idrac_redfish_info – Manages servers through iDRAC using Dell Redfish APIs

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

  • Builds Redfish URIs locally and sends them to remote iDRAC controllers to get information back.

  • For use with Dell iDRAC operations that require Redfish OEM extensions

  • This module was called idrac_redfish_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the idrac_redfish_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

Aliases: idrac_redfish_facts

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
baseuri
string / required
Base URI of iDRAC controller
category
string / required
Category to execute on iDRAC controller
command
list / required
List of commands to execute on iDRAC controller
password
string / required
Password for authentication with iDRAC controller
timeout
integer
Default:
10
Timeout in seconds for URL requests to OOB controller
username
string / required
User for authentication with iDRAC controller

Examples

- name: Get Manager attributes with a default of 20 seconds
  idrac_redfish_command:
    category: Manager
    command: GetManagerAttributes
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    timeout: 20

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
msg
dictionary
always
different results depending on task

Sample:
List of Manager attributes


Status

Authors

  • Jose Delarosa (@jose-delarosa)

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