aci_contract – Manage contract resources (vz:BrCP)

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

• Manage Contract resources on Cisco ACI fabrics.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
certificate_name string		The X.509 certificate name attached to the APIC AAA user used for signature-based authentication. If a private_key filename was provided, this defaults to the private_key basename, without extension. If PEM-formatted content was provided for private_key, this defaults to the username value. aliases: cert_name
contract string / required		The name of the contract. aliases: contract_name, name
description string		Description for the contract. aliases: descr
dscp string	Choices: AF11 AF12 AF13 AF21 AF22 AF23 AF31 AF32 AF33 AF41 AF42 AF43 CS0 CS1 CS2 CS3 CS4 CS5 CS6 CS7 EF VA unspecified	The target Differentiated Service (DSCP) value. The APIC defaults to unspecified when unset during creation. aliases: target
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.
priority string	Choices: level1 level2 level3 unspecified	The desired QoS class to be used. The APIC defaults to unspecified when unset during creation.
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
scope string	Choices: application-profile context global tenant	The scope of a service contract. The APIC defaults to context when unset during creation.
state string	Choices: absent present ← query	Use present or absent for adding or removing. Use query for listing an object or multiple objects.
tenant string / required		The name of the tenant. aliases: tenant_name
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

• This module does not manage Contract Subjects, see aci_contract_subject to do this. Contract Subjects can still be removed using this module.

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

See Also

See also

aci_contract_subject – Manage initial Contract Subjects (vz:Subj)

The official documentation on the aci_contract_subject module.

aci_tenant – Manage tenants (fv:Tenant)

The official documentation on the aci_tenant module.

APIC Management Information Model reference

More information about the internal APIC class vz:BrCP.

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 new contract
  aci_contract:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    tenant: production
    contract: web_to_db
    description: Communication between web-servers and database
    scope: application-profile
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove an existing contract
  aci_contract:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    tenant: production
    contract: web_to_db
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Query a specific contract
  aci_contract:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    tenant: production
    contract: web_to_db
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

- name: Query all contracts
  aci_contract:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    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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