they've signed x document stating that they accept all risk for running out of support, etc, etc.
I have a few boxes I can stand up that version of VIOS on, or find a close match with pure AIX.
As to chef, I'm learning it. As you can see from my post history, my scripting skills aren't that great. So its been fun. Few of my goals are to manage resolv.conf, services, edit/verify ODM entries (think hardware and core dump notifications). Right now starting off small with just ODM error notifications. Finally got that cookbook wrapped up. Likely not the best and if posted publicly people would rip it to shreds but seems to work for the various edge cases I threw at it.