purefb_facts - Collect facts from Pure Storage FlashBlade¶

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Returned Facts
Status
Maintenance
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Collect facts information from a Pure Storage FlashBlade running the Purity//FB operating system. By default, the module will collect basic fact information including hosts, host groups, protection groups and volume counts. Additional fact information can be collected based on the configured set of arguements.

Requirements ¶

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

python >= 2.7
purity_fb >= 1.1

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_token		FlashBlade API token for admin privilaed user.
fb_url		FlashBlade management IP 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, subnets, lags, filesystems and snapshots.

Notes ¶

Note

This module requires the `purity_fb` python library
You must set PUREFB_URL and PUREFB_API environment variables if fb_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples ¶

- name: collect default set of facts
  purefb_facts:
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641

- name: collect configuration and capacity facts
  purefb_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
      - capacity
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641

- name: collect all facts
  purefb_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - all
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641

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
filesystems
lag
network
performance
snapshots
subnet

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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