Releases

Version 1.9.1

Released: 2024-07-18

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Sanity test: Fixed the sanity test on AutomationHub which failed because the “compile” and “import” tests were run for all target node Python versions, which includes Python 2.7. As we had dropped support for Python < 3.8 in collection version 1.9.0, the source code now uses Python 3-only features such as f-strings.

    This was done by adding a file tests/config.yml to the distribution archive that is consumed by the sanity test if present and that declares that the modules of this collection run only on the controller node, so the additional Python versions for the target node are no longer used for these sanity tests.

Cleanup:

  • Removed the unnecessary .pylintrc file from the distribution archive of the collection.

  • Dev: Brought the list of dependent files for the distribution archive in the Makefile back in sync with its content.

Version 1.9.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 1.8.3.

Released: 2024-07-18

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Incompatible changes:

  • Value of ‘password’ property will be replaced with ‘********’ in log messages and ‘result’ dictionary returned by zhmc_user.ensure_present().

  • Dropped support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7.

  • Increased minimum officially supported Ansible version to Ansible 8 / ansible-core 2.15. (issue #988)

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed safety issues up to 2024-06-24.

  • Fixed dependabot issues up to 2024-02-18.

  • Fixed a performance issue in the ‘zhmc_lpar_list’ and ‘zhmc_partition_list’ modules where the ‘se-version’ property was fetched from CPCs even if it was already available in the LPAR/partition properties. (issue #904)

  • Increased the minimum version of zhmcclient to 1.17.0 to pick up fixes, performance improvements and new functions. (related to issue #904 and others)

  • Fixed readable attribute error when ensuring ISO mounted onto the partition. (related to issue #932)

  • In the Github Actions test workflow for Python 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7, changed macos-latest back to macos-12 because macos-latest got upgraded from macOS 12 to macOS 14 which no longer supports these Python versions.

  • In the Github Actions test workflow for Python 3.5, added a circumvention for the Pip certificate issue.

  • Fixed that the ‘timeout’ parameter of the zhmc_lpar module was not used for ‘state=inactive’. (related to issue #986)

  • Test: Fixed that coverage was calculated only for the Ansible module source files, but not for the utility files in module_utils. (issue #1020)

  • Test: Fixed exception handling in end2end tests for password rules.

Enhancements:

  • Test: Added tests for Ansible 10. The testing of Ansible 3 was dropped because we can test only one Ansible version on each Python version and we ran out of Python versions.

  • Added a new make target ‘end2end_show’ to show the HMCs defined for end2end tests. (issue #888)

  • Changed safety run for install dependencies to use the exact minimum versions of the dependent packages, by moving them into a separate minimum-constraints-install.txt file that is included by the existing minimum-constraints.txt file. (issue #939)

  • The safety run for all dependencies now must succeed when the test workflow is run for a release (i.e. branch name ‘release_…’).

  • Aded check to the test workflow when running on macos or Ubuntu for whether the ‘xz’ tool is at a version that is affected by CVE-2024-3094.

  • Added support for running the ‘bandit’ checker with a new make target ‘bandit’, and added that to the GitHub Actions test workflow.

  • Dev: Added a final run of the “safety” and “bandit” tools to the “publish” workflow, to ensure that a release cannot happen with any findings.

  • Docs: Improved the short descriptions of the modules. (issue #998)

  • Added a new module zhmc_versions that retrieves facts for HMC/CPC versions and features.

  • Added a new ‘status_timeout’ parameter to the zhmc_lpar module for ‘state=inactive,active,loaded’. (issue #986)

  • Added a new ‘allow_status_exceptions’ parameters to the zhmc_lpar module for ‘state=active,loaded’. For backwards compatibility, its default value is True. (issue #986)

  • Test: Added a separate pylint run (in addition to the one in the Ansible sanity test), because it can be run on the test sources as well, and because the santy test pylint has important checks disabled. (issue #1007)

  • Test: Added virtual storage resource objects to the mocked end2end test environments.

  • Docs: Added a chapter ‘Installing a development version’ that describes how to build and install a development version of the collection from the repo. (issue #1008)

  • Added new Ansible modules ‘zhmc_user_pattern_list’ and ‘zhmc_user_pattern’ for listing and managing user patterns on the HMC. (issue #361)

  • Test: Added end2end tests for adding and removing user roles to/from existing users. (related to issue #716)

  • Added a new Ansible module ‘zhmc_cpc_capacity’ for managing the temporary processor capacity of a CPC. (issue #243)

  • Added new modules ‘zhmc_lpar_command’ and ‘zhmc_partition_command’ for executing an OS consosle command in the OS running in an LPAR or partition. (issue #938)

  • Enabled notification logging via the ‘zhmcclient.jms’ Python logger. (related to issue #938)

Cleanup:

  • Modernized the code to match the minimum Python version 3.8 (use of f-strings, no Python 2 compatibility, ‘mock’ is used from ‘unittest’).

  • Increased versions of GitHub Actions plugins to increase node.js runtime to version 20.

