Users Guide

Overview

Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules allows data center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate

the configuration, deployment, and update of Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (12th generation of PowerEdge servers and later) and

modular infrastructure by leveraging the management automation capabilities in-built into the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

(iDRAC) and OpenManage Enterprise (OME) respectively.

With the latest release of Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules, the capabilities have improved with support for OpenManage

Enterprise. OpenManage Ansible Modules simplifies and automates provisioning, deployment, and updates of PowerEdge servers and

modular infrastructure. It allows system administrators and software developers to introduce the physical infrastructure provisioning into

their software provisioning stack, integrate with existing DevOps pipelines and manage their infrastructure using version-controlled

playbooks, server configuration profiles, and templates in line with the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles.

This user guide provides information about using Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules and its different use cases.

The latest stable version of OpenManage Ansible Modules is available at dell.com/support. In addition to dell.com/support, you can

download Ansible modules from https://github.com/dell/dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules/tree/master. Dell EMC supports modules

that are downloaded from this GitHub location only.

Topics:

• Key Features

• What's new?

Key Features

The key features in OpenManage Ansible Modules are:

• Support for updating firmware and managing storage volume configuration using standard Redfish URIs supported by iDRAC.

• Support for managing network, proxy, web server and time configurations.

• Support for creating, modifying or deleting single identity pool.

• Support for creating a firmware baseline or catalog.

• Retrieve baseline and baseline compliance details.

• Support for creating, modifying or deleting a user account.

• Perform the supported power state management operations on devices managed by OME.

• Support for creating, modifying, deploying, exporting, importing and cloning a template.

• Get the list and details of all user accounts or of a specific account.

• Get the list and details of templates or of a specific template.

• Support for firmware update of PowerEdge devices and all its components.

• Support for retrieving job details for a given job ID or the entire job queue.

• Support for retrieving the list of all devices with the exhaustive inventory of each device.

• Export a server configuration profile (SCP) containing either the entire server configuration or component level configuration (iDRAC,

BIOS, RAID, NIC) to a local file path on Ansible controller or a remote network share.

• Import an SCP from a local file path on Ansible controller or a remote network share.

• Support for configuration of BIOS, Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), NIC, and RAID.

• Support for firmware update using a firmware repository hosted on CIFS, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP shares.

• Support for viewing firmware inventory details.

• Support for Windows, Linux, and ESXi operating system deployments.

• Support for configuring power controls, resetting iDRAC, viewing Lifecycle Controller (LC) job status, deleting LC job, deleting LC job

queue, exporting LC logs, and configuring system lockdown mode.

• Retrieve the system inventory details.

NOTE: These features are supported only on iDRAC with enterprise license.

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