community.general.idrac_redfish_command – Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using iDRAC OEM Redfish APIs

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

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

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

Synopsis

• Builds Redfish URIs locally and sends them to remote OOB controllers to perform an action.

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

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_token string added in 2.3.0 of community.general		Security token for authentication with OOB controller
baseuri string / required		Base URI of OOB controller
category string / required		Category to execute on OOB controller
command list / elements=string / required		List of commands to execute on OOB controller
password string		Password for authentication with OOB controller
resource_id string added in 0.2.0 of community.general		The ID of the System, Manager or Chassis to modify
timeout integer	Default: 10	Timeout in seconds for URL requests to OOB controller
username string		User for authentication with OOB controller

Examples

- name: Create BIOS configuration job (schedule BIOS setting update)
  community.general.idrac_redfish_command:
    category: Systems
    command: CreateBiosConfigJob
    resource_id: System.Embedded.1
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
msg string	always	Message with action result or error description Sample: Action was successful

Authors

• Jose Delarosa (@jose-delarosa)