Jira (PUP-9041) AIX nim provider can't be used on a NIM master

Change By:	Erik Hansen
Issue Type:	Bug Improvement

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Issue Type:	Bug
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Created:	2018/08/03 12:35 PM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Erik Hansen

When using a package resource and the nim provider, the resource cannot be applied to a NIM master. The error received is:

Error: Failed to apply catalog: Execution of '/usr/sbin/nimclient -o showres -a installp_flags=L -a resource=lpp_resource' returned 147: 0042-147 nimclient: this command may not be executed on a NIM master.

This can be reproduced with a simple resource such as:

package { $install_pkgs:

  ensure => latest,

  provider => nim,

On a NIM master you cannot use the nimclient command, the command would have to be:

/usr/sbin/nim -o showres -a installp_flags=L lpp_resource

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Change By:	Erik Hansen
Environment:	Platform: AIX 7.2

When using a package resource and the nim provider, the resource cannot be applied to a NIM master. The error received is:

{noformat}Error: Failed to apply catalog: Execution of '/usr/sbin/nimclient -o showres -a installp_flags=L -a resource=lpp_resource' returned 147: 0042-147 nimclient: this command may not be executed on a NIM master.{noformat}

This can be reproduced with a simple resource such as:

{code:java}package { $install_pkgs:

ensure => latest,
provider => nim,

}{code}

On a NIM master you cannot use the nimclient command, the command would have to be:

{noformat}
/usr/sbin/nim -o showres -a installp_flags=L lpp_resource{noformat}

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Labels:	aix nim package type_and_provider

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https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.install/nim_op_cust.htm

IBM documentation on the nim command can be found here:

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Labels:	aix customer nim package type_and_provider

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Our ability to implement this will depend on our ability to reliably detect a NIM master programmatically (which should probably also be a new fact or something)

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The fix for this is to:

1. Add nim master detection (FACT-1884)
2. Update puppet to use the 'nim' command rather than 'nimclient'

Note that the parameters to 'nim' may differ slightly from 'nimclient'. we need to ensure we're correctly calling it.

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For what it's worth, only NIM masters have the "/usr/sbin/lsnim" command (provided by the "bos.sysmgt.nim.master" fileset). I hope this helps!

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Erik Hansen, Sean McDonald, Branan Riley, is there a way we can acceptance test this? we only have nim clients on nspooler. I did a rudimentary fix for this but I'm not sure how to test it on a nim master

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Our nim master is part of our production infra, so I wouldn't want to try to test anything there. In the past we'd talked about setting up one of our POWER machines as a "bare metal" test environment just for stuff like this, but we never made any progress there. I'm unsure what our AIX hardware allocation looks like right now and whether that's still something feasible (/cc Ken Johnson).

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Branan Riley Fortunately there's no limit on the number of NIM masters you can operate on a given host like there is with VIOS partitions, so we can definitely spin some non-prod instances up. How many would be desired and how soon/how high of priority is getting them available. Seems like probably a bit of an edge case, but one which would be quite important to anyone running into it.

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