community.general.oneview_datacenter_info module – Retrieve information about the OneView Data Centers

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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, returning ansible_facts. Note that the community.general.oneview_datacenter_info module no longer returns ansible_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

api_version

integer

OneView API Version.

config

path

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.

hostname

string

IP address or hostname for the appliance.

image_streamer_hostname

string

IP address or hostname for the HPE Image Streamer REST API.

name

string

Data Center name.

options

list / elements=string

Retrieve additional information. Options available: ‘visualContent’.

params

dictionary

List of params to delimit, filter and sort the list of resources.

params allowed: - start: The first item to return, using 0-based indexing. - count: The number of resources to return. - filter: A general filter/query string to narrow the list of items returned. - sort: The sort order of the returned data set.

password

string

Password for API authentication.

username

string

Username for API authentication.

Notes

Note

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

datacenter_visual_content

dictionary

Has information about the Data Center Visual Content.

Returned: When requested, but can be null.

datacenters

dictionary

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)