Is there any suggestion in tracing graceful restart job?

[dafoyiming]

Hi Team

I am wondering a sample for tracing the job such as graceful restart. Scheduled/Running/Completed.

Thanks

[anupamaloke]

@dafoyiming, Server power cycle operations such as Graceful Restart do not create a iDRAC Task or a JOB. One way, IMHO, could be to check the value of the ServerStatus attribute in the output of the idrac_lifecycle_controller_status and make sure that it is not "In POST". Possible values for ServerStatus are Powered Off, In POST, Out of POST, Collecting System Inventory, Automated Task Execution, Lifecycle Controller Unified Server Configurator, Server has halted at F1/F2 error prompt because of a POST error, Server has halted at F1/F2/F11 prompt because there are no bootable devices available, and Server has entered F2 setup menu, Server has entered F11 Boot Manager menu.

Playbook:

- hosts: idrac
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - name: get lc status
    include_role:
      name: idrac_lifecycle_controller_status
    vars:
      idrac_ip: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      idrac_user: "{{ user }}"
      idrac_password: "{{ password }}"

Output

<SNIPPED for brevity>
TASK [idrac_lifecycle_controller_status : parse lifecycle controller status response] ************************************************************************
task path: /home/anupam/virtualenv/redfish_ansible_module/redfish-ansible-module/roles/idrac_lifecycle_controller_status/tasks/main.yml:73
ok: [192.168.10.10] => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "idrac_lc_status": {
            "LCStatus": "Ready",
            "RTStatus": "Ready",
            "ServerStatus": "HaltedF1/F2/F11Prompt",
            "Status": "Ready"
        }
    },
    "changed": false
}

[dafoyiming]

thank you. anupamaloke

That's suggestion is very helpful.