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 and its dierent use cases.

In addition to dell.com/support, you can download Ansible modules from https://github.com/dell/Dell-EMC-Ansible-Modules-for-iDRAC.

Modules that are downloaded from this GitHub location are supported by Dell EMC.

Topics:

• Key Features

• What's new?

Key Features

The key features in OpenManage Ansible Modules are:

• Export a server conguration prole (SCP) containing either the entire server conguration or component level conguration (iDRAC,

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

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

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

• Support for rmware update using a Firmware Repository hosted on a remote network share.

• Support for viewing rmware inventory details.

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

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

queue, exporting LC logs, and conguring system lockdown mode.

• Retrieve the system inventory details.

NOTE

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

What's new?

• Added support for streaming the Server Conguration Prole (SCP) within the HTTP or HTTPS messages for import or export

operation to/from an iDRAC using Local le path on Ansible controller.

• A new and feature rich Storage Volume module (dellemc_idrac_storage_volume) to:

– Support RAID volume creation on BOSS Controller.

– View all the volumes for a RAID controller.

– Create multiple RAID volumes on a storage controller using a single Ansible task.

– Select physical disks either the respective Slot locations or Physical Disk IDs while creating a RAID volume.

– Support multiple VD creation on a disk group.

• The dellemc_congure_raid module is deprecated and all the functionality are added to the new dellemc_idrac_storage_volume

module.

• Enhanced BIOS conguration module to:

– Support conguration of all the BIOS attributes (such as boot settings, processor settings, memory settings, system and workload

proles, system security etc).

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