purestorage.flasharray.purefa_directory module – Manage FlashArray File System Directories

Note

This module is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.39.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install purestorage.flasharray. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_directory.

New in purestorage.flasharray 1.5.0

Synopsis

  • Create/Delete FlashArray File Systems

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.3

  • purestorage >= 1.19

  • py-pure-client >= 1.26.0

  • netaddr

  • requests

  • pycountry

  • urllib3

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_token

string

FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.

context

string

added in purestorage.flasharray 1.39.0

Name of fleet member on which to perform the operation.

This requires the array receiving the request is a member of a fleet and the context name to be a member of the same fleet.

Default: ""

disable_warnings

boolean

added in purestorage.flasharray 1.29.0

Disable insecure certificate warnings in debug logs

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

fa_url

string

FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.

filesystem

string / required

Name of the filesystem the directory links to.

name

string / required

Name of the directory

path

string

Path of the managed directory in the file system

If not provided will default to name

rename

string

Value to rename the specified directory to

state

string

Define whether the directory should exist or not.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purestorage and py-pure-client Python libraries.

  • Additional Python libraries may be required for specific modules.

  • You must set PUREFA_URL and PUREFA_API environment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly.

Examples

- name: Create direcotry foo in filesysten bar with path zeta
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_directory:
    name: foo
    filesystem: bar
    path: zeta
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Rename directory foo to fin in filesystem bar
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_directory:
    name: foo
    rename: fin
    filesystem: bar
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Delete diectory foo in filesystem bar
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_directory:
    name: foo
    filesystem: bar
    state: absent
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

Authors

  • Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley)