mso_site – Manage sites

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

  • Manage sites on Cisco ACI Multi-Site.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • Multi Site Orchestrator v2.1 or newer

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
apic_password
string / required
The password for the APICs.
apic_site_id
string / required
The site ID of the APICs.
apic_username
string / required
Default:
"admin"
The username for the APICs.
host
string / required
IP Address or hostname of the ACI Multi Site Orchestrator host.

aliases: hostname
labels
list
The labels for this site.
Labels that do not already exist will be automatically created.
location
-
Location of the site.
latitude
float
The latitude of the location of the site.
longitude
float
The longitude of the location of the site.
output_level
string
    Choices:
  • debug
  • info
  • normal ←
Influence the output of this ACI module.
normal means the standard output, incl. current dict
info adds informational output, incl. previous, proposed and sent dicts
debug adds debugging output, incl. filter_string, method, response, status and url information
password
string / required
The password to use for authentication.
This option is mutual exclusive with private_key. If private_key is provided too, it will be used instead.
port
integer
Port number to be used for the REST connection.
The default value depends on parameter `use_ssl`.
site
string / required
The name of the site.

aliases: name
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present ←
  • query
Use present or absent for adding or removing.
Use query for listing an object or multiple objects.
timeout
integer
Default:
30
The socket level timeout in seconds.
urls
list
A list of URLs to reference the APICs.
use_proxy
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.
use_ssl
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.
username
string
Default:
"admin"
The username to use for authentication.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only set to no when used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Notes

Note

  • Please read the Cisco ACI Guide for more detailed information on how to manage your ACI infrastructure using Ansible.
  • This module was written to support ACI Multi Site Orchestrator v2.1 or newer. Some or all functionality may not work on earlier versions.

Examples

- name: Add a new site
  mso_site:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    site: north_europe
    description: North European Datacenter
    apic_username: mso_admin
    apic_password: AnotherSecretPassword
    apic_site_id: 12
    urls:
    - 10.2.3.4
    - 10.2.4.5
    - 10.3.5.6
    labels:
    - NEDC
    - Europe
    - Diegem
    location:
      latitude: 50.887318
      longitude: 4.447084
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove a site
  mso_site:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    site: north_europe
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Query a site
  mso_site:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    site: north_europe
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

- name: Query all sites
  mso_site:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

Status

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

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