community.general.rax_mon_notification – Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring notification.
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).
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 community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.rax_mon_notification
.
Synopsis
Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring notification that specifies a channel that can be used to communicate alarms, such as email, webhooks, or PagerDuty. Rackspace monitoring module flow | rax_mon_entity -> rax_mon_check -> rax_mon_notification -> rax_mon_notification_plan -> rax_mon_alarm
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python >= 2.6
pyrax
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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Rackspace API key, overrides credentials. |
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The URI of the authentication service. If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/ |
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File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided. |
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Dictionary of key-value pairs used to initialize the notification. Required keys and meanings vary with notification type. See http://docs.rackspace.com/cm/api/v1.0/cm-devguide/content/ service-notification-types-crud.html for details. |
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Environment as configured in ~/.pyrax.cfg, see https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration. |
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Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone. Default: “rackspace” |
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Defines a friendly name for this notification. String between 1 and 255 characters long. |
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A supported notification type. Choices:
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Region to create an instance in. |
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Ensure that the notification with this Choices:
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The tenant ID used for authentication. |
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The tenant name used for authentication. |
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Rackspace username, overrides credentials. |
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Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints. Choices:
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Notes
Note
The following environment variables can be used,
RAX_USERNAME
,RAX_API_KEY
,RAX_CREDS_FILE
,RAX_CREDENTIALS
,RAX_REGION
.RAX_CREDENTIALS
andRAX_CREDS_FILE
points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticatingRAX_USERNAME
andRAX_API_KEY
obviate the use of a credentials fileRAX_REGION
defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)
Examples
- name: Monitoring notification example
gather_facts: False
hosts: local
connection: local
tasks:
- name: Email me when something goes wrong.
rax_mon_entity:
credentials: ~/.rax_pub
label: omg
type: email
details:
address: [email protected]
register: the_notification
Authors
Ash Wilson (@smashwilson)