hpilo_facts - Gather facts through an HP iLO interface

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • This module gathers facts for a specific system using its HP iLO interface. These facts include hardware and network related information useful for provisioning (e.g. macaddress, uuid).
  • This module requires the hpilo python module.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • hpilo

Options

parameter required default choices comments
host
 yes
The HP iLO hostname/address that is linked to the physical system.
login
 no Administrator
The login name to authenticate to the HP iLO interface.
password
 no admin
The password to authenticate to the HP iLO interface.
ssl_version
(added in 2.4)
 no TLSv1
  • SSLv3
  • SSLv23
  • TLSv1
  • TLSv1_1
  • TLSv1_2
Change the ssl_version used.

Examples

# Task to gather facts from a HP iLO interface only if the system is an HP server
- hpilo_facts:
    host: YOUR_ILO_ADDRESS
    login: YOUR_ILO_LOGIN
    password: YOUR_ILO_PASSWORD
  when: cmdb_hwmodel.startswith('HP ')
  delegate_to: localhost

- fail:
    msg: 'CMDB serial ({{ cmdb_serialno }}) does not match hardware serial ({{ hw_system_serial }}) !'
  when: cmdb_serialno != hw_system_serial

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
hw_bios_date
BIOS date
 always string 05/05/2011
hw_bios_version
BIOS version
 always string P68
hw_eth_ilo
Interface information (for the iLO network interface)
 always dictionary [{'macaddress': '00:11:22:33:44:BA'}, {'macaddress_dash': '00-11-22-33-44-BA'}]
hw_ethX
Interface information (for each interface)
 always dictionary [{'macaddress': '00:11:22:33:44:55', 'macaddress_dash': '00-11-22-33-44-55'}]
hw_product_name
Product name
 always string ProLiant DL360 G7
hw_product_uuid
Product UUID
 always string ef50bac8-2845-40ff-81d9-675315501dac
hw_system_serial
System serial number
 always string ABC12345D6
hw_uuid
Hardware UUID
 always string 123456ABC78901D2

Notes

Note

  • This module ought to be run from a system that can access the HP iLO interface directly, either by using local_action or using delegate_to.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/hpilo_facts_module.html