community.general.vertica_configuration – Updates Vertica configuration parameters.
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.vertica_configuration
.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
unixODBC
pyodbc
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
---|---|
Name of the Vertica cluster. Default: “localhost” |
|
Name of the Vertica database. |
|
The password used to authenticate with. |
|
The username used to authenticate with. Default: “dbadmin” |
|
Name of the parameter to update. |
|
Vertica cluster port to connect to. Default: “5433” |
|
Value of the parameter to be set. |
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
is 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
.