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inspur.sm.backup – Backup server settings.

Note

This plugin is part of the inspur.sm collection (version 1.3.0).

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 inspur.sm.

To use it in a playbook, specify: inspur.sm.backup.

New in version 0.1.0: of inspur.sm

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis 

Backup server settings on Inspur server.

Parameters 

Parameter	Comments
bak_file string / required	Backup file or bak folder.
host string	Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
item string / required	Export item. The values for M5 modules are ‘all’, ‘network’, ‘service’, ‘ntp’, ‘snmptrap’, ‘dns’, ‘smtp’, ‘ad’, ‘ldap’, ‘user’,’bios’. The values for M6 modules are ‘all’, ‘network’, ‘service’, ‘ntp’, ‘snmptrap’, ‘kvm’, ‘ipmi’, ‘authentication’, ‘syslog’. Choices: all network service ntp snmptrap dns smtp ad ldap user bios kvm ipmi authentication syslog
password string	Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
provider dictionary	A dict object containing connection details.
host string	Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
password string	Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
username string	Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
username string	Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.

Examples 

- name: Backup test
  hosts: ism
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    ism:
      host: "{{ ansible_ssh_host }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"

  tasks:

  - name: "Backup server settings"
    inspur.sm.backup:
      bak_file: "/home/wbs/"
      item: "all"
      provider: "{{ ism }}"

Return Values 

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

Key	Description
changed boolean	Check to see if a change was made on the device. Returned: always
message string	Messages returned after module execution. Returned: always
state string	Status after module execution. Returned: always

Authors

WangBaoshan (@ISIB-group)

inspur.sm.backup – Backup server settings.

Synopsis

Parameters

Examples

Return Values