Having one centralized place for all configuration/RPM's is desirable to
me.  I honestly couldn't care less about provisioning AIX systems through
spacewalk and TL updates and so forth can be done like we normally do.
For us, it would be a huge win to be able to run remote commands, manage
configuration files, and deploy rpm updates through spacewalk.

On 2011-12-23 1:41 PM, "Coy Hile" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Wojtak, Greg
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> Has there been any effort to allow AIX hosts to become spacewalk
>>clients?  We have a mixed environment of Linux, Solaris, and AIX, so
>>being able to mange all three platform's configuration files, execute
>>remote commands, and some of the software (we use quite a few RPM's on
>>AIX for the F/OSS software that is not included with AIX).
>>
>> What kind of effort would be involved in getting these pieces working?
>>I'm not talking about provisioning or anything too complex.  I just
>>think it would be a huge gain to be able to do the things I mentioned
>>above.
>>
>
>Why wouldn't you just NIM?  I think you'd have a hard time making
>spacewalk alt-disk aware for a start.  And that's just the first thing
>that I thought of after about 5 seconds?  With Solaris, at least
>there's a value-add because Solaris packaging is so horrible.
>
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