  • Resolved the ‘no-log-needed’ issue raised by the sanity test and ansible-lint on the ‘os_ipl_token’ input parameter of the ‘zhmc_lpar’ module. That allowed to get rid of the corresponding entries in the ignore files. (issue #915)

  • Resolved the ‘return-syntax-error’ issue raised by the sanity test and ansible-lint on all modules that specify generic return properties. That allowed to get rid of the corresponding entries in the ignore files. (issue #915)

  • Test: Upgraded Githubb Actionb plugins that used the deprecated node version 16. (issue #974)

  • Docs: Reduced the number of versions in the generated documentaion to only the latest fix version of each minor version starting with version 1.0.x. (issue #1000)

  • Dev: Suppressed the errors in the Makefile when ansible is not yet installed but the Makefile sets variables that depend on ansible being installed. That situation was handled correctly, but the error messages were confusing.

  • Docs: Adjusted README file to new Ansible Automation Hub requirements. (issue #993)

Version 1.8.1

Released: 2024-01-15

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Addressed collection import issues on AutomationHub.

Version 1.8.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 1.7.4.

Released: 2024-01-15

Availability: Galaxy, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Addressed safety issues up to 2024-01-08.

  • Fixed link to Ansible Galaxy on README page. (issue #785)

  • Fixed that the ‘name’ property was missing in result of the ‘zhmc_nic_list’ module.

  • Development: Added package level to .done files. (issue #799)

  • Logging: Fixed the result name in the log message for module success.

  • Fixed that the ‘zhmc_lpar’ module with state=reset_normal/clear waited for LPAR status “operational” which never happened, by picking up the fix in zhmcclient 1.11.3. (issue #801)

  • In the description of the ‘zhmc_lpar’ module, changed incorrect references to the “acceptable” status to be “exceptions”.

  • Fixed that the ‘zhmc_lpar’ module with state=set when invoked in check mode rejected the property update in status “exceptions”.

  • Fixed and improved the description of the ‘zhmc_lpar’ module for state=active/loaded; cleaned up the code without functional changes.

  • Dev: Pinned voluptuous package to <0.14 on Python < 3.6.

  • Fixed “missing required arguments: b, u, n, d, l, e, _, l, e, v, e, l” error when using the ‘zhmc_console’ or ‘zhmc_cpc’ modules with ‘state=upgrade’. (issue #834)

  • Fixed end2end test for zhmc_cpc_list module that failed when the HMC had unmanaged CPCs or had HMC version 2.14.

  • Fixed KeyError in ‘zhmc_storage_group’ module when used with non-FCP storage groups, and clarified that the artificial properties ‘candidate-adapter-ports’ and ‘virtual-storage-resources’ returned by the module will be empty arrays for non-FCP storage groups. (e.g. NVMe). (issue #864)

  • Fixed that on HMC versions 2.14 and 2.15, the zhmc_adapter_list module failed because it tried to use the “List Permitted Adapters” operation that was added in HMC version 2.16 (actually API version 4.10). (issue #850)

  • Fixed that on HMC versions 2.14 and 2.15, the zhmc_partition_list module failed because it tried to use the ‘additional-properties’ query parameter that was added in HMC version 2.16 (actually API version 4.10). (issue #850)

  • Clarified that Ansible versions below 7 (ansible-core 2.14) are not officially supported, but only supported on a best-can-do basis. As part of that change, the Ansible sanity checks are reduced to run only on officially supported Ansible versions. (issue #784)

  • Corrected the status reported in the log when zhmc_lpar was called with state=active or loaded, and check mode was enabled. (related to issue #851)

  • Clarified in the description of the return parameters of the ‘zhmc_cpc’ module that for state ‘inactive’, an empty dict is returned. (related to issue #851)

  • Clarified in the description of the return parameters of the ‘zhmc_lpar’ module that for state ‘facts’, properties are returned. (related to issue #851)

  • Dev: Fixed the call to pipdeptree in the test workflow to use ‘python -m’ because otherwise it does not show the correct packages of the virtual env.

  • Docs: Increased minimum Sphinx versions to 7.1.0 on Python 3.8 and to 7.2.0 on Python >=3.9 and adjusted dependent package versions in order to fix a version incompatibility between sphinxcontrib-applehelp and Sphinx. Disabled Sphinx runs on Python <=3.7 in order to no longer having to deal with older Sphinx versions. (issue #890)

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Python 3.12. (issue #796)

  • Added support for Ansible 9.

  • Increased minimum version of zhmcclient to 1.13.0 to pick up fixes and functionality.

  • Added new Ansible modules ‘zhmc_lpar_messages’ and ‘zhmc_partition_messages’ that retrieve and return console messages from the operating system running in an LPAR or DPM partition. (issue #565)

  • Added upgrade_timeout parameter to zhmc_console and zhmc_cpc modules.

  • Added a new make target ‘make ansible_lint’ which invokes ansible-lint. Fixed some of the warnings reported by ansible-lint. (related to issue #784)

  • Increased the minimum versions of the following packages used for installing the collection:

    • packaging to 21.3 (on Python >= 3.6)

    • PyYAML to 6.0.1 (on Python >= 3.6)

    • jsonschema to 4.10.0 (on Python >= 3.7)

  • In the ‘zhmc_adapter_list’ module, improved the use of the “Permitted Adapters” operation so that it is now also used when the ‘additional_properties’ module parameter is used and the HMC API version is 4.10 or higher. (related to issue #850)

  • Docs: In the ‘zhmc_lpar_list’ module, clarified that the use of the “List Permitted Logical Partitions” operation does not affect the module result data. (related to issue #850)

