System modules

• aix_devices – Manages AIX devices

• aix_filesystem – Configure LVM and NFS file systems for AIX

• aix_inittab – Manages the inittab on AIX

• aix_lvg – Manage LVM volume groups on AIX

• aix_lvol – Configure AIX LVM logical volumes

• alternatives – Manages alternative programs for common commands

• at – Schedule the execution of a command or script file via the at command

• authorized_key – Adds or removes an SSH authorized key

• awall – Manage awall policies

• beadm – Manage ZFS boot environments on FreeBSD/Solaris/illumos systems

• capabilities – Manage Linux capabilities

• cron – Manage cron.d and crontab entries

• cronvar – Manage variables in crontabs

• crypttab – Encrypted Linux block devices

• dconf – Modify and read dconf database

• debconf – Configure a .deb package

• facter – Runs the discovery program facter on the remote system

• filesystem – Makes a filesystem

• firewalld – Manage arbitrary ports/services with firewalld

• gather_facts – Gathers facts about remote hosts

• gconftool2 – Edit GNOME Configurations

• getent – A wrapper to the unix getent utility

• group – Add or remove groups

• hostname – Manage hostname

• interfaces_file – Tweak settings in /etc/network/interfaces files

• iptables – Modify iptables rules

• java_cert – Uses keytool to import/remove key from java keystore (cacerts)

• java_keystore – Create or delete a Java keystore in JKS format

• kernel_blacklist – Blacklist kernel modules

• known_hosts – Add or remove a host from the known_hosts file

• listen_ports_facts – Gather facts on processes listening on TCP and UDP ports

• locale_gen – Creates or removes locales

• lvg – Configure LVM volume groups

• lvol – Configure LVM logical volumes

• make – Run targets in a Makefile

• mksysb – Generates AIX mksysb rootvg backups

• modprobe – Load or unload kernel modules

• mount – Control active and configured mount points

• nosh – Manage services with nosh

• ohai – Returns inventory data from Ohai

• open_iscsi – Manage iSCSI targets with Open-iSCSI

• openwrt_init – Manage services on OpenWrt

• osx_defaults – Manage macOS user defaults

• pam_limits – Modify Linux PAM limits

• pamd – Manage PAM Modules

• parted – Configure block device partitions

• pids – Retrieves process IDs list if the process is running otherwise return empty list

• ping – Try to connect to host, verify a usable python and return pong on success

• puppet – Runs puppet

• python_requirements_info – Show python path and assert dependency versions

• reboot – Reboot a machine

• runit – Manage runit services

• seboolean – Toggles SELinux booleans

• sefcontext – Manages SELinux file context mapping definitions

• selinux – Change policy and state of SELinux

• selinux_permissive – Change permissive domain in SELinux policy

• selogin – Manages linux user to SELinux user mapping

• seport – Manages SELinux network port type definitions

• service – Manage services

• service_facts – Return service state information as fact data

• setup – Gathers facts about remote hosts

• solaris_zone – Manage Solaris zones

• svc – Manage daemontools services

• sysctl – Manage entries in sysctl.conf

• syspatch – Manage OpenBSD system patches

• systemd – Manage services

• sysvinit – Manage SysV services

• timezone – Configure timezone setting

• ufw – Manage firewall with UFW

• user – Manage user accounts

• vdo – Module to control VDO

• xfconf – Edit XFCE4 Configurations

• xfs_quota – Manage quotas on XFS filesystems

Note

• (D): This marks a module as deprecated, which means a module is kept for backwards compatibility but usage is discouraged. The module documentation details page may explain more about this rationale.