topic Issue with Ansible playbook in CIMC in Unified Computing System (UCS)

Issue with Ansible playbook in CIMC

palashbarua — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 01:03:00 GMT

I'm having issue with using Ansible playbook to run password setting commands. My playbook as below:

- name: Playbook to change admin user password for CIMC
hosts: cimcserver
gather_facts: no

tasks:
- name: multiple prompt, multiple answer (mandatory check for all prompts)
ansible.netcommon.cli_command:
command: '{{ item }}'
check_all: True
prompt:
- "Please enter password:"
- "Please confirm password:"
answer:
- "Just23+Pass\r"
- "Just23+Pass\r"
loop:
- scope user 1
- set enabled yes
- set password
- commit
- exit

But this not working, especially first command scope user 1.
I am trying to change password in all CIMC, What other options are there?

Re: Issue with Ansible playbook in CIMC

Marcel Zehnder — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 13:28:59 GMT

Maybe it's easier to use a specialised module like https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/imc_rest_module.html

Payload for changing username/password is like

See https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/api/3_0/b_Cisco_IMC_api_301/b_Cisco_IMC_api_301_appendix_01000.html for examples.

HTH

Re: Issue with Ansible playbook in CIMC

palashbarua — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 07:32:16 GMT

Hi Marcel Zehnder,
Thank you for providing this. Can I use module that is builtin, like cisco.aci, cisco.intersight, cisco.mso, cisco.nxos instead of imc? As I am not allowed to install new package in my system.

Again, thanks
Palash Barua