  • Docs: In the ‘zhmc_partition_list’ module, clarified that the use of the “List Permitted Partitions” operation does not affect the module result data. (related to issue #850)

  • Added support for mounting and unmounting ISO images to partitions (DPM mode) via new state values ‘iso_mount’ and ‘iso_unmount’ for the ‘zhmc_partition’ module (issue #551)

  • Support for limiting the properties returned by the ‘zhmc_cpc’, ‘zhmc_lpar’ and ‘zhmc_partition’ modules by specifying a new ‘select_properties’ input parameter. (issue #851)

  • Added support for a new make target ‘authors’ that generates an AUTHORS.md file from the git commit history. Added the invocation of ‘make authors’ to the description of how to release a version in the development documentation. (issue #631)

  • Added support for redundant HMC hosts. The ‘hmc_host’ module input parameter can now be specified as a single HMC as before, or as a list of redundant HMCs. The HMC list can be specified as a list type or as a Python string representation of a list in order to accomodate Ansible expressions. (issue #849)

  • The ‘zhmc_session’ module now has an additional module return parameter ‘hmc_host’ which for ‘action=create’ contains the actually used HMC. If you use that module and now start specifying redundant HMCs for ‘action=create’, you need to also change the ‘hmc_host’ parameter of all ibm_zhmc modules that use that session including the ‘zhmc_session’ module with ‘action=delete’, to specify the so returned HMC. If you use that module with a single HMC, no change is needed. (related to issue #849)

  • Test: Added Python 3.8 with latest package levels to normal tests because that is now the minimum version to run Sphinx. (related to issue #890)

  • In the ‘zhmc_lpar_list’ module, added support for the ‘additional_properties’ input parameter. (issue #853)

Cleanup:

  • Removed documentation and test files (except sanity test ignore files) from the collection package that is built, for consistency with the other IBM Z collections and in order to get rid of the dependency to have the doc extractor installed as a dependency to build and install the collection locally.

Version 1.7.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 1.6.1.

Released: 2023-10-09

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Incompatible changes:

  • zhmc_adapter - Fixed the ‘match’ input parameter to have priority over the ‘name’ input parameter. Previously, the ‘name’ parameter had priority if (and only if) an adapter with that name existed. This bug fix changes the behavior if ‘match’ is used and another adapter with the new name already exists: Before this change, the other adapter was used and other input properties were updated in that adapter, which in all likelyhood was not intended because it was not the adapter identified by the ‘match’ parameter. With this change, the adapter identified by the ‘match’ parameter is always used regardless of whether another adapter with that name exists, i.e. the name change in that case will fail.

  • zhmc_crypto_attachment - Now, one of the ‘adapter_count’ or ‘adapter_names’ parameters must be specified. Previously, not providing any of them resulted in a default of adapter_count = -1 (all adapters of the specified crypto type). That made it impossible to properly check for whether both had been specified when dapter_count was specified with its default -1. To use all adapters now, explicitly specify ‘adapter_count: -1’.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed safety issues from 2023-09-15.

  • Test: Circumvented a pip-check-reqs issue by excluding its version 2.5.0.

  • Test: Fixed end2end tests in modules test_zhmc_partition.py, test_zhmc_session.py, and test_zhmc_user.py.

  • Docs: Removed incorrect ‘userid’ property from return value documentation of zhmc_session module.

  • zhmc_partition: Fixed configuration of boot from storage volume. It can now be configured either by setting the ‘boot_storage_volume’ input property to the URI of the boot volume, or by setting the ‘boot_storage_volume_name’ and ‘boot_storage_group_name’ input properties to the name of the boot volume and its storage group, respectively. (issue #640)

  • zhmc_partition: Fixed issue that partitions in ‘paused’ status could not be stopped. As part of that, redesigned the start_partition(), stop_partition() and wait_for_transition_completion() methods to use a simple state machine. This will cause any bad statuses that happen on the way to be raised as exceptions (they were previously returned). (issue #642)

Enhancements:

  • Increased minimum version of zhmcclient to 1.11.2 to pick up fixes for mock support for LDAP Server Definitions, improved mock support for Adapters, and new functionality.

  • Docs: Clarified that firmware upgrades of SE and HMC do nothing and succeed if the firmware was already at the desired bundle level.

  • Test: Clarified in make help that coverage data is added by each test. Enabled end2end test for test coverage.

  • zhmc_ldap_server_definition - Added support for retrieving, creating and deleting LDAP Server Definitions (issue 364).

  • zhmc_ldap_server_definition_list - Added support for listing LDAP Server Definitions (issue 364).

  • zhmc_user_role: Added support for user role permissions based on groups.

  • Added support for requesting full properties with a new “full_properties” input parameter for the list modules. (issue #651)

  • Added support for requesting specific additional properties with a new “additional_properties” input parameter for the zhmc_adapter_list and zhmc_partition_list modules. (issue #651)

  • zhmc_adapter - Added new properties for z15 (nvme related) and z16 (‘network-ports’), and improved the output properties for hipersocket create in check mode.

  • zhmc_adapter - Improved the check mode support: It now recognizes if an adapter gets renamed to another existing adapter and rejects that just as in non-check mode.

  • zhmc_crypto_attachment - The ‘crypto_type’ parameter is now ignored when ‘adapter_names’ is specified. That allows specifying adapter names without having to know their crypto type.

