aci_aaa_user_certificate – Manage AAA user certificates (aaa:UserCert)

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

• Manage AAA user certificates on Cisco ACI fabrics.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
aaa_user string / required		The name of the user to add a certificate to.
aaa_user_type string	Choices: appuser user ←	Whether this is a normal user or an appuser.
certificate string		The PEM format public key extracted from the X.509 certificate. aliases: cert_data, certificate_data
certificate_name string		The name of the user certificate entry in ACI. aliases: cert_name
host string / required		IP Address or hostname of APIC resolvable by Ansible control host. aliases: hostname
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 REST connection. The default value depends on parameter use_ssl.
private_key string / required		Either a PEM-formatted private key file or the private key content used for signature-based authentication. This value also influences the default certificate_name that is used. This option is mutual exclusive with password. If password is provided too, it will be ignored. aliases: cert_key
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.
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. aliases: user
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

• The aaa_user must exist before using this module in your playbook. The aci_aaa_user module can be used for this.

See Also

See also

aci_aaa_user – Manage AAA users (aaa:User)

The official documentation on the aci_aaa_user module.

APIC Management Information Model reference

More information about the internal APIC class aaa:UserCert.

Cisco ACI Guide

Detailed information on how to manage your ACI infrastructure using Ansible.

Developing Cisco ACI modules

Detailed guide on how to write your own Cisco ACI modules to contribute.

Examples

- name: Add a certificate to user
  aci_aaa_user_certificate:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aaa_user: admin
    certificate_name: admin
    certificate_data: '{{ lookup("file", "pki/admin.crt") }}'
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove a certificate of a user
  aci_aaa_user_certificate:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aaa_user: admin
    certificate_name: admin
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Query a certificate of a user
  aci_aaa_user_certificate:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aaa_user: admin
    certificate_name: admin
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

- name: Query all certificates of a user
  aci_aaa_user_certificate:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aaa_user: admin
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
current list	success	The existing configuration from the APIC after the module has finished Sample: [{'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production environment', 'dn': 'uni/tn-production', 'name': 'production', 'nameAlias': '', 'ownerKey': '', 'ownerTag': ''}}}]
error dictionary	failure	The error information as returned from the APIC Sample: {'code': '122', 'text': 'unknown managed object class foo'}
filter_string string	failure or debug	The filter string used for the request Sample: ?rsp-prop-include=config-only
method string	failure or debug	The HTTP method used for the request to the APIC Sample: POST
previous list	info	The original configuration from the APIC before the module has started Sample: [{'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production', 'dn': 'uni/tn-production', 'name': 'production', 'nameAlias': '', 'ownerKey': '', 'ownerTag': ''}}}]
proposed dictionary	info	The assembled configuration from the user-provided parameters Sample: {'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production environment', 'name': 'production'}}}
raw string	parse error	The raw output returned by the APIC REST API (xml or json) Sample: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><imdata totalCount="1"><error code="122" text="unknown managed object class foo"/></imdata>
response string	failure or debug	The HTTP response from the APIC Sample: OK (30 bytes)
sent list	info	The actual/minimal configuration pushed to the APIC Sample: {'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production environment'}}}
status integer	failure or debug	The HTTP status from the APIC Sample: 200
url string	failure or debug	The HTTP url used for the request to the APIC Sample: https://10.11.12.13/api/mo/uni/tn-production.json

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

Authors

• Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

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