purefb_facts – Collect facts from Pure Storage FlashBlade

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis

  • Collect facts information from a Pure Storage FlashBlade running the Purity//FB operating system. By default, the module will collect basic fact information including hosts, host groups, protection groups and volume counts. Additional fact 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 >= 2.7
  • purity_fb >= 1.1

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_token
-
FlashBlade API token for admin privilaed user.
fb_url
-
FlashBlade management IP address or Hostname.
gather_subset
-
Default:
"minimum"
When supplied, this argument will define the facts to be collected. Possible values for this include all, minimum, config, performance, capacity, network, subnets, lags, filesystems and snapshots.

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 facts
  purefb_facts:
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641

- name: collect configuration and capacity facts
  purefb_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
      - capacity
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641

- name: collect all facts
  purefb_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - all
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641

Returned Facts

Facts returned by this module are added/updated in the hostvars host facts and can be referenced by name just like any other host fact. They do not need to be registered in order to use them.

Fact Returned Description
capacity
-
config
-
default
-
filesystems
-
lag
-
network
-
performance
-
snapshots
-
subnet
-


Status

Authors

  • Simon Dodsley (@sdodsley)

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