Ansible playbooks usage for Dell server automation, based on Galaxy collection or Python scripts, based on iDRAC-Redfish

0. How to install Ansible Galaxy collection to correct path:

boburciu@WX-5CG020BDT2:~$ ansible-config list | grep COLLECTIONS_PATHS -C1 # verify default location for the collections, so that the new modules can be read by Ansible cfg

    Ansible version
COLLECTIONS_PATHS:
  default: ~/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
--
  env:
  - name: ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS
  - name: ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH
 
boburciu@WX-5CG020BDT2:~$

boburciu@WX-5CG020BDT2:~$ ansible-galaxy collection install dellemc.openmanage --collections-path ~/.ansible/collections #installing the collection of roles in proper location

boburciu@WX-5CG020BDT2:~$ pip3 install omsdk --upgrade # installing Dell EMC OMSDK library

1. How to run:

boburciu@WX-5CG020BDT2:~$ cd ~/dell-ansible-automation

boburciu@WX-5CG020BDT2:~/dell-ansible-automation$ cat neo_hosts.yml

[idrac]
Dell_Control-3   idrac_ip='127.0.0.1'  idrac_port='44336'  idrac_user='root'  idrac_password='*****' idrac_set_ip='X.X.X.X' idrac_set_gw='X.X.X.Y' idrac_set_mask='255.255.255.0'
:

boburciu@WX-5CG020BDT2:~/dell-ansible-automation$ ansible-playbook -i neo_hosts.yml --limit Dell_Ceph_server-1:Dell_Control-3 dellemc_get_system_inventory.yml -e 'ansible_python_interpreter="/usr/bin/python3"' -v