community.general.hpilo_info module – Gather information through an HP iLO interface

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).

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.hpilo_info.

Synopsis

  • This module gathers information on a specific system using its HP iLO interface. These information includes hardware and network related information useful for provisioning (e.g. macaddress, uuid).

  • This module requires the hpilo python module.

  • This module was called hpilo_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the community.general.hpilo_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

Requirements

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

  • hpilo

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

host

string / required

The HP iLO hostname/address that is linked to the physical system.

login

string

The login name to authenticate to the HP iLO interface.

Default: “Administrator”

password

string

The password to authenticate to the HP iLO interface.

Default: “admin”

ssl_version

string

Change the ssl_version used.

Choices:

  • SSLv3

  • SSLv23

  • TLSv1 ← (default)

  • TLSv1_1

  • TLSv1_2

Notes

Note

  • This module ought to be run from a system that can access the HP iLO interface directly, either by using local_action or using delegate_to.

Examples

- name: Gather facts from a HP iLO interface only if the system is an HP server
  community.general.hpilo_info:
    host: YOUR_ILO_ADDRESS
    login: YOUR_ILO_LOGIN
    password: YOUR_ILO_PASSWORD
  when: cmdb_hwmodel.startswith('HP ')
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: results

- ansible.builtin.fail:
    msg: 'CMDB serial ({{ cmdb_serialno }}) does not match hardware serial ({{ results.hw_system_serial }}) !'
  when: cmdb_serialno != results.hw_system_serial

Return Values

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

Key

Description

host_power_status

string

added in 3.5.0 of community.general

Power status of host.

Will be one of ON, OFF and UNKNOWN.

Returned: always

Sample: true

hw_bios_date

string

BIOS date

Returned: always

Sample: “05/05/2011”

hw_bios_version

string

BIOS version

Returned: always

Sample: “P68”

hw_eth_ilo

dictionary

Interface information (for the iLO network interface)

Returned: always

Sample: [{“macaddress”: “00:11:22:33:44:BA”}, {“macaddress_dash”: “00-11-22-33-44-BA”}]

hw_ethX

dictionary

Interface information (for each interface)

Returned: always

Sample: [{“macaddress”: “00:11:22:33:44:55”, “macaddress_dash”: “00-11-22-33-44-55”}]

hw_product_name

string

Product name

Returned: always

Sample: “ProLiant DL360 G7”

hw_product_uuid

string

Product UUID

Returned: always

Sample: “ef50bac8-2845-40ff-81d9-675315501dac”

hw_system_serial

string

System serial number

Returned: always

Sample: “ABC12345D6”

hw_uuid

string

Hardware UUID

Returned: always

Sample: “123456ABC78901D2”

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)