  • Added CHANGELOG.rst file to satisfy requirement for RedHat Automation Hub. For now, it includes release_notes.rst. A transition to fragments-based creation of CHANGELOG.rst is postponed because the unified documentation for the IBM Z set of collections first needs to find a common solution for all of its collections.

  • Added new parameters load_address, load_parameter, clear_indicator, store_status_indicator and timeout for the zhmc_lpar module with state=loaded. (issue #556)

  • Added new parameter timeout for the zhmc_lpar module with state=active. (issue #556)

Cleanup:

  • Test: Changed identification of adapters in end2end test module test_zhmc_adapter_list.py to be based on adapter IDs (PCHIDs) instead of adapter names to accomodate a system on the test floor that currently has that bug.

  • Test: Always provided optional module input parameters in end2end tests. This allows modules to rely on optional parameters being provided with their default values by the calling Ansible environent. Changed the modules to rely on that.

  • Test: Added a check in the Actions test workflow for the module .rst files to be up to date in the PR. (issue #755)

Version 1.6.0

Released: 2306-08-04

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Enhancements:

  • Added support for upgrading HMC firmware to the zhmc_console module and for upgrading the SE firmware to the ibm_cpc module, with a new state value ‘upgrade’. Increased minimum zhmcclient version to 1.10.0 (issue #719)

Version 1.5.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 1.4.1.

Released: 2023-07-18

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Addressed safety issues from 6+7/2023, by increasing ‘requests’ to 2.31.0 on Python >=3.7, and ‘cryptography’ to 41.0.2 on Python >=3.7, and by increasing other packages only needed for development.

  • Fixed issue in the new zhmc_nic_list module that resulted in TypeError.

  • Increased minimum version of cryptography package to 41.0.2 to address an issue.

  • Picked up zhmcclient version 1.9.1 to get fixes. This required upgrading several other packages.

Enhancements:

  • Documented the secret variables needed for the Github Actions workflows.

  • Added support for FCP discovery to the zhmc_storage_group module with a new state ‘discover’. (issue #704)

Version 1.4.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 1.3.1.

Released: 2023-06-22

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Deprecations:

  • Deprecated the ‘expand’ input parameter of the ‘zhmc_user’ module. It had been used to expand URLs to independent objects (user roles, password rule, LDAP server definitions) leading to returning the same objects multiple times when invoking the ‘zhmc_user’ module in a loop. (related to issue #658)

Bug fixes:

  • Test: Fixed a bug when displaying details on failed end2end testcases in test_zhmc_password_rule.py and test_zhmc_user.py.

  • Circumvented the removal of Python 2.7 from the Github Actions plugin setup-python, by using the Docker container python:2.7.18-buster instead, and by adjusting the os_setup.sh script to accomodate the absence of sudo in that container. As part of that, Python 2.7 on macOS is no longer tested.

  • Increased version of cryptography package to 41.0.0 on Python >=3.7.

Enhancements:

  • Dev: Added package dependency checking for the remaining Python-based tools that are used in the development of this colleciton.

  • Added safety checking and addressed any reported issues. (#632)

  • Improved performance of the ‘zhmc_user’ and ‘zhmc_user_role’ modules for ‘state=facts’. (issues #660, #658)

  • The ‘zhmc_user’ module with ‘state=facts’ now returns the artificial name properties always consistent with the presence of the corresponding uri properties. (related to issue #658)

  • Added a new ‘zhmc_session’ module for maintaining the HMC session across playbook/role tasks. This can be used to reduce the number of HMC sessions that is created during playbook execution, to one. Without this module, each ibm_zhmc module invocation creates its own separate HMC session. Along with that, added a new ‘session_id’ input parameter to all existing Ansible modules, that can be provided as an alternative to providing userid and password.

  • Added a troubleshooting section to the docs.

  • Added support for Ansible version 8 (ansible-core 2.15).

  • Added support for “state=facts” to the zhmc_nic module. (issue #671)

  • Added a new zhmc_nic_list module for lising the NICs of a partition. (issue #671)

  • Added a new ‘zhmc_console’ module that provides facts about the targeted HMC. (issue #650)

Cleanup:

  • Increased minimum versions of pip, setuptools, wheel to more recent versions.

Version 1.3.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 1.2.1.

Released: 2023-03-03

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Unpinned Ansible again. It was pinned in version 1.2.0 on each Python version to a different Ansible version in order to broaden the test coverage. The test coverage across Ansible versions is now defined separately from the Ansible versions required for installing the collection.

Enhancements:

  • Added a new module ‘zhmc_user_list’ for listing the HMC users.

Cleanup:

  • Docs/dev: Changed sphinx-versions to use the PEP 440 compliant tag 1.1.3.post2 from our fork.

  • Addressed issues in test workflow reported by Github Actions. (issue #616)

Version 1.2.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 1.1.1.

