Reference Guide

Miscellaneous configuration and
management
Topics:
• OpenManage Ansible modules licensing
• Protect authenticity and integrity
• Ansible module security
OpenManage Ansible modules licensing
OMAM is open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0+. For more details see COPYING.md. iDRAC
and OpenManage Enterprise may require its own licenses for some functions in OMAM to work. Refer the User Guide for more
details.
Protect authenticity and integrity
To ensure the product integrity, the OMAM installation package is signed and uploaded to https://www.dell.com/support. The
collection bundle uploaded to ansible-galaxy is also signed.
Ansible module security
For security guidelines for Ansible modules, see Module Best Practices. Any developer who wants to contribute to OMAM
adhere to these guidelines, along with the UT and sanity requirements.
Certain settings in Ansible are adjustable through a configuration file (ansible.cfg). The stock configuration should be
sufficient for most users, but there may be reasons you would want to change them. Paths where the configuration file is
searched are listed in the reference documentation.
Ansible vault
Ansible Vault is a feature that allows users to encrypt values and data structures within the Ansible projects. This provides the
ability to secure any sensitive data that is necessary to successfully run Ansible plays but should not be publicly visible, such
as passwords or private keys. Ansible automatically decrypts vault-encrypted content at runtime when the key is provided. See
Vault documentation for more details.
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