How To
Summary
There are hundreds of tool available for AIX but many techies have no found them on the list as it steadily grows.
In this article, I highlight the interesting and new content built for AIX as long term an AIX systems administrator and programmer.
Objective
👁 Nigels Banner
Environment
AIX 7.2 mostly - Why use anything else?
Install yum and then you can get quickly install any of these packages.
See the AIXpert Blog on the yum installer package: AIX and yum - Get those Open Source apps on AIX the easy way
Steps
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You can find all these packages and many more at
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Ansible
SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system
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Bash
The Linux preferred shell
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Cloud-init
Cloud node initialization tool used by PowerVC
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Curl
Gets a file from an FTP or HTTP Server
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Filebeat
Open source file harvester - used by elastic
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Ganglia & extensions
A performance and config gathering & graphing tools particularly for large clusters
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GCC
Famous GNU compiler for C, C++ FORTRAN and Google's go
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Git and tools
Source code management
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Golang
Google's "go" language interpreter
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Gzip
The famous file compressing tool
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Helm
The Kubernetes Package Manager
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Httpd
The Apache web server
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Jq
The "jq" tool is like "sed" but for JSON files and includes advanced reformatting options
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Kebucrl, kunelet, kubernetes: node-img, node and tool modules
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MariaDB RDBMS and many tools forked from the Oracle owned MySQL
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Nagios
Host/service/network monitoring program
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Nginx
A high-performance web server and reverse proxy server
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PostgreSQL fast and robust RDBMS
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Python and tools and modules
3.7 & 2.7 for web apps, file manipulation, data analysis
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R
A language for data analysis and graphics
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Rrdtool
Round Robin Database Tool to store & display time-series data
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Ruby
An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language
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Salt and tools
A parallel remote execution system for system admin
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Samba
Server and Client software to inter-operate with Windows machines
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Squid
The Squid proxy caching server.
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Sudo
Allows restricted root access for specified users
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Tightvnc
A remote X Windows display system that uses VNC
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Unrar
Extraction tools for compressed files
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Vim
The vim tool is Linux version of vi from UNIX but has extra features like large file support
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Wget
A utility for retrieving files uses the HTTP/FTP protocol
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Yum and tools
RPM installer and updater
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Zip and unzip
A file compression and packaging utility
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Document Location
Worldwide
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Modified date:
30 May 2023
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