community.general.ipmi_power – Power management for machine

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

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 community.general.

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

Synopsis

  • Use this module for power management

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

  • pyghmi

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

name

string / required

Hostname or ip address of the BMC.

password

string / required

Password to connect to the BMC.

port

integer

Remote RMCP port.

Default: 623

state

string / required

Whether to ensure that the machine in desired state.

The choices for state are: - on – Request system turn on - off – Request system turn off without waiting for OS to shutdown - shutdown – Have system request OS proper shutdown - reset – Request system reset without waiting for OS - boot – If system is off, then ‘on’, else ‘reset’

Choices:

  • on

  • off

  • shutdown

  • reset

  • boot

timeout

integer

Maximum number of seconds before interrupt request.

Default: 300

user

string / required

Username to use to connect to the BMC.

Examples

- name: Ensure machine is powered on
  community.general.ipmi_power:
    name: test.testdomain.com
    user: admin
    password: password
    state: on

Return Values

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

Key

Description

powerstate

string

The current power state of the machine.

Returned: success

Sample: true

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