Dell OpenManage Ansible Modules

Dell OpenManage Ansible Modules allows data center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the configuration, deployment, and update of Dell PowerEdge Servers and modular infrastructure by leveraging the management automation capabilities in-built into the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), OpenManage Enterprise (OME) and OpenManage Enterprise Modular (OMEM).

OpenManage Ansible Modules simplifies and automates provisioning, deployment, and updates of PowerEdge servers and modular infrastructure. It allows system administrators and software developers to introduce the physical infrastructure provisioning into their software provisioning stack, integrate with existing DevOps pipelines and manage their infrastructure using version-controlled playbooks, server configuration profiles, and templates in line with the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles.

Table of Contents

• Code of Conduct
• Committer Guide
• Contributing Guide
• Maintainers
• Support
• Security
• Documentation
• Execution Environment
• Additional Information

Supported Platforms

• iDRAC7 based Dell PowerEdge Servers with firmware versions 2.63.60.62 and above.
• iDRAC8 based Dell PowerEdge Servers with firmware versions 2.82.82.82 and above.
• iDRAC9 based Dell PowerEdge Servers with firmware versions 6.10.00.00 and above.
• Dell OpenManage Enterprise versions 3.9.2 and above.
• Dell OpenManage Enterprise Modular versions 1.40.20 and above.

Prerequisites

• Ansible Core >= 2.13.8 and 2.14.3
• Python >= 3.9.6
• To run the iDRAC modules, install OpenManage Python Software Development Kit (OMSDK) using either pip install omsdk --upgrade or pip install -r requirements.txt. OMSDK can also be installed from Dell OpenManage Python SDK
• Operating System
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.1 and 8.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP4 and 15 SP3
  • Ubuntu 22.04.1 and 22.04

Installation

• From galaxy:
  ansible-galaxy collection install dellemc.openmanage

  • For offline installation on the Ansible control machine, download the required tar archive version of the collection from Dell OpenManage collection and run the command given below:
    ansible-galaxy collection install dellemc-openmanage-<version>.tar.gz

• From github:
  Install the collection from the github repository using the latest commit on the branch 'collections'
  ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/dell/dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules.git,collections

About

Dell OpenManage Ansible Modules is 100% open source and community-driven. All components are available under GPL-3.0-only on GitHub.