OVERVIEW

This python script is designed to output all LPARs from the IBM HMC console in JSON format. This JSON output can be used as a inventory source for Ansible to run playbooks.

Currently the script will only create a single group called lpars and within that group it will populate all of the LPARs found within your HMC. Additionally for each LPAR found the script will assign the variable ansible_host with the value of the IP of the LPAR, if no IP is found it will assign the lpar name for the ansible_host value.

CONFIGURATION All connection information is passed through envrionment variables. Below are the envrionment variables that will need to be set:

hmchostname - The ip/hostname of the HMC API endpoint
hmc_port - The port the API is accessible from (defaults to 443)
hmcuser - The username to login
hmcpassword - The password for the user you are logging in as
verify_ssl - Whether you want to verify the SSL connection to the endpoint (if not set, defaults to false)

Python Libraries requires -
xmltodict
json
urllib3
requests
argparse
socket