community.general.oneview_fc_network_info – Retrieve the information about one or more of the OneView Fibre Channel Networks

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.6).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.oneview_fc_network_info.

Synopsis

• Retrieve the information about one or more of the Fibre Channel Networks from OneView.

• This module was called oneview_fc_network_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the community.general.oneview_fc_network_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

Requirements

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

• hpOneView >= 2.0.1

• python >= 2.7.9

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
config path		Path to a .json configuration file containing the OneView client configuration. The configuration file is optional and when used should be present in the host running the ansible commands. If the file path is not provided, the configuration will be loaded from environment variables. For links to example configuration files or how to use the environment variables verify the notes section.
name string		Fibre Channel Network name.
params dictionary		List of params to delimit, filter and sort the list of resources. params allowed: - start: The first item to return, using 0-based indexing. - count: The number of resources to return. - filter: A general filter/query string to narrow the list of items returned. - sort: The sort order of the returned data set.

Notes

Note

• A sample configuration file for the config parameter can be found at: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/oneview-ansible/blob/master/examples/oneview_config-rename.json

• Check how to use environment variables for configuration at: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/oneview-ansible#environment-variables

• Additional Playbooks for the HPE OneView Ansible modules can be found at: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/oneview-ansible/tree/master/examples

• The OneView API version used will directly affect returned and expected fields in resources. Information on setting the desired API version and can be found at: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/oneview-ansible#setting-your-oneview-version

Examples

- name: Gather information about all Fibre Channel Networks
  community.general.oneview_fc_network_info:
    config: /etc/oneview/oneview_config.json
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.fc_networks }}"

- name: Gather paginated, filtered and sorted information about Fibre Channel Networks
  community.general.oneview_fc_network_info:
    config: /etc/oneview/oneview_config.json
    params:
      start: 1
      count: 3
      sort: 'name:descending'
      filter: 'fabricType=FabricAttach'
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.fc_networks }}"

- name: Gather information about a Fibre Channel Network by name
  community.general.oneview_fc_network_info:
    config: /etc/oneview/oneview_config.json
    name: network name
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.fc_networks }}"

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
fc_networks dictionary	Always, but can be null.	Has all the OneView information about the Fibre Channel Networks.

Authors

• Felipe Bulsoni (@fgbulsoni)

• Thiago Miotto (@tmiotto)

• Adriane Cardozo (@adriane-cardozo)