purestorage.flashblade.purefb_inventory module – Collect information from Pure Storage FlashBlade

Note

This module is part of the purestorage.flashblade collection (version 1.10.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flashblade.purefb_inventory.

New in purestorage.flashblade 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Collect information from a Pure Storage FlashBlade running the Purity//FB operating system. By default, the module will collect basic information including hosts, host groups, protection groups and volume counts. Additional information can be collected based on the configured set of arguements.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7

  • purity_fb >= 1.9

  • netaddr

  • pytz

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_token

string

FlashBlade API token for admin privileged user.

fb_url

string

FlashBlade management IP address or Hostname.

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purity_fb Python library

  • You must set PUREFB_URL and PUREFB_API environment variables if fb_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: collect FlashBlade inventory
  purestorage.flashblade.purefb_inventory:
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
  register: blade_info
- name: show default information
  debug:
    msg: "{{ blade_info['purefb_info'] }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

purefb_inventory

complex

Returns the inventory information for the FlashBlade

Returned: always

Sample: {"blades": {"CH1.FB1": {"model": "FB-17TB", "serial": "PPCXA1942AFF5", "slot": 1, "status": "healthy"}}, "chassis": {"CH1": {"index": 1, "model": null, "serial": "PMPAM163402AE", "slot": null, "status": "healthy"}}, "controllers": {}, "ethernet": {"CH1.FM1.ETH1": {"model": "624410002", "serial": "APF16360021PRV", "slot": 1, "speed": 40000000000, "status": "healthy"}}, "fans": {"CH1.FM1.FAN1": {"slot": 1, "status": "healthy"}}, "modules": {"CH1.FM1": {"model": "EFM-110", "serial": "PSUFS1640002C", "slot": 1, "status": "healthy"}, "CH1.FM2": {"model": "EFM-110", "serial": "PSUFS1640004A", "slot": 2, "status": "healthy"}}, "power": {"CH1.PWR1": {"model": "DS1600SPE-3", "serial": "M0500E00D8AJZ", "slot": 1, "status": "healthy"}}, "switch": {}}

Authors

  • Pure Storage ansible Team (@sdodsley)