Active IQ Unified Manager Ansible Integration Solution

The Active IQ Unified Manager Ansible Integration Solution pack contains Ansible modules and sample playbooks for Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM). These modules enable you to configure Service Level Objective (SLO) based storage management. The Ansible modules for AIQUM act as an orchestrator tool.

Repository includes:

1. Ansible modules for AIQUM
2. Sample Playbooks
3. README file

Supported configurations:

1. Active IQ Unified Manager version 9.7
2. Ansible version 2.9.1
3. Python versions 2.7.0, 3.5.0, and 3.6.0

Overview

User can use Ansible modules for AIQUM to configure SLO-based storage management. User can download the modules on their Ansible server by using the following configuration steps. After user has configured the modules, it can be used to write custom playbooks according to specific use cases or requirements. The modules function as an interface between Ansible and AIQUM. On using the modules, the commands provided at the Ansible server are translated into RESTful API calls to AIQUM. Responses are sent from AIQUM to the Ansible server.

Configuration

Prerequisites

1. Ansible must be set up on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x system
2. Active IQ Unified Manager version 9.7 must be installed and working

Steps

1. As a root user, log in to both the Ansible master machine and the Ansible managed servers.
2. Edit the ansible.cfg file to modify the Ansible modules library folder:

vi /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

3. Search for the commented line with the default value for the library parameter and remove the # symbol at the beginning of the line:

library = /root/modules

4. Log in as a root user to the Ansible server and create the modules directory at /root level:

mkdir modules

5. In /root/modules, download all the modules from the NetApp/Ansible-with-Active-IQ-Unified-Manager directory.

Note: You can download these modules to either of the Master Ansible servers.

6. Install the requests Python package using following command:

PIP install requests

7. Refer to the available sample playbooks to get started.

Module Documentation

You can access the documentation for each module by using the standard Ansible doc command:

ansible-doc aiqum_luns.py

Support

Report any problems to: https://github.com/NetApp/Ansible-with-Active-IQ-Unified-Manager/issues Or please report it to the following mail id: ng-aiqum-solutions@netapp.com

Releases:

9.7

This release supports the Ansible modules compatible with Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7

9.7U1

This release provides a new Ansible module to manage clusters as a data source for Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7

9.7U2

This release provides the updated modules list compatible with Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7

9.8

This release supports the Ansible modules compatible with Active IQ Unified Manager 9.8