os

Overview

Deprecated; Please the ibm_profile module.

This class is deprecated. The best thing, is to use the ibm_profile module. The ibm_profile module contains several steps that you can use to customize your OS setup as needed for MQ.

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The mq_install::os defined type is a convenience class for adding the MQ users and setting the MQ OS requirements on your system.

class mq_install::os( Easy_type::Password $mqm_password, )

Here is an example on how to use it:

class { 'mq_install::os':
  mqm_password    => Sensitive('verysecret'),
}

Attributes

mqm_password

The password to be used for the mqm user. The default is the same as the username.

Here is an example on how to use this:

class { '::mq_install::os':
  ...
  mqm_password => Sensitive('secret'),
  ...
}

Type: Easy_type::Password

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managehome

Allows you to specify whether you want to manage the MQM users home dir. By default this is set to true and it will create a home directory for the MQM user named ‘/var/mqm’.

When you want to use an other folder, set the value of managehome to false and create your own links from ‘/var/mqm’ to the directories you want.

Here is an example on how to use this:

class { '::mq_install::os':
  ...
  managehome => false,
  ...
}

Type: Boolean

Default:true

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