zhmc_nic – Create NICs in partitions

Synopsis

  • Create, update, or delete a NIC (virtual Network Interface Card) in a partition of a CPC (Z system).

  • Note that the Ansible module zhmc_partition can be used to gather facts about existing NICs of a partition.

Requirements

  • Access to the WS API of the HMC of the targeted Z system (see HMC API).

  • The targeted Z system must be in the Dynamic Partition Manager (DPM) operational mode.

Parameters

hmc_host

The hostname or IP address of the HMC.

required: True
type: str
hmc_auth

The authentication credentials for the HMC.

required: True
type: dict
userid

The userid (username) for authenticating with the HMC.

required: True
type: str
password

The password for authenticating with the HMC.

required: True
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 ca_certs parameter. If False, ignore what is specified in the ca_certs parameter and do not verify the HMC certificate.

required: False
type: bool
default: True
cpc_name

The name of the CPC with the partition containing the NIC.

required: True
type: str
partition_name

The name of the partition containing the NIC.

required: True
type: str
name

The name of the target NIC that is managed. If the NIC needs to be created, this value becomes its name.

required: True
type: str
state

The desired state for the NIC. All states are fully idempotent within the limits of the properties that can be changed:

  • absent: Ensures that the NIC does not exist in the specified partition.

  • present: Ensures that the NIC exists in the specified partition and has the specified properties.

required: True
type: str
choices: absent, present
properties

Dictionary with input properties for the NIC, for state=present. Key is the property name with underscores instead of hyphens, and value is the property value in YAML syntax. Integer properties may also be provided as decimal strings. Will be ignored for state=absent.

The possible input properties in this dictionary are the properties defined as writeable in the data model for NIC resources (where the property names contain underscores instead of hyphens), with the following exceptions:

  • name: Cannot be specified because the name has already been specified in the name module parameter.

  • network_adapter_port_uri and virtual_switch_uri: Cannot be specified because this information is specified using the artificial properties adapter_name and adapter_port.

  • adapter_name: The name of the adapter that has the port backing the target NIC. Used for all adapter families (ROCE, OSA, Hipersockets).

  • adapter_port: The port index of the adapter port backing the target NIC. Used for all adapter families (ROCE, OSA, Hipersockets).

Properties omitted in this dictionary will remain unchanged when the NIC already exists, and will get the default value defined in the data model for NICs when the NIC is being created.

required: False
type: dict
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: Ensure NIC exists in the partition
  zhmc_partition:
    hmc_host: "{{ my_hmc_host }}"
    hmc_auth: "{{ my_hmc_auth }}"
    cpc_name: "{{ my_cpc_name }}"
    partition_name: "{{ my_partition_name }}"
    name: "{{ my_nic_name }}"
    state: present
    properties:
      adapter_name: "OSD 0128 A13B-13"
      adapter_port: 0
      description: "The port to our data network"
      device_number: "023F"
  register: nic1

- name: Ensure NIC does not exist in the partition
  zhmc_partition:
    hmc_host: "{{ my_hmc_host }}"
    hmc_auth: "{{ my_hmc_auth }}"
    cpc_name: "{{ my_cpc_name }}"
    partition_name: "{{ my_partition_name }}"
    name: "{{ my_nic_name }}"
    state: absent

Return Values

changed

Indicates if any change has been made by the module. For state=facts, always will be false.

returned: always
type: bool
msg

An error message that describes the failure.

returned: failure
type: str
nic

For state=absent, an empty dictionary.

For state=present, the resource properties of the NIC after any changes.

returned: success
type: dict
sample:
{
    "adapter-id": "128",
    "adapter-name": "OSD_128_MGMT_NET2_30",
    "adapter-port": 0,
    "class": "nic",
    "description": "HAMGMT",
    "device-number": "0004",
    "element-id": "5956e97a-f433-11ea-b67c-00106f239d19",
    "element-uri": "/api/partitions/32323df4-f433-11ea-b67c-00106f239d19/nics/5956e97a-f433-11ea-b67c-00106f239d19",
    "mac-address": "02:d2:4d:80:b9:88",
    "name": "HAMGMT0",
    "parent": "/api/partitions/32323df4-f433-11ea-b67c-00106f239d19",
    "ssc-ip-address": null,
    "ssc-ip-address-type": null,
    "ssc-management-nic": false,
    "ssc-mask-prefix": null,
    "type": "osd",
    "virtual-switch-uri": "/api/virtual-switches/db2f0bec-e578-11e8-bd0a-00106f239c31",
    "vlan-id": null,
    "vlan-type": null
}
name

NIC name

type: str
{property}

Additional properties of the NIC, as described in the data model of the ‘NIC’ element object of the ‘Partition’ object in the HMC API book. The property names have hyphens (-) as described in that book.