community.general.hpilo_info – Gather information through an HP iLO interface

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

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

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

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

This module gathers information on a specific system using its HP iLO interface. These information includes hardware and network related information useful for provisioning (e.g. macaddress, uuid).
This module requires the hpilo python module.
This module was called hpilo_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the community.general.hpilo_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

hpilo

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
host string / required		The HP iLO hostname/address that is linked to the physical system.
login string	Default: "Administrator"	The login name to authenticate to the HP iLO interface.
password string	Default: "admin"	The password to authenticate to the HP iLO interface.
ssl_version string	SSLv3 SSLv23 TLSv1 ← TLSv1_1 TLSv1_2	Change the ssl_version used.

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.

Examples

- name: Gather facts from a HP iLO interface only if the system is an HP server
  community.general.hpilo_info:
    host: YOUR_ILO_ADDRESS
    login: YOUR_ILO_LOGIN
    password: YOUR_ILO_PASSWORD
  when: cmdb_hwmodel.startswith('HP ')
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: results

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

Return Values

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

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

Authors

Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/hpilo_info_module.html