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.