purestorage.flashblade.purefb_info module – Collect information from Pure Storage FlashBlade

Note

This module is part of the purestorage.flashblade collection (version 1.21.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install purestorage.flashblade. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flashblade.purefb_info.

New in purestorage.flashblade 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Collect information from a Pure Storage FlashBlade running the Purity//FB operating system. By default, the module will collect basic information including hosts, host groups, protection groups and volume counts. Additional information can be collected based on the configured set of arguements.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 3.9

  • py-pure-client

  • purity_fb >= 1.12.2

  • netaddr

  • datetime

  • pytz

  • distro

  • pycountry

  • urllib3

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_token

string

FlashBlade API token for admin privileged user.

disable_warnings

boolean

added in purestorage.flashblade 1.18.0

Disable insecure certificate warnings

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

fb_url

string

FlashBlade management IP address or Hostname.

gather_subset

list / elements=string

When supplied, this argument will define the information to be collected. Possible values for this include all, minimum, config, performance, capacity, network, subnets, lags, filesystems, snapshots, buckets, replication, policies, arrays, accounts, admins, ad, kerberos, drives, servers and fleet.

Default: ["minimum"]

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purity_fb Python library

  • You must set PUREFB_URL and PUREFB_API environment variables if fb_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: collect default set of info
  purestorage.flashblade.purefb_info:
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641
  register: blade_info
- name: show default information
  debug:
    msg: "{{ blade_info['purefb_info']['default'] }}"

- name: collect configuration and capacity info
  purestorage.flashblade.purefb_info:
    gather_subset:
      - config
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641
  register: blade_info
- name: show config information
  debug:
    msg: "{{ blade_info['purefb_info']['config'] }}"

- name: collect all info
  purestorage.flashblade.purefb_info:
    gather_subset:
      - all
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641
  register: blade_info
- name: show all information
  debug:
    msg: "{{ blade_info['purefb_info'] }}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

purefb_info

dictionary

Returns the information collected from the FlashBlade

Returned: always

Authors

  • Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley)