Ansible Collection - unbelievable.hpe

The collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of HPE OneView / iLO.

This collection provides specific modules. For a generic iLO modules, please see:

• community.general.redfish_command
• community.general.redfish_config
• community.general.redfish_info

See also Ansible Collection for HPE OneView.

Ansible version compatibility

This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: >= 2.9.

Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions. A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions. PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.

Python Support

• Collection supports 2.7+

Note: Python2 is deprecated from 1st January 2020. Please switch to Python3.

Installation and Usage

⚠️ WARNING
Currently the collection is not available via Ansible Galaxy.

Before using the collection, you need to install it with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install https://github.com/the-unbelievable-machine/ansible_collection_hpe.git,v1.0.0

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it via ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: unbelievable.hpe
    source: https://github.com/the-unbelievable-machine/ansible_collection_hpe.git
    type: git
    version: 1.0.0

Included content

Click on the name of a plugin or module to view that content's documentation:

Inventory plugins

Name	Description
unbelievable.hpe.oneview	HPE OneView inventory source

Modules

Name	Description
unbelievable.hpe.ilo_boot_order	Manage boot order
unbelievable.hpe.ilo_power_state	Manage server power state via iLO
unbelievable.hpe.ilo_security_settings	Manage iLO Security settings
unbelievable.hpe.ilo_smartstorage_raids	Create/configure/delete smartstorage raids
unbelievable.hpe.ilo_thermal_settings	Manage iLO Thermal settings
unbelievable.hpe.imc_configdirectory	Create/Delete config file directory
unbelievable.hpe.imc_configfile	Create/Delete config files
unbelievable.hpe.imc_configfiles_info	List of content (config files) of a folder.
unbelievable.hpe.imc_devices_info	Content of /plat/res/device endpoint of IMC
unbelievable.hpe.oneview_inventory	Generates the same information as the oneview_inventory plugin.
unbelievable.hpe.oneview_racks_info	Content of /rest/racks endpoint of OneView
unbelievable.hpe.oneview_server_hardware_info	Content of /rest/server-hardware endpoint of OneView
unbelievable.hpe.oneview_server_profile_compliant	Content of /rest/server-profiles endpoint of OneView
unbelievable.hpe.oneview_server_profile_info	Content of /rest/server-profiles endpoint of OneView

playbooks

unbelievable.hpe.ilo_security_stage.yml

Usage:

ansible-playbook -i <your-inventory> unbelievable.hpe.ilo_security_stage.yml

Variables:

Name	Required	Default	Description
target	no	iLO5	Playbook hosts: setting. Pass inventory groups or hostnames
ilo_security_state	yes		'Production' or 'HighSecurity'. Prompted for if not set
ilo_password	yes		Prompted for if not set
ilo_user	no	Administrator
ilo_validate_certs	no	True	Validate ilo ssl ilo_validate_certs
ilo_port	no		if not set: omit / use module default
ilo_proxy	no		if not set: omit / use module default
ilo_delegate_to	no	localhost	Where to delegate the task to.