ansible/scripts/drac-xml-writer

This tool generates XML files to be uploaded to Dell iDRAC consoles

Requirements

• pandas for the DHCP parser
• racadm to talk to the Dells

Usage

1. Put a list of IPs in hostnames.csv - 2 IPs are given as an example
2. Run dhcp_parser.py
   1. This will reference the IPs and lookup the hostnames that match
   2. The output is written back to hostnames.csv
3. (optional) Export a known-good XML from a DRAC host, and place it in drac-prod.xml.base
   1. This is optional, the repo contains our current XML with the edits already done
   2. e.g. sudo racadm -r <ip> -u admin -p "supersecret" get -f ./drac-prod.xml.base -t xml --clone
   3. Edit NIC.1#DNSRacName and replace the hostname with PLACEHOLDER, like this:
      • <Attribute Name="NIC.1#DNSRacName">PLACEHOLDER</Attribute>
   4. Edit the Users and comment out the passwords for the relevant users
      • <!-- <Attribute Name="Users.2#Password"></Attribute> -->
4. Edit xml_writer to set the passwords used for the prod and stg environments (lines 47, 50, 56 & 59)
5. Run python xml_writer.py

Output

This will generate 2 directories and 4 scripts.

The directories are called prod and stg and contain the customised XML for each target host in the IP list.

The files are prod.sh, stg.sh, prod_test.sh and stg_test.sh. Run the test scripts first - these simply use racadm to test the user/password works for each host. racadm can be noisy, so run it like this:

bash ./stg_test.sh 2>&1 |grep -E "(10.16|ERROR)"

Obviously replace the 10.16 with the real IPs - you want to match all the hosts but not the random text racadm spews out

If any fail, check the access manually, and re-run until then work.

Then run the main script, eg bash stg.sh which will apply the custom XML from the directory to the each host in series.

You can run the test script another time after to check access still works