Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules Version 3.0.0 User’s Guide
- 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)
- Modules for Redfish APIs
- Deprecated modules
- Deprecated iDRAC modules
- Install firmware
- View Lifecycle Controller status
- Export or Import Server Configuration Profile
- Configure time zone and NTP on iDRAC
- Configure iDRAC network
- Configure BIOS
- Configure iDRAC users
- Configure RAID
- Configure syslog
- Boot to a network ISO image
- Reset iDRAC
- View Lifecycle controller job status
- Export LC logs
- Delete LC job
- Delete LC job queue
- Deprecated OpenManage Enterprise (OME) modules
- Deprecated iDRAC modules
- Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site
Options
Table 69. dellemc_install_firmware
Parameter Required Default Choices Comments
idrac_ip Yes NA NA iDRAC IP Address
idrac_user Yes NA NA iDRAC username
idrac_pwd Yes NA NA iDRAC user password
idrac_port No 443 NA iDRAC port
job_wait Yes True NA
Whether to wait for job
completion or not.
catalog_file_name No Catalog.xml NA
Catalog file name
relative to the
I(share_name).
reboot No False NA
Whether to reboot
after applying the
updates or not.
share_name Yes NA NA
CIFS or NFS Network
share
share_user No NA NA
Network share user
in the format
'user@domain' or
'domain\user' if user
is part of a domain
else 'user'. This option
is mandatory for CIFS
Network share.
share_pwd No NA NA
Network share user
password. This option
is mandatory for CIFS
Network share.
share_mnt Yes NA NA
Local mount path of
the network share with
read/write permission
for ansible user. This
option is mandatory for
Network share.
Table 70. Return Values
Name Description Returned Type Sample
Firmware
Updates firmware from a
repository on a network share
(CIFS, NFS).
Success String
https://github.com/dell/dellemc-
openmanage-ansible-modules/
blob/devel/output/deprecated/
dellemc_install_firmware.md
Example
-name: Update firmware from a repository on a Network Share
dellemc_install_firmware:
idrac_ip: "xx.xx.xx.xx"
idrac_user: "xxxx"
idrac_pwd: "xxxxxxxx"
share_name: "xx.xx.xx.xx:/share"
share_user: "xxxx"
share_pwd: "xxxxxxxx"
share_mnt: "/mnt/share"
reboot: "True"
Deprecated modules
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