Released: 2022-12-06

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed that every module invocation created an additional log handler, thus duplicating log entries. This only affected the end2end tests, but not when used in Ansible playbooks. (issue #552)

  • In the zhmc_partition module, fixed that the artificial property ‘boot-storage-volume-name’ was not included in the result. (related to issue #550)

  • In the zhmc_partition module, fixed the support for check mode and added tests. (issue #550)

  • In the zhmc_partition module, added missing z14, z15 and z16 input properties: ‘boot_storage_volume’, ‘boot_storage_volume_name’, ‘boot_load_parameters’, ‘permit_ecc_key_import_functions’, ‘ssc_ipv6_gateway’, ‘secure_boot’, ‘secure_execution’, ‘storage_group_uris’, ‘tape_link_uris’, ‘partition_link_uris’, ‘available_features_list’. (related to issue #550)

  • Test: Added missing z14 partition properties to the mock definition file tests/end2end/mocked_hmc_z14.yaml. (related to issue #550)

  • Fixed a flake8 AttributeError when using importlib-metadata 5.0.0 on Python >=3.7, by pinning importlib-metadata to <5.0.0 on these Python versions.

  • Temporarily disabled the sanity tests on all Ansible 7 (ansible-core 2.14) test environments. See issue #579 for the overall issue.

  • Improved error handling when the zhmcclient_mock module is missing. (issue #574)

  • Made the zhmc_adapter module tolerant against unconfigured FICON adapters to avoid HTTP error 404,4 “Get for Storage Port Properties is not supported for this card type”. (issue #580)

  • Made the zhmc_user module tolerant against unusual cases such as local auth without password rule. (issue #564)

  • Updated the set of supported Ansible versions listed in the Installation section of the documentation to add recent Ansible versions up to Ansible 7.

Enhancements:

  • Added a new ‘zhmc_partition_list’ Ansible module for listing partitions on CPCs in DPM mode. This speeds up execution time compared to obtaining them from the facts returned by ‘zhmc_cpc’. (issue #526)

  • Added support for Ansible 6.0.0 by adding an ignore-2.13.txt file to the sanity tests. (issue #533)

  • Added a new make target ‘end2end_mocked’ that runs the end2end tests against mock environments defined with a new HMC inventory file (mocked_inventory.yaml) and a new HMC vault file (mocked_vault.yaml), and new mock files mocked_z14_classic.yaml and mocked_z14_dpm.yaml. (part of issue #396)

  • Increased the minimum version of zhmcclient to 1.3.3, in order to pick up fixes. (part of issue #396)

  • Added a new module ‘zhmc_password_rule’ that supports creating/updating, deleting, and gathering facts of a password rule on the HMC. (issue #363)

  • Added a new module ‘zhmc_password_rule_list’ that supports listing the names of password rules on the HMC. (issue #363)

  • Added the end2end_mocked tests to the coverage data reported to coveralls.io.

  • Added a new module ‘zhmc_user_role’ that supports creating/updating, deleting, and gathering facts of a user role on the HMC. (issue #362)

  • Added a new module ‘zhmc_user_role_list’ that supports listing the names of user roles on the HMC. (issue #362)

  • Merged function tests into end2end tests to remove duplicate test cases.

  • Removed the restriction that the zhmc_partition_list and zhmc_lpar_list modules were supported only with HMC versions 2.14.0 and newer. These modules are now supprted with all HMC versions (issue #549)

  • Removed the restriction that the ‘se-version’ property in the result of the zhmc_partition_list and zhmc_lpar_list modules was provided only with HMC versions 2.14.1 and newer. The property is now provided with all HMC versions. (issue #549)

  • Added support for ‘reset_clear’ and ‘reset_normal’ state in the zhmc_lpar module to support the “Reset Clear” and “Reset Normal” HMC operations. Along with that, added support for a new optional ‘os_ipl_token’ input parameter to support the respective HMC operation parameter. (issue #556)

  • Added a new ‘zhmc_adapter_list’ Ansible module for listing adapters on CPCs in DPM mode. This speeds up execution time compared to obtaining them from the facts returned by ‘zhmc_cpc’. (issue #576)

  • Improved the error handling of the zhmc_user module when specified user roles, user patterns, password rules, or LDAP server definitions do not exist. (related to issue #564)

  • Increased the set of tested Ansible versions to now include all major versions that are supported, from Ansible 2.9 to Ansible 7.

  • Added tests for Python 3.11.

  • Simplified the publishing of the collection.

  • Stated support for the classic-mode only machine generations z196 / z114 / zEC12 / zBC12.

  • Stated support for machine generation z16 / LinuxONE 4.

  • Upgraded zhmcclient to 1.5.0 to pick up fixes.

Cleanup:

  • Clarified the description of input parameters of the zhmc_lpar module. (part of issue #556)

Version 1.1.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 1.0.3.

Released: 2022-06-01

Availability: AutomationHub, Galaxy, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Added a tag ‘infrastructure’ to the collection metadata (tags field in galaxy.yml) - Ansible Automation Hub requires at least one tag from a standard tag list to be specified.

  • Added “make check” for running “flake8” since the “pep8” that is run as part of the ansible sanity test does not find some issues. Resolved those new issues.

  • Removed the “tools” directory from the temporary archive built for the sanity test, and removed the ignore statements for “tools/os_setup.sh” from the ignore files because the sanity test on AutomationHub tests against the uploaded archive which does not have that script.

  • Fixed the use of incorrectly named attributes and methods in the zhmc_user module, and made the module result in check mode consistent with non-check mode. (issue #507)

  • Test: Added missing env.vars in the pytest invocation for end2end tests.

  • Test: Added missing optional module parameters in the end2end tests.

