HMC

Originally posted by: Dominic_Schweizer

Hi There,

I have automated everything with powervc to create an LPAR. Now the last thing to do is rename the lpar (without these UUIDs) and rename the profile. But my first priority is to rename the lparname.

My Rest Call is as follow to rename the Lpar:

curl -k -c cookies.txt -b cookies.txt -i -H "Content-Type: application/vnd.ibm.powervm.uom+xml; Type=LogicalPartition" -H "Accept: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8" -X POST -H "Expect:" -d @partitionname.xml https://hmc301.eng.zkb.ch:12443/rest/api/uom/LogicalPartition/2FBD8BF1-C3D1-41BA-8A38-B44D4F9D1BBE

--> the ID at the end is the lpar UUID...

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my xml body is the following:

<LogicalPartition:LogicalPartition xmlns:LogicalPartition="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/systems/power/firmware/uom/mc/2012_10/" xmlns="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/systems/power/firmware/uom/mc/2012_10/" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace/k2":PartitionProfiles schemaVersion="V1_7_0">
    <Metadata>
        <Atom/>
    </Metadata>
        <PartitionName kxe="false" kb="CUR">aix9020.eng</PartitionName>
</LogicalPartition:LogicalPartition>

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I have always Problems with the first xml element <LogicalPartition:LogicalPartition>. There seems to be always an error....with xml parsing, i think my xml body is not good enough....

1. error i had was:

The content of element 'LogicalPartition:LogicalPartition' is not complete

2. error i had after a little modification:

LogicalPartition" must be followed by either attribute specifications, "&gt;" or "/&gt;"

........

Can you provide me a rest call and a xml body to rename the lparname, or do you see what i did wrong?

Hope u can help me!

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Dominic

Originally posted by: Sridevi Joshi

The error "The content of element 'LogicalPartition:LogicalPartition' is not complete" comes because it expects the other mandatory elements like 'PartitionProcessorConfiguration' , 'PartitionType' etc.

Always perform the GET on the resource(in this case LogicalPartition), Modify the content as desired and then perform POST operation.

To modify the Partition name please perform below steps.

1. Perform GET using below curl command

curl -k  -c cookies.txt -b cookies.txt  -i -H "Content-Type: application/vnd.ibm.powervm.uom+xml; Type=LogicalPartition" -H "Accept: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8" -X GET  https://hmc301.eng.zkb.ch:12443/rest/api/uom/LogicalPartition/2FBD8BF1-C3D1-41BA-8A38-B44D4F9D1BBE

2. Copy the response from <LogicalPartition:LogicalPartition> to </LogicalPartition:LogicalPartition> and save it in partitionname.xml

3. Edit the xml to modify the <PartitionName> attribute with desired name and save.

4. Now perform the curl command which was used earlier.

curl -k -c cookies.txt -b cookies.txt -i -H "Content-Type: application/vnd.ibm.powervm.uom+xml; Type=LogicalPartition" -H "Accept: application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8" -X POST -H "Expect:" -d @partitionname.xml https://hmc301.eng.zkb.ch:12443/rest/api/uom/LogicalPartition/2FBD8BF1-C3D1-41BA-8A38-B44D4F9D1BBE

This will modify the Partition name with desired name.

Originally posted by: Dominic_Schweizer

Hi Sridevi Joshi

Thank you very much for your quick reply!

It worked! so great.. you are my hero :-)

Wish you a wonderful day!

Cheers

Dominic