zhmc_partition_list – List partitions (DPM mode)

Synopsis

  • List partitions on a specific CPC (Z system) or on all managed CPCs.

  • CPCs in classic mode are ignored (i.e. do not lead to a failure).

  • Partitions for which the user has no object access permission are ignored (i.e. do not lead to a failure).

  • On HMCs with version 2.14.0 or higher and when the additional_properties module parameter is not used, the “List Permitted Partitions” operation is used by this module. Otherwise, the managed CPCs are listed and then the partitions on each desired CPC or CPCs are listed. This improves the execution time of the module on newer HMCs but does not affect the module result data.

Requirements

  • The HMC userid must have object-access permissions to these objects: Target partitions, CPCs of target partitions (only for z13 and older).

Parameters

hmc_host

The hostnames or IP addresses of a single HMC or of a list of redundant HMCs. A single HMC can be specified as a string type or as an HMC list with one item. An HMC list can be specified as a list type or as a string type containing a Python list representation.

The first available HMC of a list of redundant HMCs is used for the entire execution of the module.

required: True
type: raw
hmc_auth

The authentication credentials for the HMC.

required: True
type: dict
userid

The userid (username) for authenticating with the HMC. This is mutually exclusive with providing hmc_auth.session_id.

required: False
type: str
password

The password for authenticating with the HMC. This is mutually exclusive with providing hmc_auth.session_id.

required: False
type: str
session_id

HMC session ID to be used. This is mutually exclusive with providing hmc_auth.userid and hmc_auth.password and can be created as described in the zhmc_session module.

required: False
type: str
ca_certs

Path name of certificate file or certificate directory to be used for verifying the HMC certificate. If null (default), the path name in the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable or the path name in the CURL_CA_BUNDLE environment variable is used, or if neither of these variables is set, the certificates in the Mozilla CA Certificate List provided by the ‘certifi’ Python package are used for verifying the HMC certificate.

required: False
type: str
verify

If True (default), verify the HMC certificate as specified in the hmc_auth.ca_certs parameter. If False, ignore what is specified in the hmc_auth.ca_certs parameter and do not verify the HMC certificate.

required: False
type: bool
default: True
cpc_name

Name of the CPC for which the partitions are to be listed.

Default: All managed CPCs.

required: False
type: str
additional_properties

List of additional properties to be returned for each partition, in addition to the default properties (see result description).

Mutually exclusive with full_properties.

The property names are specified with underscores instead of hyphens.

On HMCs with an HMC version below 2.14.0, all properties of each partition will be returned if this parameter is specified, but you should not rely on that.

required: False
type: list
elements: str
full_properties

If True, all properties of each partition will be returned. Default: False.

Mutually exclusive with additional_properties.

Note: Setting this to True causes a loop of ‘Get Partition Properties’ operations to be executed. It is preferable from a performance perspective to use the additional_properties parameter instead.

required: False
type: bool
log_file

File path of a log file to which the logic flow of this module as well as interactions with the HMC are logged. If null, logging will be propagated to the Python root logger.

required: False
type: str

Examples

---
# Note: The following examples assume that some variables named 'my_*' are set.

- name: List the permitted partitions on all managed CPCs
  zhmc_partition_list:
    hmc_host: "{{ my_hmc_host }}"
    hmc_auth: "{{ my_hmc_auth }}"
  register: partition_list

- name: List the permitted partitions on a CPC
  zhmc_partition_list:
    hmc_host: "{{ my_hmc_host }}"
    hmc_auth: "{{ my_hmc_auth }}"
    cpc_name: CPCA
  register: partition_list

Return Values

changed

Indicates if any change has been made by the module. This will always be false.

returned: always
type: bool
msg

An error message that describes the failure.

returned: failure
type: str
partitions

The list of permitted partitions, with a subset of their properties.

returned: success
type: list
elements: dict
sample:
[
    {
        "cpc_name": "CPC1",
        "has_unacceptable_status": false,
        "name": "partition1",
        "se_version": "2.15.0",
        "status": "active"
    }
]
name

partition name

type: str
cpc_name

Name of the parent CPC of the partition

type: str
se_version

SE version of the parent CPC of the partition

type: str
status

The current status of the partition. For details, see the description of the ‘status’ property in the data model of the ‘Logical Partition’ resource (see HMC API).

type: str
has_unacceptable_status

Indicates whether the current status of the partition is unacceptable, based on its ‘acceptable-status’ property.

type: bool
{additional_property}

Additional properties requested via full_properties or additional_properties. The property names will have underscores instead of hyphens.

type: raw