hpe_mcp

Ansible role `hpe_mcp`

An Ansible role for installing HPE MCP and SPP: and Management Component Pack and (optionally) Support Pack for ProLiant repos and packages.

Requirements

CentOS/RHEL/Rocky 7+ system.

Role Variables

hpe_mcp_packages - specifies packages to install, defaults to

hpe_mcp_packages:
  - hponcfg
  - ssacli

hpe_mcp_spp_packages - specifies SPP packages to install, defaults to empty array. If not empty will install SPP repo and listed packages.

If unsupported OS/platform combination found (RHEL8+ and ProLiant gen8 or older), SPP package install will be skipped, even though many RHEL7 packages can be used on RHEL8

Dependencies

None so far.

Example Playbook

    - hosts: all
      roles:
        - role: pauliusm.hpe_mcp
          hpe_mcp_packages:
            - ssacli
          hpe_mcp_spp_packages:
            - fibreutils
          when: "'ProLiant' in ansible_product_name"

Installs MCP repo and ssacli package, and fibreutils from SPP repo if ansible_product_name contains Proliant string.