[QUESTION]:How do i install the powerstore ansible modules in AWX

[sundarrd]

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**Details: ?**Hello team
I managed to install the powerstore ansible modules with ansible galaxy
is there a way to install these modules in awx ? i installed awx 0.20.5 on k3s but there seems to be no provision
in AWX to install any third party modules in which case i have to write my own playbook and provide the repository to sync
if you have any procedure please post a detailed instructions .

[waghmaredb]

Hi @sundarrd,

Sometime back I had written detailed blogs on the Ansible+Dell theme, which includes post on installing PowerStore modules on AWX. See if this helps.

https://vexpose.blog/2021/07/04/ansible-with-dellemc-storage-part-7-install-powerstore-collection-on-awx-tower/

[sundarrd]

Thank you for the response i checked the blog which uses old version of AWX now with recent AWX it is on kubernetes
[root@awx ~]# kubectl -n awx exec -it awx-844c574f84-bc4ww -c awx-task -- /bin/bash
bash-5.1$ ansible-galaxy
bash: ansible-galaxy: command not found
bash-5.1$
that procedure does not work any more .

[sundarrd]

we may have to use
[root@awx ~]# kubectl -n awx exec -it awx-844c574f84-bc4ww -c awx-ee -- /bin/bash
bash-4.4$ ansible-galaxy collection install dellemc.powerstore -c
Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
Starting collection install process
Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/dellemc-powerstore-1.6.0.tar.gz to /home/runner/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-3648wbuk4c_/tmprzm8bse6/dellemc-powerstore-1.6.0-ltamh_71
Installing 'dellemc.powerstore:1.6.0' to '/home/runner/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/dellemc/powerstore'
dellemc.powerstore:1.6.0 was installed successfully
bash-4.4$
will test it more and update here

[waghmaredb]

Thank you @sundarrd for the update.

[sundarrd]

i cannot get it to run from AWX
i can execute the playbook froom the container itself

bash-4.4$ ansible-playbook capacity_volumes1.yml
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/paramiko/transport.py:236: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Blowfish has been deprecated
"class": algorithms.Blowfish,
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'
[WARNING]: running playbook inside collection dellemc.powerstore

PLAY [Volumes which have capacity more than the threshold] **************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Get the details of the array] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [set_fact] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Get the details of all the volumes in the array] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=weekly.Consistency Group.2022-07-27T00:07:01Z 044907410.LUN-005.2022-07-27T00:07:01Z 110043709)
ok: [localhost] => (item=weekly.Consistency Group.2022-07-27T00:07:01Z 044907410.LUN-002.2022-07-27T00:07:01Z 109781058)
ok: [localhost] => (item=weekly.Consistency Group.2022-07-26T00:07:01Z 146300283.LUN-003.2022-07-26T00:07:01Z 243213530)
ok: [localhost] => (item=weekly.Consistency Group.2022-07-28T00:07:01Z 093396404.LUN-005.2022-07-28T00:07:01Z 155397344)
ok: [localhost] => (item=weekly.Ans_test_1.2022-07-30T00:06:20Z 623938720)
ok: [localhost] => (item=weekly.Consistency Group.2022-07-26T00:07:01Z 146300283.LUN-001.2022-07-26T00:07:01Z 243158102)
ok: [localhost] => (item=weekly.Consistency Group.2022-07-28T00:07:01Z 093396404.LUN-010.2022-07-28T00:07:01Z 155138794)
ok: [localhost] => (item=New_Datastore-008)

when i execute from AWX
ansible-playbook [core 2.12.5.post0]
config file = None
configured module search path = ['/home/runner/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /runner/requirements_collections:/home/runner/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook
python version = 3.8.13 (default, Jun 24 2022, 15:27:57) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-13)]
jinja version = 2.11.3
libyaml = True
No config file found; using defaults
host_list declined parsing /runner/inventory/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /runner/inventory/hosts inventory source with script plugin
ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'info'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.
The error appears to be in '/runner/project/collections/ansible_collections/dellemc/powerstore/docs/samples/capacity_volumes.yml': line 15, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
tasks:
- name: Get the details of the array
^ here

[sundarrd]

May be i need to build a custom EE for this ,

[rawstorage]

https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/l/dell-powermax-ansible-modules-best-practices-1/creating-ansible-execution-environments-using-ansible-builder