Top Picks: AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

Created by Nigel Griffiths on Sun, 12/29/2019 - 04:21

Published URL:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1165378

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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

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

	You can find all these packages and many more at IBM Support AIX Toolbox Linux Applications - Overview IBM Support AIX Toolbox Linux Applications - DOWNLOAD IBM Support AIX Toolbox Linux Applications - License

Ansible SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system	Bash The Linux preferred shell	Cloud-init Cloud node initialization tool used by PowerVC	Curl Gets a file from an FTP or HTTP Server
Filebeat Open source file harvester - used by elastic	Ganglia & extensions A performance and config gathering & graphing tools particularly for large clusters	GCC Famous GNU compiler for C, C++ FORTRAN and Google's go	Git and tools Source code management
Golang Google's "go" language interpreter	Gzip The famous file compressing tool	Helm The Kubernetes Package Manager	Httpd The Apache web server
Jq The "jq" tool is like "sed" but for JSON files and includes advanced reformatting options	Kebucrl, kunelet, kubernetes: node-img, node and tool modules	MariaDB RDBMS and many tools forked from the Oracle owned MySQL	Nagios Host/service/network monitoring program
Nginx A high-performance web server and reverse proxy server	PostgreSQL fast and robust RDBMS	Python and tools and modules 3.7 & 2.7 for web apps, file manipulation, data analysis	R A language for data analysis and graphics
Rrdtool Round Robin Database Tool to store & display time-series data	Ruby An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language	Salt and tools A parallel remote execution system for system admin	Samba Server and Client software to inter-operate with Windows machines
Squid The Squid proxy caching server.	Sudo Allows restricted root access for specified users	Tightvnc A remote X Windows display system that uses VNC	Unrar Extraction tools for compressed files
Vim The vim tool is Linux version of vi from UNIX but has extra features like large file support	Wget A utility for retrieving files uses the HTTP/FTP protocol	Yum and tools RPM installer and updater	Zip and unzip A file compression and packaging utility

Document Location

Worldwide

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