Users Guide

Modules for OpenManage Enterprise (OME)
Topics:
• How OpenManage Ansible Modules for OME works
•
Running your first OME Playbook
• View device inventory
• Manage device configuration templates
• Manage the device firmware
• Manage jobs
• Manage users
How OpenManage Ansible Modules for OME works
OpenManage Enterprise (OME) is a system management and monitoring application that provides rich sets of features to
manage the Dell EMC servers, chassis, storage, and network switches in an enterprise data center or IT environment. Using
the comprehensive set of REST APIs provided by OME, system administrators and software developers can discover, configure,
provision, update, and manage their entire Dell EMC infrastructure.
OpenManage Ansible modules for OME simplifies and automates the PowerEdge server and modular infrastructure provisioning,
deployment, and updates supported by OME. Leveraging the repeatable template configuration and deployment feature
provided by OME, administrators can automatically deploy the changes, ensure consistency and thereby significantly improve
productivity by reducing manual interactions and errors.
Running your first OME Playbook
Before you run a playbook to manage your iDRACs using OME, you need to have an inventory file that contains the target OME
server details. For more information on inventory, see Ansible documentation
1. Install OpenManage Ansible Modules either from the dell.com/support or the https://github.com/dell/dellemc-openmanage-
ansible-modules.git repository. For more details, see Dell EM C OpenManage Ansible Modules Installation Guide.
2. Create an inventory file containing a list of the OMEs. In the following inventory example, we are using the inventory
variables to store the OME IP addresses and the user credentials. For more information on variables, see Ansible
documentation.
inventory:
[PowerEdge]
ome.example.com
ome_ipaddress= '192.168.1.1'
ome_username='root'
ome_password='calvin'
3. Define a playbook to fetch the server inventory managed by the OME. Create the playbook in the same directory where you
created the inventory. Following is a playbook example:
playbook.yml
---
- hosts: PowerEdge
connection: local
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: Get server inventory
dellemc_ome_device_facts:
hostname: "{{ ome_ipaddress }}"
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