Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules Version 2.0 User’s Guide

Overview

Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules allows data center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the configuration, deployment, and update of Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (12th generation of PowerEdge servers and later) and modular infrastructure by leveraging the management automation capabilities in-built into the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) and OpenManage Enterprise (OME) respectively.

With the latest release of Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules, the capabilities have improved with support for OpenManage Enterprise. 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.

This user guide provides information about using Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules and its different use cases.

The latest stable version of OpenManage Ansible Modules is available at dell.com/support. In addition to dell.com/support, you can download Ansible modules from https://github.com/dell/dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules. Dell EMC supports modules that are downloaded from this GitHub location only.