community.general.redfish_info – Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using Redfish APIs

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Builds Redfish URIs locally and sends them to remote OOB controllers to get information back.
• Information retrieved is placed in a location specified by the user.
• This module was called redfish_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the community.general.redfish_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

Parameters

Examples

- name: Get CPU inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetCpuInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.cpu.entries | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get CPU model
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetCpuInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.cpu.entries.0.Model }}"

- name: Get memory inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetMemoryInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Get fan inventory with a timeout of 20 seconds
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Chassis
    command: GetFanInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    timeout: 20
  register: result

- name: Get Virtual Media information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: GetVirtualMedia
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.virtual_media.entries | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get Volume Inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetVolumeInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result
- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.volume.entries | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get Session information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Sessions
    command: GetSessions
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result

- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts.session.entries | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get default inventory information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
  register: result
- name: Print fetched information
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.redfish_facts | to_nice_json }}"

- name: Get several inventories
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetNicInventory,GetBiosAttributes
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get default system inventory and user information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems,Accounts
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get default system, user and firmware information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: ["Systems", "Accounts", "Update"]
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get Manager NIC inventory information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: GetManagerNicInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get boot override information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetBootOverride
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get chassis inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Chassis
    command: GetChassisInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get all information available in the Manager category
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: all
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get firmware update capability information
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Update
    command: GetFirmwareUpdateCapabilities
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get firmware inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Update
    command: GetFirmwareInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get software inventory
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Update
    command: GetSoftwareInventory
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get Manager Services
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: GetNetworkProtocols
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get all information available in all categories
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: all
    command: all
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get system health report
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Systems
    command: GetHealthReport
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get chassis health report
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Chassis
    command: GetHealthReport
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

- name: Get manager health report
  community.general.redfish_info:
    category: Manager
    command: GetHealthReport
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

Return Values

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

Authors

• Jose Delarosa (@jose-delarosa)