  • Test: Added support for specifying ‘hmc_auth.ca_certs’ and ‘hmc_auth.verify’ from the ‘hmc_verify_cert’ parameter in the HMC definition file in end2end test cases for zhmc_partition and zhmc_user.

  • Docs: Fixed incorrect input property names in zhmc_user module. (part of issue #514)

  • Test: Fixed failure of sanity test on Python 3.6 due to new CryptographyDeprecationWarning raised by ansible, by pinning cryptography to <37.0.0 on Python 3.6. (issue #518)

  • ‘zhmc_user’ module: Fixed an error for users with LDAP authentication.

  • ‘zhmc_user’ module: Fixed incorrect default properties for users created in check mode.

  • Increased minimum version of zhmcclient from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 in order to pick up fixes and new functionality.

Enhancements:

  • Test: Made end2end testing compatible with zhmcclient.testutils support using an Ansible compatible HMC inventory file and an Ansible compatible HMC vault file. The default HMC inventory file is now ~/.zhmc_inventory.yaml and can be changed using the TESTINVENTORY env. var. The default HMC vault file is now ~/.zhmc_vault.yaml and can be changed using the TESTVAULT env. var. The default HMC or group to run the end2end tests against is now ‘default’ and can be changed using the TESTHMC env. var.

  • Test: Added support for a TESTCASES env.var for filtering testcases with the pytest -k option.

  • Added support for specifying user roles as input in the zhmc_user module. User roles can now be specified with their names. They had been displayed on users before. (issue #514)

  • Removed check in zhmc_user module for required input properties ‘type’ and ‘authentication_type’ because for updating existing users they are not needed, and for creating new users, the HMC checks these. (part of issue #514)

Version 1.0.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 0.10.1.

Released: 2022-04-08

Availability: Galaxy, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed new Pylint issues reported by Pylint 2.9 and 2.10.

  • Improved handling of exceptions when creation of zhmcclient.Session fails. (issue #451)

  • Added support for Python 3.10, but needed to exclude the Ansible sanity test for the time being, since it does not yet support Python 3.10.

  • Increased the minimum versions of the requests, cryptography, and PyYAML packages due to fixes requires for Python 3.10, and also due to the new package dependency resolver in Pip.

  • Added support for Ansible 5.0.

  • Increased minimum version of zhmcclient from 0.31.0 to 1.2.0 in order to pick up fixes and new functionality.

  • Docs: Increased minimum version of Sphinx to 4.1.0 to fix an issue with renamed filters in Jinja2 3.1.0.

  • Docs/dev: Pinned voluptous to <0.13.0 on Python 2.7. Increased sphinx-versions to 1.1.3.post-am2 for fix for Click 8.1.0. (issue #488)

Enhancements:

  • Added a new zhmc_lpar Ansible module for managing LPARs on CPCs in classic mode. (issue #418)

  • Added state values ‘active’ and ‘inactive’ to the zhmc_cpc Ansible module for activating/starting and deactivating/stopping CPCs in their current operational mode. (issue #418)

Version 0.10.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 0.9.2.

Released: 2021-06-17

Availability: Galaxy, GitHub

Incompatible changes:

  • The new support for verifying HMC certificates will by default verify the HMC certificate using the “Mozilla CA Certificate List” provided by the ‘certifi’ Python package, causing self-signed HMC certificates to be rejected. The verification behavior can be controlled with the new ‘ca_certs’ and ‘verify’ sub-parameters of the ‘hmc_auth’ module parameter of each module.

Bug fixes:

  • Docs: In the development section of the docs, fixes and improvements for the descriptions of releasing a version and starting a new version (issues #344 and #345).

  • Docs: The docs is now always built from the master branch, and the versions to be generated is now automatically determined from the Git tags and branches. This fixes a possible inconsistency in the versions included and build parameters used, between stable branch and master branch (issue #350).

  • Mitigated the coveralls HTTP status 422 by pinning coveralls-python to <3.0.0.

  • Fixed the condition for whether to run the Ansible sanity test and fixed issues reported by it. (issue #377 and others)

  • Docs: Fixed the text for the Ansible Module Index in the bibliography to state it applies to Ansible 2.9 and fixed the link to reference the 2.9 version instead of the latest version. Added a bibliography entry for the Ansible Collection Index for Ansible 2.10 and later.

  • Docs: Pinned Sphinx to <4.0 to circumvent the issue that sphinx-versions uses the deprecated Sphinx.add_stylesheet() method that was removed in Sphinx 4.0. (issue #402)

  • Test: Added sanity test ignore file for ansible-core 2.11 and fixed some Pylint issues to pass the test.

  • Docs: Fixed link to ibm_zhmc samples playbooks.

  • Docs: Fixed error during automatic docs build when two PRs are merged to master shortly one after another. The last one finishing the docs build now wins. Since PRs are merged in the order earlier first, their docs build should also finish first. (issue #417)

  • Docs: Fixed instructions to release a version to cover for the case where the docs build does not show the new verison in the release notes.

Enhancements:

  • Docs: The idempotency of each module and possible limitations are now described for each module. (issue #375)

  • Increased minimum version of zhmcclient to 0.31.0 in order to have the support for certificate verification and to pick up fixes.

