idrac_server_config_profile improvement requested (request)

[ThierryBesancon]

Hello

When you export the server config profile with idrac_server_config_profile, you can not specify the destination file. You can provide a scp_file definition but it is silently ignored. When you read idrac_server_config_profile.py, you clearly see the parameter is ignored and the profile is always named ipaddr_YYYYmmdd_HHMMSS( extension .xml or .json). That makes the name quite unpredictable (especially as python ansible is quite slow). Image i want to export the scp as XML, do some xml trickery on it and then push it back with an import. Exporting to an unpredictable name makes like harder in ansible... (unless you have a magic trick to do that that you can share with us?)

So my request is: would it be possible for idrac_server_config_profile to export to ipadd_YYYYmmdd_HHMMSS by default (to stay compatible with previous releases) but honour scp_file when set? If the request is refused, please update the documentation not to be misleading as it is presently: specify that scp_file is only used for import and never for export.

Thanks in advance for your future comment on my request.

[anupamaloke]

@ThierryBesancon, thank you for submitting this feature request. While the team will triage this and add to our internal backlog for appropriate prioritization, in the meanwhile, I can think of the following workaround to achieve your workflow:

  vars:
    scp_file_name: "scp.xml"

  tasks:
    - name: Export SCP
      idrac_server_config_profile:
        idrac_ip: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
        idrac_user: "{{ user }}"
        idrac_password: "{{ password }}"
        share_name: "{{ playbook_dir }}"
        export_use: "Clone"
        job_wait: True
      register: result

    - name: stat the exported scp file
      stat:
        path: "{{ result.scp_status.file }}"
      register: scp_stat
      delegate_to: localhost

    - name: Rename the scp file
      command: "mv {{ result.scp_status.file }} {{ scp_file_name }}"
      when: scp_stat.stat.exists
      delegate_to: localhost

[ThierryBesancon]

Hello

Thanks for your workaround but as i use a NFS share, result.scp_status.file is something like share_name/ipaddr_YYYYmmdd_HHMMSS_scp.xml that's to say that share_name is for example 192.168.0.1:/some/path/to/my/nfs/share/. More ansible work on characters strings is needed to get the SCP to the name i would like. It is not that it can't be done but count the ansible lines to do so we have to add each time we want to export the SCP... I'll try to post you a python patch to idrac_server_config_profile.py.

Thierry

[anupamaloke]

@ThierryBesancon, I agree that this becomes a little cumbersome when working with CIFS or NFS shares.

[jagadeeshnv]

@ThierryBesancon We have added this feature with the latest commit, where "scp_file" option can be used to specify custom file name. Kindly verify and let us know

[jagadeeshnv]

@ThierryBesancon This feature has been added with the latest commit. Hence closing issue. Thank you for the good suggestion