Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules

Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules allows Data Center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the configuration, deployment, and update of Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (12th generation of PowerEdge servers and later) by leveraging the management automation capabilities in-built into the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC).

With the latest release of Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules, the capabilities have improved with support for OpenManage Enterprise. OpenManage Ansible Modules simplifies and automates provisioning, deployment, and updates of PowerEdge servers and modular infrastructure. It allows system administrators and software developers to introduce the physical infrastructure provisioning into their software provisioning stack, integrate with existing DevOps pipelines and manage their infrastructure using version-controlled playbooks, server configuration profiles, and templates in line with the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles.

Supported Platforms

• iDRAC 7/8 based Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with Firmware version 2.60.60.60 and above.
• iDRAC 9 based Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with Firmware version 3.34.34.34 and above.
• Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise version 3.2.1 and above.

Prerequisites

• Ansible
• Python >= 2.7.16
• To run the iDRAC modules, install OpenManage Python Software Development Kit (OMSDK) using pip install omsdk --upgrade or from Dell EMC OpenManage Python SDK

Documentation

Please refer to the OpenManage Ansible Modules Documentation or OpenManage Ansible Modules User Guide gitpages

Examples

Sample playbooks and examples could be found under examples directory

Results

Sample Results for the respective modules could be found under samples directory.

Installation

• Clone the latest development repository and install the ansible modules.

git clone -b devel --single-branch https://github.com/dell/dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules.git
cd dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules
python install.py

• It is recommended to update the ansible configuration setting environment variables to point to the current module paths, if any.

• If using an alternative python interpreter, i.e. virtualenv, you must set the Ansible variable ansible_python_interpreter to that path.

Uninstallation

cd dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules
python uninstall.py

LICENSE

This project is licensed under GPL-3.0 License. Please see the COPYING for more information

Contributing

We welcome your contributions to OpenManage Ansible Modules. See Coding Guidelines for more details.

Testing

See here for further information on testing.

Support

• This devel branch corresponds to the release actively under development.
• If you want to report any issue, then please report it by creating a new issue here
• If you have any requirements that is not currently addressed, then please let us know by creating a new issue here
• If you want to provide any feedback to the development team, then you can do so by sending an email to [email protected]

Authors

• OpenManageAnsible ([email protected])