purefa_facts - Collect facts from Pure Storage FlashArray

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • purestorage

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_token
required
FlashArray API token for admin privilaged user.
fa_url
required
FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
gather_subset Default:
minimum
When supplied, this argument will define the facts to be collected. Possible values for this include all, minimum, config, performance, capacity, network, subnet, interfaces, hgroups, pgroups, hosts, volumes and snapshots.

Notes

Note

  • This module requires purestorage python library
  • You must set PUREFA_URL and PUREFA_API environment variables if url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: collect default set of facts
  purefa_facts:
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: collect configuration and capacity facts
  purefa_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
      - capacity
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: collect all facts
  purefa_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - all
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

Returned Facts

Facts returned by this module are added/updated in the hostvars host facts and can be referenced by name just like any other host fact. They do not need to be registered in order to use them.

Fact Returned Description
capacity

config

default

hgroups

hosts

interfaces

network

performance

pgroups

snapshots

subnet

volumes



Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • Simon Dodsley (@sdodsley)

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