cisco.mso.ndo_template module – Manage Templates on Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO).

Note

This module is part of the cisco.mso collection (version 2.9.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.mso. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.mso.ndo_template.

Synopsis

  • Manage Templates on Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO).

Requirements

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

  • Multi Site Orchestrator v2.1 or newer

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

host

aliases: hostname

string

IP Address or hostname of the ACI Multi Site Orchestrator host.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_HOST will be used instead.

login_domain

string

The login domain name to use for authentication.

The default value is Local.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_LOGIN_DOMAIN will be used instead.

When using a HTTPAPI connection plugin the inventory variable ansible_httpapi_login_domain will be used if this attribute is not specified.

output_level

string

Influence the output of this MSO 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

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_OUTPUT_LEVEL will be used instead.

Choices:

  • "debug"

  • "info"

  • "normal" ← (default)

password

string

The password to use for authentication.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variables MSO_PASSWORD or ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.

port

integer

Port number to be used for the REST connection.

The default value depends on parameter `use_ssl`.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_PORT will be used instead.

sites

aliases: site

list / elements=dictionary

The list of sites attached to the template.

Required when type=l3out, type=monitoring_tenant or type=monitoring_access.

Set to an empty list sites=[] to remove all sites attached from the template.

Set to null sites=null or do not provide sites to avoid making changes to sites attached to the template.

name

string

The name of the site attached to the template.

state

string

Use absent for removing.

Use query for listing an object or multiple objects.

Use present for creating or updating.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "query" ← (default)

  • "present"

template

aliases: name

string

The name of the template.

template_id

aliases: id

string

The id of the template.

This parameter is required when the template needs to be updated.

template_type

aliases: type

string

The type of the template.

Choices:

  • "tenant"

  • "l3out"

  • "fabric_policy"

  • "fabric_resource"

  • "monitoring_tenant"

  • "monitoring_access"

  • "service_device"

tenant

string

The name of the tenant attached to the template.

Required when type=tenant, type=l3out, 0(type=monitoring_tenant) or 0(type=service_device).

timeout

integer

The socket level timeout in seconds.

The default value is 30 seconds.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_TIMEOUT will be used instead.

use_proxy

boolean

If false, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_USE_PROXY will be used instead.

The default is true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

use_ssl

boolean

If false, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_USE_SSL will be used instead.

When using a HTTPAPI connection plugin the inventory variable ansible_httpapi_use_ssl will be used if this attribute is not specified.

The default is false when using a HTTPAPI connection plugin (mso or nd) and true when using the legacy connection method (only for mso).

Choices:

  • false

  • true

username

string

The username to use for authentication.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variables MSO_USERNAME or ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

If false, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to false when used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

The default is true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

Notes

Note

  • This module was written to support Multi Site Orchestrator v2.1 or newer. Some or all functionality may not work on earlier versions.

Examples

- name: Create a new tenant policy template
  cisco.mso.ndo_template:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    template: ansible_tenant_policy
    template_type: tenant
    tenant: ansible_test_tenant
    state: present

- name: Create a new l3out policy template
  cisco.mso.ndo_template:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    template: ansible_l3out_policy_template
    template_type: l3out
    tenant: ansible_test_tenant
    sites:
      - name: ansible_test_site
    state: present

- name: Query a tenant policy template
  cisco.mso.ndo_template:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    template: ansible_tenant_policy
    template_type: tenant
    state: query
  register: query_new_tenant_policy_template

- name: Query all tenant policy templates
  cisco.mso.ndo_template:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    template_type: tenant
    state: query
  register: query_all

- name: Query all templates
  cisco.mso.ndo_template:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    state: query
  register: query_all

- name: Delete a tenant policy template
  cisco.mso.ndo_template:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    template: ansible_tenant_policy
    template_type: tenant
    state: absent

Authors

  • Akini Ross (@akinross)