How to set boot order via ansible? (community.general.redfish_config)

costelter — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 04:18:36 GMT

Hi!

I'm trying to configure a new bunch of servers (HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen 10 Plus v2) witn ansible and the community.general collection via redfish_config.

Setting normal bios parameters, ilo config does work as expected.

But the SetBootOrder command fails with a "400 on PATCH request".

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "HTTP Error 400 on PATCH request to 'https://10.x.x.11/redfish/v1/Systems/1/', extended message: 'Bad Request'"}

I could read the current bootorder via GetBootOrder:

{ "BootOptionReference": "Boot001A", "DisplayName": "OCP Slot 10 Port 1 : Intel(R) Ethernet Network Adapter I350-T4 for OCP NIC 3.0 (PXE IPv4)" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot000E", "DisplayName": "Generic USB Boot" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot000F", "DisplayName": "Storage Slot 12 : HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ - Box 3, Bay 1" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0010", "DisplayName": "Storage Slot 12 : HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ - Box 3, Bay 2" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0011", "DisplayName": "Storage Slot 12 : HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ - Box 3, Bay 3" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0012", "DisplayName": "Storage Slot 12 : HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ - Box 3, Bay 4" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0013", "DisplayName": "Storage Slot 12 : HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ - Box 3, Bay 5" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0014", "DisplayName": "Storage Slot 12 : HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ - Box 3, Bay 6" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0015", "DisplayName": "Storage Slot 12 : HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ - Box 3, Bay 7" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0016", "DisplayName": "Storage Slot 12 : HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ - Box 3, Bay 8" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0019", "DisplayName": "OCP Slot 10 Port 1 : Intel(R) Ethernet Network Adapter I350-T4 for OCP NIC 3.0 (HTTP(S) IPv4)" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0017", "DisplayName": "OCP Slot 10 Port 1 : Intel(R) Ethernet Network Adapter I350-T4 for OCP NIC 3.0 (PXE IPv6)" }, { "BootOptionReference": "Boot0018", "DisplayName": "OCP Slot 10 Port 1 : Intel(R) Ethernet Network Adapter I350-T4 for OCP NIC 3.0 (HTTP(S) IPv6)" }

This is the ansible code for reading:

- name: Get info community.general.redfish_info: category: Systems command: GetBootOrder baseuri: "{{ baseuri[item.key] }}" username: "{{ username }}" password: "{{ credentials[item.key] }}" register: just_all - name: Debug ansible.builtin.debug: msg: "{{ just_all }}"

and the part for (trying) to set the new order:

- name: Set boot order community.general.redfish_config: category: Systems command: SetBootOrder boot_order: - Boot000E - Boot001A - Boot000F - Boot0010 - Boot0011 - Boot0012 - Boot0013 - Boot0014 - Boot0015 - Boot0016 - Boot0019 - Boot0017 - Boot0018 baseuri: "{{ baseuri[item.key] }}" auth_token: "{{ result.session.token }}"

Which fails.

Any hints what could be wrong?

Kind regards,

Christian

Re: How to set boot order via ansible? (community.general.redfish_config)

Suman_1978 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:04:38 GMT

Hi,

I personally have not tried this script but here is a good documentation to start with.

https://developer.hpe.com/blog/setting-bios-and-storage-controller-properties-with-redfish/
https://developer.hpe.com/blog/master-the-redfish-server-states-to-improve-your-monitoring-and-manageme/

Thank You!
I work with HPE but opinions expressed here are mine.
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Re: How to set boot order via ansible? (community.general.redfish_config)

costelter — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:14:11 GMT

Thanks for the pointers!

I solved it by using a commission script with HPEs ilorest command within the MAAS that we use to deploy the base Ubuntu os installation.

With ilorest it works as expected. If I find the time, I will open an issue for the ansible collection used. May be a contributor to that project has more insight and can help to solved it for the community collection.

Kind regards,

Christian

Re: How to set boot order via ansible? (community.general.redfish_config)

Sunitha_Mod — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:57:10 GMT

@costelter

Hello Christian,

Perfect!

We are glad to know you were able to find the solution and thank you for keeping us updated.

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