community.general.vertica_info – Gathers Vertica database facts.¶
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.vertica_info
.
Synopsis¶
Gathers Vertica database information.
This module was called
vertica_facts
before Ansible 2.9, returningansible_facts
. Note that the community.general.vertica_info module no longer returnsansible_facts
!
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
unixODBC
pyodbc
Parameters¶
Notes¶
Note
The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or sudo’ing to the
dbadmin
account on the host.This module uses
pyodbc
, a Python ODBC database adapter. You must ensure thatunixODBC
andpyodbc
are installed on the host and properly configured.Configuring
unixODBC
for Vertica requiresDriver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.so
to be added to theVertica
section of either/etc/odbcinst.ini
or$HOME/.odbcinst.ini
and bothErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64
andDriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16
to be added to theDriver
section of either/etc/vertica.ini
or$HOME/.vertica.ini
.