Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies PowerScale
The Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies (Dell) PowerScale allow Data Center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the configuration and management of Dell PowerScale arrays.
The Ansible Modules for Dell PowerScale support the following features:
- Create user, groups, filesystem, NFS export, smart quotas, SMB share, snapshot and snapshot schedule of a filesystem.
- Modify user, groups, filesystem, access zone, NFS export, smart quotas, SMB share, snapshot and snapshot schedule of a filesystem.
- Delete user, groups, filesystem, NFS export, smart quotas, SMB share, snapshot and snapshot schedule of a filesystem.
- Get details of user, groups, node, filesystem, access zone, NFS export, smart quotas, SMB share, snapshot and snapshot schedule of a filesystem.
- Get details of SyncIQ policies, SyncIQ jobs, SyncIQ reports, SyncIQ target reports and SyncIQ performance rules of the cluster.
- Add, modify and remove Active Directory and LDAP to Authentication providers list.
- Map or unmap Active Directory and LDAP Authentication providers to Access zone.
- Create, modify and delete SyncIQ policy.
- Create job on SyncIQ policy and modify the state of SyncIQ Job.
- Create, modify and delete SyncIQ performance rule.
- Create, modify and delete Groupnet, Subnet, Network Pool and Network Rule.
- Get details of Groupnet, Subnet, Network Pool and Network Rule.
- Modify cluster email settings.
- Get cluster email settings and NTP Server details.
- Add and remove NTP Servers
- Create an access zone.
- Get network and smart pool settings.
- Modify network and smart pool settings.
- Get Filepool policy and Storagepool tiers.
- Create, delete Filepool policy and Storagepool tiers.
- Create, modify, get and delete NFS aliases.
- Get attributes and entities of the array.
- Find and close the SMB open files.
- Create, modify, get details and delete a user mapping rule.
- Create, modify, get details and delete an S3 bucket.
- Get details and modify NFS default settings.
- Get details and modify NFS global settings.
- Get details and modify NFS zone settings.
- Get details and modify SyncIQ global settings.
- Get details, modify, import, and delete SyncIQ certificates.
- Get details and modify SMB global settings.
- Get details and modify SNMP settings.
- Get details, import, modify, setting default and delete server certificates.
- Get details, create, modify, and delete auth roles.
- Get details, and modify support assist settings.
- Get details and modify alert settings.
- Get details of filesystems, smart quotas, alert_settings, alert_rules, alert_categories, event_groups and alert_channels using Info module.
- Use query parameters and filters for Info module.
The tasks can be executed by running simple playbooks written in yaml syntax.
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License
Ansible collection for PowerScale is released and licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. See LICENSE for the full terms.
Supported platforms
- Dell PowerScale OneFS versions 9.5.x, 9.7.x, and 9.8.x
Prerequisites
This table provides information about the software prerequisites for the Ansible Modules for Dell PowerScale.
| Ansible Modules | OneFS Version | Python version | Python SDK version | Ansible |
|---|
| v3.9.0 | 9.7.x
9.10.x
9.11.x | 3.10
3.11
3.12 | 0.6.0 | 2.16
2.17
2.18 |
List of Ansible modules for Dell PowerScale
Identity & Access Management
File System & Data Protection
Storage Management & Data Placement
Protocol Services
Network Configuration
Access Zones & System Settings
SyncIQ (Replication)
System Monitoring & Support
Installation and execution of Ansible modules for Dell PowerScale
The installation and execution steps of Ansible modules for Dell PowerScale can be found here.
Maintenance
Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies PowerScale deprecation cycle is aligned with Ansible.
