Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules Version 4.0.0 User’s Guide
- Contents
- Overview
- Getting Started
- Modules for iDRAC
- How OpenManage Ansible Modules work with iDRAC
- Running your first iDRAC Playbook
- Updating Firmware
- Configuring PowerEdge Servers
- Deploying operating system
- Server Inventory
- Server administration tasks
- Storage controller
- Modules for OpenManage Enterprise (OME)
- How OpenManage Ansible Modules work with OME
- Running your first OME Playbook
- Manage Devices
- Manage device configuration templates
- Template Service
- Manage the device firmware
- Manage jobs
- Manage users
- Manage identity pool
- Manage application settings
- Manage network configuration
- Manage fabrics
- Manage Profiles
- Device discovery
- Manage Chassis
- Manage Active Directory service and user groups
- Diagnostics
- Modules for Redfish APIs
- Deprecated modules
Modules for OpenManage Enterprise (OME)
Topics:
• How OpenManage Ansible Modules work with OME
•
Running your first OME Playbook
• Manage Devices
• Manage device configuration templates
• Template Service
• Manage the device firmware
• Manage jobs
• Manage users
• Manage identity pool
• Manage application settings
• Manage network configuration
• Manage fabrics
• Manage Profiles
• Device discovery
• Manage Chassis
• Manage Active Directory service and user groups
• Diagnostics
How OpenManage Ansible Modules work with OME
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.
For information on which user roles in OME have the required privileges to run modules, refer roles and associated privileges for
OME.
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 GitHub or from Ansible Galaxy. For more details, see Dell EMC 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'
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