Users Guide

Contents
1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................5
Key Features....................................................................................................................................................................... 5
What's new?.......................................................................................................................................................................6
2 Getting Started..............................................................................................................................................7
How OpenManage Ansible Modules works.................................................................................................................... 7
Running your rst Playbook.............................................................................................................................................. 7
3 Modules for iDRAC........................................................................................................................................ 8
How OpenManage Ansible Modules for iDRAC works..................................................................................................8
Running your rst iDRAC Playbook..................................................................................................................................8
Updating Firmware.............................................................................................................................................................9
View rmware inventory..............................................................................................................................................9
Install rmware............................................................................................................................................................10
Conguring PowerEdge Servers.....................................................................................................................................14
View LC status............................................................................................................................................................15
Server Conguration Prole......................................................................................................................................15
Conguring iDRAC..................................................................................................................................................... 23
Congure BIOS...........................................................................................................................................................33
Congure RAID...........................................................................................................................................................36
Congure Collect System Inventory on Restart.....................................................................................................42
Congure syslog.........................................................................................................................................................43
Deploying operating system............................................................................................................................................44
Boot to a network ISO image................................................................................................................................... 44
Server Inventory...............................................................................................................................................................45
View the system inventory....................................................................................................................................... 45
Server administration tasks............................................................................................................................................ 46
Congure the power state on the PowerEdge servers........................................................................................ 46
Reset iDRAC............................................................................................................................................................... 47
View LC job status..................................................................................................................................................... 48
Export LC logs............................................................................................................................................................49
Delete LC job.............................................................................................................................................................. 50
Delete LC job queue................................................................................................................................................... 51
Congure System Lockdown Mode......................................................................................................................... 51
4 Modules for OpenManage Enterprise (OME)...............................................................................................53
How OpenManage Ansible Modules for OME works..................................................................................................53
Running your rst OME Playbook..................................................................................................................................53
View device inventory..................................................................................................................................................... 54
Manage device conguration templates.......................................................................................................................56
View templates...........................................................................................................................................................56
Create, modify or deploy a template....................................................................................................................... 58
Manage the device rmware..........................................................................................................................................60
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