Users Guide

Overview

Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules allows Data Center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the

conguration, deployment, and update of Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (12th generation of PowerEdge servers and later) by leveraging

the management automation capabilities in-built into the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC).

This user guide provides information about using Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules version 1.0.1 and its dierent use cases.

In addition to dell.com/support, Ansible modules can also be downloaded from https://github.com/dell/Dell-EMC-Ansible-Modules-for-

iDRAC. Modules downloaded from this Github location are supported by Dell EMC.

Key Features

The key features in OpenManage Ansible Modules version 1.0.1 are:

• Export a server conguration prole (SCP) of Basic Input Output System (BIOS), Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID),

Network Interface Controller (NIC), and so on, to a local le path or a network share.

• Import an SCP from a local le path or a network share.

• Support for conguration of BIOS, integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), NIC, and RAID.

• Support for rmware update.

• Support for viewing rmware inventory details.

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

• Support for conguring power controls, resetting iDRAC, viewing LC job status, deleting LC job, deleting LC job queue, exporting LC

logs, and conguring system lockdown mode.

• Retrieve the system inventory details.

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