  • Added support for verifying HMC certificates by adding module sub-parameters ‘ca_certs’ and ‘verify’ to the ‘hmc_auth’ module parameter of all modules. (issue #401)

  • Changed module input parameter ‘hmc_auth.userid’ to no longer be hidden in logs, for better debugging. The password is still hidden in any logs.

  • Docs: Stated that ansible-core 2.11 is supported.

  • Increased the minimum version of zhmcclient to 0.31.0.

Cleanup:

  • Renamed “Bibliography” page to “Resources” and removed common Ansible links from that page to better fit the unified documentation for the IBM Z collections.

  • Accomodated the immutable properties introduced with zhmcclient 0.31.0.

  • Docs: The documentation is now built for all versions since 0.9.0 and for the master branch. This change added the update versions before the latest update version within each minor version, and removed the latest stable branch stable_M.N.

Version 0.9.0

This version contains all fixes up to version 0.8.3.

Released: 2020-12-14

Availability: Galaxy, GitHub

Incompatible changes:

  • Starting with version 0.9.0, the zhmc Ansible modules are no longer distributed as the zhmc-ansible-modules package on Pypi, but as the ibm.ibm_zhmc collection on Ansible Galaxy. The installation of the zhmc Ansible modules is now done with:

    ansible-galaxy collection install ibm.ibm_zhmc

    Playbooks using the zhmc Ansible modules do not need to be changed, other than adding a “collections” property that includes the “ibm.ibm_zhmc” collection:

    ---
- hosts: localhost
  collections:
  - ibm.ibm_zhmc
  tasks:
  - ...

  • Fixed the ‘version_added’ field in the module description to no longer indicate the version of this module collection package, but instead the minimum Ansible version supported, consistent with the definition of that field. Since Ansible Galaxy supports Ansible 2.9 and above, the field now shows 2.9 for all modules.

Bug fixes:

  • Increased minimum version of flake8 to 3.7.0 due to difficulties with recognizing certain ‘noqa’ statements. This required explicitly specifying its dependent pycodestyle and pyflakes packages with their minimum versions, because the dependency management did not work with our minimum package versions.

  • Fixed issues with parameters in exception messages raised in zhmc_storage_group and zhmc_user.

  • Fixed AttributeError when using the zhmc_adapter module to create a HiperSockets adapter. (see issue #141)

  • Fixed ParameterError raised when creating NICs on CNA adapter ports.

  • Docs: In the description of the module return data, added samples and fixed errors in the described structure of return data for the modules zhmc_adapter, zhmc_cpc, zhmc_storage_group and zhmc_user.

Enhancements:

  • Added end2end test support, against real HMCs.

  • Added a new module zhmc_user for managing users on the HMC.

  • Dropped the use of pbr for this package.

  • Added support for Python 3.7 and 3.8, dropped support for Python 3.4. Removed old circumventions for Travis issues.

  • Updated maintainer list.

  • Promoted package from Alpha to Beta and status of modules from preview to stable.

  • In the zhmc_nic module, updated the definition of NIC properties to the z15 machine generation. This makes the ‘mac_address’ property writeable, and adds the ‘vlan_type’, ‘function_number’ and ‘function_range’ properties.

  • Added support in the zhmc_crypto_attachment module for specifying crypto adapters by name instead of just their count. (See issue #187)

  • Migrated from Travis and Appveyor to GitHub Actions. This required several changes in package dependencies for development.

  • Clarified that the zhmc_cpc module can be used for CPCs in any operational mode. Previously, the documentation stated DPM mode as a prerequisite. Added support to the zhmc_cpc module for updating several classic-mode-only properties.

Cleanup:

  • Removed the page describing common return values, because all return values are specifically described on the module pages without referencing any common return value type.

  • zhmc_cpc: Added an artificial property ‘storage-groups’ to the output that shows the storage groups attached to the partition, with only a subset of their properties.

  • zhmc_partition: Added an artificial property ‘storage-groups’ to the output that shows the storage groups attached to the partition, with all of their properties and artificial properties as in the result of zhmc_storage_group. This is enabled by the new boolean input parameter ‘expand_storage_groups’.

  • zhmc_partition: Added an artificial property ‘crypto-adapters’ to the ‘crypto-configuration’ property, showing the adapter properties of the crypto adapters attached to the partition, with all of their properties and artificial properties as in the result of zhmc_adapter. This is enabled by the new boolean input parameter ‘expand_crypto_adapters’.

  • zhmc_partition: Added artificial properties to the ‘nics’ property:

    • ‘adapter-name’: Name of the adapter backing the NIC

    • ‘adapter-port’: Port index on the adapter backing the NIC

    • ‘adapter-id’: Adapter ID (PCHID) of the adapter backing the NIC

  • Examples: Added an example playbook ‘get_cpc_io.yml’ which retrieves information about a CPC in DPM mode and its I/O configuration and creates a markdown file showing the result.

  • Dev: Changed make targets and adjusted to directory structure compatible with Ansible collections, and for publishing on Ansible Galaxy.

  • Moved the sample playbooks to the common IBM Z Ansible Collection Samples repository: https://github.com/IBM/z_ansible_collections_samples/

Version 0.8.0

Released: 2019-04-02

Availability: Pypi, GitHub

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed an issue in the zhmc_crypto_attachment module where the incorrect crypto adapter was picked, leading to a subsequent crypto conflict when starting the partition. See issue #112.

Enhancements:

  • Improved the quaity of error messages in the zhmc_crypto_attachment module.

