community.general.oneview_datacenter_info – Retrieve information about the OneView Data Centers
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.oneview_datacenter_info
.
Synopsis
Retrieve information about the OneView Data Centers.
This module was called
oneview_datacenter_facts
before Ansible 2.9, returningansible_facts
. Note that the community.general.oneview_datacenter_info module no longer returnsansible_facts
!
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
hpOneView >= 2.0.1
python >= 2.7.9
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
---|---|
OneView API Version. |
|
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. |
|
IP address or hostname for the appliance. |
|
IP address or hostname for the HPE Image Streamer REST API. |
|
Data Center name. |
|
Retrieve additional information. Options available: ‘visualContent’. |
|
List of params to delimit, filter and sort the list of resources. params allowed: - |
|
Password for API authentication. |
|
Username for API authentication. |
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 Data Centers
community.general.oneview_datacenter_info:
hostname: 172.16.101.48
username: administrator
password: my_password
api_version: 500
delegate_to: localhost
register: result
- name: Print fetched information about Data Centers
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ result.datacenters }}"
- name: Gather paginated, filtered and sorted information about Data Centers
community.general.oneview_datacenter_info:
hostname: 172.16.101.48
username: administrator
password: my_password
api_version: 500
params:
start: 0
count: 3
sort: 'name:descending'
filter: 'state=Unmanaged'
register: result
- name: Print fetched information about paginated, filtered and sorted list of Data Centers
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ result.datacenters }}"
- name: Gather information about a Data Center by name
community.general.oneview_datacenter_info:
hostname: 172.16.101.48
username: administrator
password: my_password
api_version: 500
name: "My Data Center"
delegate_to: localhost
register: result
- name: Print fetched information about Data Center found by name
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ result.datacenters }}"
- name: Gather information about the Data Center Visual Content
community.general.oneview_datacenter_info:
hostname: 172.16.101.48
username: administrator
password: my_password
api_version: 500
name: "My Data Center"
options:
- visualContent
delegate_to: localhost
register: result
- name: Print fetched information about Data Center found by name
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ result.datacenters }}"
- name: Print fetched information about Data Center Visual Content
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ result.datacenter_visual_content }}"
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key |
Description |
---|---|
Has information about the Data Center Visual Content. Returned: When requested, but can be null. |
|
Has all the OneView information about the Data Centers. Returned: Always, but can be null. |
Authors
Alex Monteiro (@aalexmonteiro)
Madhav Bharadwaj (@madhav-bharadwaj)
Priyanka Sood (@soodpr)
Ricardo Galeno (@ricardogpsf)