ibm_sa_host - Adds hosts to or removes them from IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage systems.

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis

• This module adds hosts to or removes them from IBM Spectrum Accelerate storage systems.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• python >= 2.7
• pyxcli

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
cluster		The name of the cluster to include the host.
domain		The domains the cluster will be attached to. To include more than one domain, separate domain names with commas. To include all existing domains, use an asterisk ("*").
endpoints required		The hostname or management IP of Spectrum Accelerate storage system.
host required		Host name.
iscsi_chap_name		The host's CHAP name identifier
iscsi_chap_secret		The password of the initiator used to authenticate to the system when CHAP is enable
password required		Password for username on the spectrum accelerate storage system.
state required	Choices: present ← absent	Host state.
username required		Management user on the spectrum accelerate storage system.

Notes

Note

• This module requires pyxcli python library. Use ‘pip install pyxcli’ in order to get pyxcli.

Examples

- name: Define new host.
  ibm_sa_host:
    host: host_name
    state: present
    username: admin
    password: secret
    endpoints: hostdev-system

- name: Delete host.
  ibm_sa_host:
    host: host_name
    state: absent
    username: admin
    password: secret
    endpoints: hostdev-system

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

• Tzur Eliyahu (tzure@il.ibm.com)

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