zhmc_user_role_list – List HMC user roles

Synopsis

  • List user roles on the HMC.

Requirements

  • The HMC userid must have object-access permission to the target user roles, or task permission to the ‘Manage User Roles’ task.

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. This is mutually exclusive with providing session_id.

required: False
type: str
password

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

required: False
type: str
session_id

HMC session ID to be used. This is mutually exclusive with providing userid and password and can be created as described in zhmc_session – Manage HMC sessions across tasks.

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 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
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 user roles
  zhmc_user_role_list:
    hmc_host: "{{ my_hmc_host }}"
    hmc_auth: "{{ my_hmc_auth }}"
  register: urole_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
user_roles

The list of user roles, with a subset of their properties.

returned: success
type: list
elements: dict
sample:
[
    {
        "name": "Standard",
        "type": "system-defined"
    },
    {
        "name": "role 1",
        "type": "user-defined"
    }
]
name

User role name

type: str
type

Type of the user role (‘system-defined’, ‘user-defined’)

type: str