community.general.oneview_datacenter_info – Retrieve information about the OneView Data Centers

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.oneview_datacenter_info.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Retrieve information about the OneView Data Centers.
This module was called oneview_datacenter_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the community.general.oneview_datacenter_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

Requirements

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

hpOneView >= 2.0.1
python >= 2.7.9

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
config path		Path to a .json configuration file containing the OneView client configuration. The configuration file is optional and when used should be present in the host running the ansible commands. If the file path is not provided, the configuration will be loaded from environment variables. For links to example configuration files or how to use the environment variables verify the notes section.
name string		Data Center name.
options string		Retrieve additional information. Options available: 'visualContent'.
params dictionary		List of params to delimit, filter and sort the list of resources. params allowed: - `start`: The first item to return, using 0-based indexing. - `count`: The number of resources to return. - `filter`: A general filter/query string to narrow the list of items returned. - `sort`: The sort order of the returned data set.

Notes

Note

A sample configuration file for the config parameter can be found at: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/oneview-ansible/blob/master/examples/oneview_config-rename.json
Check how to use environment variables for configuration at: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/oneview-ansible#environment-variables
Additional Playbooks for the HPE OneView Ansible modules can be found at: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/oneview-ansible/tree/master/examples
The OneView API version used will directly affect returned and expected fields in resources. Information on setting the desired API version and can be found at: https://github.com/HewlettPackard/oneview-ansible#setting-your-oneview-version

Examples

- name: Gather information about all Data Centers
  community.general.oneview_datacenter_info:
    hostname: 172.16.101.48
    username: administrator
    password: my_password
    api_version: 500
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.datacenters }}"

- name: Gather paginated, filtered and sorted information about Data Centers
  community.general.oneview_datacenter_info:
    hostname: 172.16.101.48
    username: administrator
    password: my_password
    api_version: 500
    params:
      start: 0
      count: 3
      sort: 'name:descending'
      filter: 'state=Unmanaged'
  register: result
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.datacenters }}"

- name: Gather information about a Data Center by name
  community.general.oneview_datacenter_info:
    hostname: 172.16.101.48
    username: administrator
    password: my_password
    api_version: 500
    name: "My Data Center"
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.datacenters }}"

- name: Gather information about the Data Center Visual Content
  community.general.oneview_datacenter_info:
    hostname: 172.16.101.48
    username: administrator
    password: my_password
    api_version: 500
    name: "My Data Center"
    options:
      - visualContent
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.datacenters }}"
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.datacenter_visual_content }}"

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
datacenter_visual_content dictionary	When requested, but can be null.	Has information about the Data Center Visual Content.
datacenters dictionary	Always, but can be null.	Has all the OneView information about the Data Centers.

Authors

Alex Monteiro (@aalexmonteiro)
Madhav Bharadwaj (@madhav-bharadwaj)
Priyanka Sood (@soodpr)
Ricardo Galeno (@ricardogpsf)

© 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/oneview_datacenter_info_module.html