purestorage.flashblade.purefb_inventory – Collect information from Pure Storage FlashBlade

Note

This plugin is part of the purestorage.flashblade collection (version 1.4.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install purestorage.flashblade.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flashblade.purefb_inventory.

New in version 1.0.0: of purestorage.flashblade

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Collect information from a Pure Storage FlashBlade running the Purity//FB operating system. By default, the module will collect basic information including hosts, host groups, protection groups and volume counts. Additional information can be collected based on the configured set of arguements.

Requirements

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

python >= 2.7
purity_fb >= 1.9
netaddr
pytz

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_token string		FlashBlade API token for admin privileged user.
fb_url string		FlashBlade management IP address or Hostname.

Notes

Note

This module requires the purity_fb Python library
You must set PUREFB_URL and PUREFB_API environment variables if fb_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: collect FlashBlade invenroty
  purefa_inventory:
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
- name: show default information
  debug:
    msg: "{{ array_info['purefb_info'] }}"

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
purefb_inventory complex	always	Returns the inventory information for the FlashArray Sample: {'admins': {'pureuser': {'role': 'array_admin', 'type': 'local'}}, 'apps': {'offload': {'description': 'Snapshot offload to NFS or Amazon S3', 'status': 'healthy', 'version': '5.2.1'}}}

Authors

Pure Storage ansible Team (@sdodsley) <[email protected]>

© 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/purestorage/flashblade/purefb_inventory_module.html