DRAC Facts

Role providing a module to gather facts about BIOS settings and RAID configuration on Dell machines with an iDRAC card.

Requirements

The role provides a module, drac_facts, that is dependent upon the python-dracclient module. This must be installed in order for this module to function correctly.

Module Arguments

address: IP address or hostname of the iDRAC BMC.

username: Username credentials for the iDRAC.

password: Password credentials for the iDRAC.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

With the iDRAC BMCs in the inventory, this role may be used as follows:

- hosts: dell-server-bmcs
  gather_facts: false
  roles:
    - role: stackhpc.drac-facts
  tasks:
    - name: Gather facts via DRAC
      local_action:
        module: drac_facts
        address: "{{ ansible_host }}"
        username: foo
        password: bar

    - name: Show gathered facts about BIOS settings
      debug:
        var: drac_bios_settings

    - name: Show gathered facts about jobs
      debug:
        var: drac_jobs

    - name: Show gathered facts about unfinished jobs
      debug:
        var: drac_unfinished_jobs

    - name: Show gathered facts about RAID controllers
      debug:
        var: drac_raid_controllers

    - name: Show gathered facts about physical disks
      debug:
        var: drac_physical_disks

    - name: Show gathered facts about virtual disks
      debug:
        var: drac_virtual_disks

License

BSD

Author Information

• Authors: Mark Goddard & Stig Telfer
• Company: StackHPC Ltd
• Website: https://stackhpc.com