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
nic_mtu: 1500
ip_address: "192.168.0.1"
enable_dhcp: Enabled
enable_ipv4: Enabled
static_dns_1: "192.168.0.1"
static_dns_2: "192.168.0.1"
dns_from_dhcp: Enabled
static_gateway: None
static_net_mask: None
Configure BIOS
Module: idrac_bios
Synopsis
This module allows to configure the BIOS attributes.
Check_mode support: Yes
Options
Table 16. idrac_bios
Parameter/
aliases
Required Default Choices Comments
idrac_ip Yes NA NA iDRAC IP Address
idrac_user Yes NA NA iDRAC username
idrac_password/
idrac_pwd
Yes NA NA iDRAC user password
idrac_port No 443 NA iDRAC port
share_name No NA NA Network share or a local path
share_user No NA NA
Network share user name. Use the
format 'user@domain' or 'domain \\
user' if user is part of a domain.
This option is mandatory for CIFS share.
share_password/
share_pwd
No NA NA
Network share user password. This
option is mandatory for CIFS share.
share_mnt No NA NA
Local mount path of the network share
with read-write permission for Ansible
user. This option is mandatory for
network shares.
boot_mode No NA
● Bios
● Uefi
(deprecated) Sets boot mode to BIOS
or UEFI .
NOTE: This option is deprecated,
and will be removed in later version.
Use I(attributes) for configuring the
BIOS attributes.
NOTE: I(boot_mode) is mutually
exclusive with I(boot_sources).
boot_sequence No NA NA
(deprecated) Allows to set the boot
sequence in BIOS boot mode or Secure
UEFI boot mode by rearranging the
boot entries in Fully Qualified Device
Descriptor (FQDD).
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