I installed Chef Client on an AIX server and added it to my Chef Server. The „normal“ mode of operations for Chef is that Chef client runs on regular basis, polls Chef server, downloads run-lists and required configurations and performs the tasks on the node, where it runs.
Month: December 2015
Adding AIX to existing Chef infrastructure
StandardI’m impressed. It was really easy. I have an old server, 9115-505, 4 GB RAM, with AIX 7.1 TL3 SP0 on it. Almost fresh installation, nothing special. The only special preparation measure, I had to take, was to check DNS configuration. In my test lab the Chef Server has name chef.enfence.net and the name must be resolvable to the right IP address on the client. You can achieve it with proper DNS configuration or with an entry in /etc/hosts.