cisco.intersight.intersight_boot_order_policy module – Boot Order policy configuration for Cisco Intersight

Note

This module is part of the cisco.intersight collection (version 1.0.27).

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 cisco.intersight.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.intersight.intersight_boot_order_policy.

New in cisco.intersight 2.10

Synopsis

  • Boot Order policy configuration for Cisco Intersight.

  • Used to configure Boot Order servers and timezone settings on Cisco Intersight managed devices.

  • For more information see Cisco Intersight.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_key_id

string / required

Public API Key ID associated with the private key.

If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_KEY_ID environment variable is used.

api_private_key

string / required

Filename (absolute path) or string of PEM formatted private key data to be used for Intersight API authentication.

If a string is used, Ansible vault should be used to encrypt string data.

Ex. ansible-vault encrypt_string –vault-id tme@/Users/dsoper/Documents/vault_password_file ‘—–BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY—–

<your private key data>

—–END EC PRIVATE KEY—–’

If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable is used.

api_uri

string

URI used to access the Intersight API.

If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_URI environment variable is used.

Default: "https://intersight.com/api/v1"

boot_devices

list / elements=string

List of Boot Devices configured on the endpoint.

bootloader_description

string

Details of the bootloader to be used during boot from local disk.

Option is used when device_type is local_disk and configured_boot_mode is Uefi.

bootloader_name

string

Details of the bootloader to be used during boot from local disk.

Option is used when device_type is local_disk and configured_boot_mode is Uefi.

bootloader_path

string

Details of the bootloader to be used during boot from local disk.

Option is used when device_type is local_disk and configured_boot_mode is Uefi.

controller_slot

string

The slot id of the controller for the local disk device.

Option is used when device_type is local_disk.

Choices:

  • "1-255"

  • "M"

  • "HBA"

  • "SAS"

  • "RAID"

  • "MRAID"

  • "MSTOR-RAID"

device_name

string / required

A name that helps identify a boot device.

It can be any string that adheres to the following constraints.

It should start and end with an alphanumeric character.

It can have underscores and hyphens.

It cannot be more than 30 characters.

device_type

string / required

Device type used with this boot option.

Choices are based on each device title in the API schema.

Choices:

  • "iSCSI"

  • "Local CDD"

  • "Local Disk"

  • "NVMe"

  • "PCH Storage"

  • "PXE"

  • "SAN"

  • "SD Card"

  • "UEFI Shell"

  • "USB"

  • "Virtual Media"

enabled

boolean

Specifies if the boot device is enabled or disabled.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

intefrace_name

string

The name of the underlying virtual ethernet interface used by the PXE boot device.

Option is used when device_type is pxe and interface_source is name.

interface_source

string

Lists the supported Interface Source for PXE device.

Option is used when device_type is pxe.

Choices:

  • "name" ← (default)

  • "mac"

  • "port"

ip_type

string

The IP Address family type to use during the PXE Boot process.

Option is used when device_type is pxe.

Choices:

  • "None" ← (default)

  • "IPv4"

  • "IPv6"

lun

string

The Logical Unit Number (LUN) of the device.

Option is used when device_type is pch, san and sd_card.

The LUN need to be an integer from 0 to 255.

mac_address

string

The MAC Address of the underlying virtual ethernet interface used by the PXE boot device.

Option is used when device_type is pxe and interface_source is mac.

network_slot

string

The slot id of the controller for the iscsi and pxe device.

Option is used when device_type is iscsi and pxe.

Choices:

  • "1 - 255"

  • "MLOM"

  • "L"

  • "L1"

  • "L2"

  • "OCP"

port

string

The port id of the controller for the iscsi and pxe device.

Option is used when device_type is iscsi and pxe.

The port id need to be an integer from 0 to 255.

sd_card_subtype

string

The subtype for the selected device type.

Option is used when device_type is sd_card.

Choices:

  • "None" ← (default)

  • "flex-util"

  • "flex-flash"

  • "SDCARD"

usb_subtype

string

The subtype for the selected device type.

Option is used when device_type is usb.

Choices:

  • "None" ← (default)

  • "usb-cd"

  • "usb-fdd"

  • "usb-hdd"

virtual_media_subtype

string

The subtype for the selected device type.

Option is used when device_type is virtual_media.

Choices:

  • "None" ← (default)

  • "cimc-mapped-dvd"

  • "cimc-mapped-hdd"

  • "kvm-mapped-dvd"

  • "kvm-mapped-hdd"

  • "kvm-mapped-fdd"

configured_boot_mode

string

Sets the BIOS boot mode.

UEFI uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT) whereas Legacy mode uses the Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme.

Choices:

  • "Legacy" ← (default)

  • "Uefi"

description

aliases: descr

string

The user-defined description of the Boot Order policy.

Description can contain letters(a-z, A-Z), numbers(0-9), hyphen(-), period(.), colon(:), or an underscore(_).

name

string / required

The name assigned to the Boot Order policy.

The name must be between 1 and 62 alphanumeric characters, allowing special characters :-_.

organization

string

The name of the Organization this resource is assigned to.

Profiles and Policies that are created within a Custom Organization are applicable only to devices in the same Organization.

Default: "default"

state

string

If present, will verify the resource is present and will create if needed.

If absent, will verify the resource is absent and will delete if needed.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

tags

list / elements=string

List of tags in Key:<user-defined key> Value:<user-defined value> format.

uefi_enable_secure_boot

boolean

Secure boot enforces that device boots using only software that is trusted by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).

Option is only used if configured_boot_mode is set to Uefi.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

use_proxy

boolean

If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

validate_certs

boolean

Boolean control for verifying the api_uri TLS certificate

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Examples

- name: Configure Boot Order Policy
  cisco.intersight.intersight_boot_order_policy:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    organization: DevNet
    name: COS-Boot
    description: Boot Order policy for COS
    tags:
      - Key: Site
        Value: RCDN
    configured_boot_mode: legacy
    boot_devices:
      - device_type: Local Disk
        device_name: Boot-Lun
        controller_slot: MRAID

- name: Delete Boot Order Policy
  cisco.intersight.intersight_boot_policy:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    organization: DevNet
    name: COS-Boot
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

api_repsonse

dictionary

The API response output returned by the specified resource.

Returned: always

Sample: {"api_response": {"Name": "COS-Boot", "ObjectType": "boot.Policy", "Tags": [{"Key": "Site", "Value": "RCDN"}]}}

Authors

  • Tse Kai “Kevin” Chan (@BrightScale)