cisco.aci.aci_vmm_vswitch_policy – Manage vSwitch policy for VMware virtual domains profiles (vmm:DomP)
Note
This plugin is part of the cisco.aci collection (version 2.1.0).
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.aci
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.aci.aci_vmm_vswitch_policy
.
Parameters
Parameter |
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User-defined string for annotating an object. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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Name of the fabric access CDP policy. |
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The X.509 certificate name attached to the APIC AAA user used for signature-based authentication. If a If PEM-formatted content was provided for If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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Name of the virtual domain profile. |
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List of enhanced LAG policies if vSwitch needs to be connected via VPC. |
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LACP port channel mode. Choices:
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Load balancing mode of the port channel. See also https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/apic-mim-ref-421/docs/MO-lacpEnhancedLagPol.html. Choices:
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Name of the enhanced Lag policy. |
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Number of uplinks, must be between 2 and 8. |
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IP Address or hostname of APIC resolvable by Ansible control host. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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Name of the fabric access LLDP policy. |
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VMWare only. Name of the fabric access MTU policy. |
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Parameters for the netflow exporter policy |
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Specifies the delay in seconds that NetFlow waits after the active flow is initiated, after which NetFlow sends the collected data. The range is from 60 to 3600. The default value is 60 |
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Specifies the delay in seconds that NetFlow waits after the idle flow is initiated, after which NetFlow sends the collected data. The range is from 10 to 600. The default value is 15. |
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Name of the netflow exporter policy |
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(VDS only) Specifies how many packets that NetFlow will drop after every collected packet. If you specify a value of 0, then NetFlow does not drop any packets. The range is from 0 to 1000. The default value is 0. |
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Influence the output of this ACI module.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Choices:
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Path to a file that will be used to dump the ACI JSON configuration objects generated by the module. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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User-defined string for the ownerKey attribute of an ACI object. This attribute represents a key for enabling clients to own their data for entity correlation. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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User-defined string for the ownerTag attribute of an ACI object. This attribute represents a tag for enabling clients to add their own data. For example, to indicate who created this object. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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The password to use for authentication. This option is mutual exclusive with If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variables |
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Port number to be used for REST connection. The default value depends on parameter If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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Name of the fabric access port-channel policy. |
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Either a PEM-formatted private key file or the private key content used for signature-based authentication. This value also influences the default This option is mutual exclusive with If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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Use Use Choices:
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SCVMM only. Name of the STP policy. |
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The socket level timeout in seconds. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Default: 30 |
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If If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Choices:
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If If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Choices:
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The username to use for authentication. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variables Default: “admin” |
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If This should only set to If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Choices:
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The VM platform for VMM Domains. Support for Kubernetes was added in ACI v3.0. Support for CloudFoundry, OpenShift and Red Hat was added in ACI v3.1. Choices:
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See Also
See also
- cisco.aci.aci_domain
The official documentation on the cisco.aci.aci_domain module.
- APIC Management Information Model reference
More information about the internal APIC classes vmm:DomP
- 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 vSwitch policy with LLDP
cisco.aci.aci_vmm_vswitch_policy:
host: apic
username: admin
password: SomeSecretPassword
lldp_policy: LLDP_ENABLED
domain: vmware_dom
vm_provider: vmware
state: present
- name: Add a vSwitch policy with link aggregation
cisco.aci.aci_vmm_vswitch_policy:
host: apic
username: admin
password: SomeSecretPassword
port_channel_policy: LACP_ACTIVE
lldp_policy: LLDP_ENABLED
domain: vmware_dom
vm_provider: vmware
enhanced_lag:
- name: my_lacp_uplink
lacp_mode: active
load_balancing_mode: src-dst-ip
number_uplinks: 2
state: present
- name: Remove vSwitch Policy from VMware VMM domain
cisco.aci.aci_vmm_vswitch_policy:
host: apic
username: admin
password: SomeSecretPassword
domain: vmware_dom
vm_provider: vmware
state: absent
- name: Query the vSwitch policy of the VMWare domain
cisco.aci.aci_vmm_vswitch_policy:
host: apic
username: admin
password: SomeSecretPassword
domain: vmware_dom
vm_provider: vmware
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 |
Description |
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The existing configuration from the APIC after the module has finished Returned: success Sample: [{“fvTenant”: {“attributes”: {“descr”: “Production environment”, “dn”: “uni/tn-production”, “name”: “production”, “nameAlias”: “”, “ownerKey”: “”, “ownerTag”: “”}}}] |
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The error information as returned from the APIC Returned: failure Sample: {“code”: “122”, “text”: “unknown managed object class foo”} |
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The filter string used for the request Returned: failure or debug Sample: “?rsp-prop-include=config-only” |
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The HTTP method used for the request to the APIC Returned: failure or debug Sample: “POST” |
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The original configuration from the APIC before the module has started Returned: info Sample: [{“fvTenant”: {“attributes”: {“descr”: “Production”, “dn”: “uni/tn-production”, “name”: “production”, “nameAlias”: “”, “ownerKey”: “”, “ownerTag”: “”}}}] |
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The assembled configuration from the user-provided parameters Returned: info Sample: {“fvTenant”: {“attributes”: {“descr”: “Production environment”, “name”: “production”}}} |
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The raw output returned by the APIC REST API (xml or json) Returned: parse error Sample: “\u003c?xml version=\”1.0\” encoding=\”UTF-8\”?\u003e\u003cimdata totalCount=\”1\”\u003e\u003cerror code=\”122\” text=\”unknown managed object class foo\”/\u003e\u003c/imdata\u003e” |
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The HTTP response from the APIC Returned: failure or debug Sample: “OK (30 bytes)” |
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The actual/minimal configuration pushed to the APIC Returned: info Sample: {“fvTenant”: {“attributes”: {“descr”: “Production environment”}}} |
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The HTTP status from the APIC Returned: failure or debug Sample: 200 |
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The HTTP url used for the request to the APIC Returned: failure or debug |
Authors
Manuel Widmer (@lumean)
Anvitha Jain (@anvitha-jain)