Version 0.7.0

Released: 2019-02-20

Availability: Pypi, GitHub

Incompatible changes:

  • Temporarily disabled the retrieval of full properties in the result data of the zhmc_adapter module.

Bug fixes:

  • Docs: Fixed change log of 0.6.0 (see the 0.6.0 section below).

Enhancements:

  • Renovated the logging: - Added support for the log_file parameter to all modules. - Changed the format of the log lines. - Set log level also when no log_file is specified, causing the logs to be propagated to the root logger.

Version 0.6.0

Released: 2019-01-07

Availability: Pypi, GitHub

Fixed this change log in 0.6.1 and 0.7.0

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed dependency to zhmcclient package to be >=0.20.0, instead of using its master branch from the github repo.

  • Updated the ‘requests’ package to 2.20.0 to fix the following vulnerability: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18074

  • Added support for Python 3.7. This required increasing the minimum version of Ansible from 2.2.0.0 to 2.4.0.0. This also removes the dependency on the ‘pycrypto’ package, which has vulnerabilities and is no longer maintained since 2013. Ansible uses the ‘cryptography’ package, instead. See issue #66.

  • The crypto_number property of Adapter is an integer property, and thus the Ansible module zhmc_adapter needs to change the string passed by Ansible back to an integer. It did that correctly but only for the properties input parameter, and not for the match input parameter. The type conversions are now applied for all properties of Adapter also for the match parameter.

  • The dictionary to check input properties for the zhmc_cpc module had the acceptable_status property written with a hyphen instead of underscore. This had the effect that it was rejected as non-writeable when specifying it as input.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for managing CPCs by adding a zhmc_cpc Ansible module. The module allows setting writeable properties of a CPC in an idempotent way, and to gather facts for a CPC (i.e. all of its properties including a few artificial ones). See issue #82.

  • Added support for managing adapters by adding a zhmc_adapter Ansible module. The module allows setting writeable properties of an adapter, changing the adapter type for FICON Express adapters, and changing the crypto type for Crypto Express adapters, all in an idempotent way. It also allows gathering facts for an adapter (i.e. all of its properties# including a few artificial ones). See issue #83.

  • Added a zhmc_crypto_attachment Ansible module, which manages the attachment of crypto adapters and of crypto domains to partitions in an idempotent way. This was already supported in a less flexible and non-idempotent way by the zhmc_partition Ansible module.

  • Added support for adjusting the value of the ssc_ipv4_gateway input property for the zhmc_partition module to None if specified as the empty string. This allows defaulting the value more easily in playbooks.

  • Docs: Improved and fixed the documentation how to release a version and how to start a new version.

Version 0.5.0

Released: 2018-10-24

Availability: Pypi, GitHub

Incompatible changes:

  • Changed ‘make setup’ back to ‘make develop’ for consistency with the other zhmcclient projects.

Bug fixes:

  • Several fixes in the make process and package dependencies.

  • Synced package dependencies with zhmcclient project.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for DPM storage groups, attachments and volumes, by adding new modules ‘zhmc_storage_group’, ‘zhmc_storage_group_attachment’, and ‘zhmc_storage_volume’. Added several playbooks as examples.

Version 0.4.0

Availability: Pypi, GitHub

Released: 2018-03-15

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed the bug that a TypeError was raised when setting the ‘ssc_dns_servers’ property for a Partition. The property value is a list of strings, and lists of values were not supported previously. Extended the function test cases for partitions accordingly. (Issue #34).

  • Fixed that the “type” property for Partitions could not be specified. It is valid for Partition creation, and the only restriction is that its value cannot be changed once the Partition exists. Along with fixing the logic for such create-only properties, the same issue was also fixed for the adapter port related properties of HBAs. (Issue #31).

  • Improved the logic for handling create+update properties in case the resource does not exist, such that they are no longer updated in addition to being set during creation. The logic still supports updating as an alternative if the resource does not exist, for update-only properties (e.g. several properties in Partitions). (Fixed as part of issue #31).

  • Fixed the issue that a partition in “terminated” or “paused” status could not be made absent (i.e. deleted). Now, the partition is stopped which should bring it into “stopped” status, and then deleted. (Issue #29).

Enhancements:

  • Added get_facts.py script to examine usage of the Ansible 2.0 API.

  • Added support for gathering partition and child facts. The fact support is invoked by specifying state=facts. The fact support is implemented by returning the partition properties in the result. The returned partition properties are enriched by adding properties ‘hbas’, ‘nics’, ‘virtual-functions’ that are a list of the properties of the respective child elements of that partition. (Issue #32).

Version 0.3.0

Released: 2017-08-16

Availability: Pypi, GitHub

Incompatible changes:

Deprecations:

Bug fixes:

Enhancements:

  • Added support for specifying integer-typed and float-typed properties of Partitions, NICs, HBAs, and VFs also as decimal strings in the module input.

  • Specifying string typed properties of Partitions, NICs, HBAs, and VFs with Unicode characters no longer performs an unnecessary property update.

Dependencies:

  • Increased minimum Ansible release from 2.0.0.1 to 2.2.0.0.

  • Upgraded zhmcclient requirement to 0.15.0

Version 0.2.0

Released: 2017-07-20

Availability: Pypi, GitHub

This is the initial release.