community.general.idrac_redfish_command module – Manages Out-Of-Band controllers using iDRAC OEM Redfish APIs

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.idrac_redfish_command.

Synopsis

  • Builds Redfish URIs locally and sends them to remote OOB controllers to perform an action.

  • For use with Dell iDRAC operations that require Redfish OEM extensions.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auth_token

string

added in community.general 2.3.0

Security token for authenticating to iDRAC.

baseuri

string / required

Base URI of iDRAC.

category

string / required

Category to execute on iDRAC.

command

list / elements=string / required

List of commands to execute on iDRAC.

password

string

Password for authenticating to iDRAC.

resource_id

string

added in community.general 0.2.0

ID of the System, Manager or Chassis to modify.

timeout

integer

Timeout in seconds for HTTP requests to iDRAC.

Default: 10

username

string

Username for authenticating to iDRAC.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Create BIOS configuration job (schedule BIOS setting update)
  community.general.idrac_redfish_command:
    category: Systems
    command: CreateBiosConfigJob
    resource_id: System.Embedded.1
    baseuri: "{{ baseuri }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

msg

string

Message with action result or error description

Returned: always

Sample: "Action was successful"

return_values

dictionary

added in community.general 6.6.0

Dictionary containing command-specific response data from the action.

Returned: on success

Sample: {"job_id": "/redfish/v1/Managers/iDRAC.Embedded.1/Jobs/JID_471269252011"}

Authors

  • Jose Delarosa (@jose-delarosa)