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community.general.redfish_config – Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs

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.redfish_config.

Synopsis

• Builds Redfish URIs locally and sends them to remote OOB controllers to set or update a configuration attribute.

• Manages BIOS configuration settings.

• Manages OOB controller configuration settings.

Parameters

Parameter	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
bios_attributes dictionary added in 0.2.0 of community.general	dictionary of BIOS attributes to update Default: {}
boot_order list / elements=string added in 0.2.0 of community.general	list of BootOptionReference strings specifying the BootOrder Default: []
category string / required	Category to execute on OOB controller
command list / elements=string / required	List of commands to execute on OOB controller
network_protocols dictionary added in 0.2.0 of community.general	setting dict of manager services to update
nic_addr string added in 0.2.0 of community.general	EthernetInterface Address string on OOB controller Default: “null”
nic_config dictionary added in 0.2.0 of community.general	setting dict of EthernetInterface 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
strip_etag_quotes boolean added in 3.7.0 of community.general	Removes surrounding quotes of etag used in If-Match header of PATCH requests. Only use this option to resolve bad vendor implementation where If-Match only matches the unquoted etag string. Choices: no ← (default) yes
timeout integer	Timeout in seconds for URL requests to OOB controller Default: 10
username string	User for authentication with OOB controller

Examples

- name: Set BootMode to UEFI
  community.general.redfish_config:
    category: Systems
    command: SetBiosAttributes
    resource_id: 437XR1138R2
    bios_attributes:
      BootMode: "Uefi"
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Set multiple BootMode attributes
  community.general.redfish_config:
    category: Systems
    command: SetBiosAttributes
    resource_id: 437XR1138R2
    bios_attributes:
      BootMode: "Bios"
      OneTimeBootMode: "Enabled"
      BootSeqRetry: "Enabled"
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Enable PXE Boot for NIC1
  community.general.redfish_config:
    category: Systems
    command: SetBiosAttributes
    resource_id: 437XR1138R2
    bios_attributes:
      PxeDev1EnDis: Enabled
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Set BIOS default settings with a timeout of 20 seconds
  community.general.redfish_config:
    category: Systems
    command: SetBiosDefaultSettings
    resource_id: 437XR1138R2
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    timeout: 20

- name: Set boot order
  community.general.redfish_config:
    category: Systems
    command: SetBootOrder
    boot_order:
      - Boot0002
      - Boot0001
      - Boot0000
      - Boot0003
      - Boot0004
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Set boot order to the default
  community.general.redfish_config:
    category: Systems
    command: SetDefaultBootOrder
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Set Manager Network Protocols
  community.general.redfish_config:
    category: Manager
    command: SetNetworkProtocols
    network_protocols:
      SNMP:
        ProtocolEnabled: True
        Port: 161
      HTTP:
        ProtocolEnabled: False
        Port: 8080
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Set Manager NIC
  community.general.redfish_config:
    category: Manager
    command: SetManagerNic
    nic_config:
      DHCPv4:
        DHCPEnabled: False
      IPv4StaticAddresses:
        Address: 192.168.1.3
        Gateway: 192.168.1.1
        SubnetMask: 255.255.255.0
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

Return Values

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

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

Authors

• Jose Delarosa (@jose-delarosa)