dellemc.openmanage.idrac_os_deployment module – Boot to a network ISO image

Note

This module is part of the dellemc.openmanage collection (version 6.3.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: dellemc.openmanage.idrac_os_deployment.

New in dellemc.openmanage 2.1.0

Synopsis

  • Boot to a network ISO image.

Requirements

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

  • omsdk >= 1.2.488

  • python >= 3.8.6

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

ca_path

path

added in dellemc.openmanage 5.0.0

The Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) file that contains a CA certificate to be used for the validation.

expose_duration

integer

It is the time taken in minutes for the ISO image file to be exposed as a local CD-ROM device to the host server. When the time expires, the ISO image gets automatically detached.

Default: 1080

idrac_ip

string / required

iDRAC IP Address.

idrac_password

aliases: idrac_pwd

string / required

iDRAC user password.

idrac_port

integer

iDRAC port.

Default: 443

idrac_user

string / required

iDRAC username.

iso_image

string / required

Network ISO name.

share_name

string / required

CIFS or NFS Network share.

share_password

aliases: share_pwd

string

Network share user password. This option is mandatory for CIFS Network Share.

share_user

string

Network share user in the format ‘user@domain’ or ‘domain\\user’ if user is part of a domain else ‘user’. This option is mandatory for CIFS Network Share.

timeout

integer

added in dellemc.openmanage 5.0.0

The socket level timeout in seconds.

Default: 30

validate_certs

boolean

added in dellemc.openmanage 5.0.0

If False, the SSL certificates will not be validated.

Configure False only on personally controlled sites where self-signed certificates are used.

Prior to collection version 5.0.0, the validate_certs is False by default.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • Run this module from a system that has direct access to DellEMC iDRAC.

  • This module does not support check_mode.

Examples

---
- name: Boot to Network ISO
  dellemc.openmanage.idrac_os_deployment:
      idrac_ip: "192.168.0.1"
      idrac_user: "user_name"
      idrac_password: "user_password"
      ca_path: "/path/to/ca_cert.pem"
      share_name: "192.168.0.0:/nfsfileshare"
      iso_image:  "unattended_os_image.iso"
      expose_duration: 180

Return Values

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

Key

Description

boot_status

dictionary

Details of the boot to network ISO image operation.

Returned: always

Sample: {"DeleteOnCompletion": "false", "InstanceID": "DCIM_OSDConcreteJob:1", "JobName": "BootToNetworkISO", "JobStatus": "Success", "Message": "The command was successful.", "MessageID": "OSD1", "Name": "BootToNetworkISO", "Status": "Success", "file": "192.168.0.0:/nfsfileshare/unattended_os_image.iso", "retval": true}

msg

string

Over all device information status.

Returned: on error

Sample: "Failed to boot to network iso"

Authors

  • Felix Stephen (@felixs88)

  • Jagadeesh N V (@jagadeeshnv)