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community.general.redfish_info – 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_info.

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis 

Builds Redfish URIs locally and sends them to remote OOB controllers to get information back.
Information retrieved is placed in a location specified by the user.
This module was called redfish_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the community.general.redfish_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

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
category list / elements=string	List of categories to execute on OOB controller Default: [“Systems”]
command list / elements=string	List of commands to execute on OOB controller
password string	Password for authentication with OOB controller
timeout integer	Timeout in seconds for URL requests to OOB controller Default: 10
username string	User for authentication with OOB controller

Examples 

- name: Get CPU inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetCpuInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.cpu.entries | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get CPU model
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetCpuInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.cpu.entries.0.Model }}"

- name: Get memory inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetMemoryInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Get fan inventory with a timeout of 20 seconds
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Chassis
    command: GetFanInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    timeout: 20
  register: result

- name: Get Virtual Media information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: GetVirtualMedia
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.virtual_media.entries | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get Volume Inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetVolumeInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result
- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.volume.entries | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get Session information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Sessions
    command: GetSessions
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.session.entries | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get default inventory information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result
- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get several inventories
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetNicInventory,GetBiosAttributes
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get default system inventory and user information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems,Accounts
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get default system, user and firmware information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: ["Systems", "Accounts", "Update"]
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get Manager NIC inventory information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: GetManagerNicInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get boot override information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetBootOverride
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get chassis inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Chassis
    command: GetChassisInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get all information available in the Manager category
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: all
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get firmware update capability information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Update
    command: GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get firmware inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Update
    command: GetFirmwareInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get software inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Update
    command: GetSoftwareInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get Manager Services
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: GetNetworkProtocols
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get all information available in all categories
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: all
    command: all
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get system health report
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetHealthReport
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get chassis health report
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Chassis
    command: GetHealthReport
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get manager health report
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: GetHealthReport
    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
result dictionary	different results depending on task Returned: always Sample: “List of CPUs on system”

Authors

Jose Delarosa (@jose-delarosa)

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

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Examples

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