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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Query the softlayer account for info about all of the bare metal servers and
+# put the info in mkdef stanza format, so the node can be defined in the xcat db
+# so that xcat can manage/deploy them.
+
+try:
+    import sys
+    import pprint
+    import argparse
+    import SoftLayer
+except ImportError as e:
+    print 'Error: install missing python module before running this command: '+str(e)
+    sys.exit(2)
+
+# Process the cmd line args
+# --help is automatically provided by this
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Query your SoftLayer account and get attributes for each bare metal server. The attributes can be piped to 'mkdef -z' to define the nodes in the xCAT DB so that xCAT can manage them.  getslnodes requires a .softlayer file in your home directory that contains your SoftLayer username, api_key, and optionally endpoint_url.")
+parser.add_argument('hnmatch', metavar='hostname-match', nargs='?', help='Select servers that include this partial hostname.')
+parser.add_argument('-v', "--verbose", action="store_true", help="display verbose output")
+args = parser.parse_args()
+hnmatch = args.hnmatch     # if they specified a hostname match, only show svrs that start with that
+
+# Get info from softlayer
+try:
+    # username, api_key, endpoint_url come from the .softlayer file
+    client = SoftLayer.Client()
+
+    mask = "hostname, fullyQualifiedDomainName, manufacturerSerialNumber, \
+            operatingSystem.id, operatingSystem.passwords.username, operatingSystem.passwords.password, \
+            remoteManagementAccounts.username, remoteManagementAccounts.password, remoteManagementComponent.ipmiIpAddress, \
+            primaryBackendNetworkComponent.primaryIpAddress, primaryBackendNetworkComponent.macAddress"
+    # If they specified hnmatch, it would be faster to have softlayer filter the response with something like:
+    # filter={'hardware': {'hostname': {'operation': '*= '+hostname}, 'domain': {'operation': '*= '+domain}}}
+    # But those 2 operations are ANDed together, so it will not work.  And currently, filtering does not work on fullyQualifiedDomainName.
+    servers = client['Account'].getHardware(mask=mask)
+    if args.verbose:  pprint.pprint(servers)
+except SoftLayer.exceptions.SoftLayerAPIError as e:
+    print 'Error: '+str(e)
+
+# print info out in xcat node stanza format    
+for server in servers:
+    if hnmatch and server['fullyQualifiedDomainName'].find(hnmatch) == -1:  continue
+    print "\n"+server['hostname']+":"
+    print "\tobjtype=node"
+    print "\tgroups=slnode,ipmi,all"
+    print "\tmgt=ipmi"
+    print "\tbmc="+server['remoteManagementComponent']['ipmiIpAddress']
+
+    # I have seen svrs with no remoteManagementAccounts entries
+    if len(server['remoteManagementAccounts']):
+        print "\tbmcusername="+server['remoteManagementAccounts'][0]['username']
+        print "\tbmcpassword="+server['remoteManagementAccounts'][0]['password']
+
+    print "\tip="+server['primaryBackendNetworkComponent']['primaryIpAddress']
+    print "\tmac="+server['primaryBackendNetworkComponent']['macAddress']
+    print "\tserial="+server['manufacturerSerialNumber']
+    print "\tnetboot=xnba"
+    print "\tarch=x86_64"
+
+    # Find the root or Administrator username and pw
+    username = None
+    password = None
+    for entry in server['operatingSystem']['passwords']:
+        if entry['username'] == 'root' or entry['username'] == 'Administrator':
+            # found it
+            username = entry['username']
+            password = entry['password']
+            break
+        elif not username:
+            # save the 1st entry, in case we never find root or Administrator
+            username = entry['username']
+            password = entry['password']
+    if username and password:  userStr = ", user:"+username+", pw:"+password
+    print "\tusercomment=hostname:"+server['fullyQualifiedDomainName']+userStr
+sys.exit(0)
+
+
+def verbose(text):
+    '''Print msg only if -v was specified.'''
+    if args.verbose:  print text
+