wti.remote.cpm_config_restore – Send operational parameters to WTI OOB and PDU devices

Note

This plugin is part of the wti.remote collection (version 1.0.3).

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 wti.remote.

To use it in a playbook, specify: wti.remote.cpm_config_restore.

New in version 2.9: of wti.remote

Synopsis

  • Send operational parameters to WTI OOB and PDU devices

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cpm_filename

string / required

This is the filename of the existing WTI device configuration file.

cpm_password

string / required

This is the Password of the WTI device to get the parameters from.

cpm_path

string

This is the directory path to the existing the WTI device configuration file.

Default: “/tmp/”

cpm_url

string / required

This is the URL of the WTI device to get the parameters from.

cpm_username

string / required

This is the Username of the WTI device to get the parameters from.

use_https

boolean

Designates to use an https connection or http connection.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

use_proxy

boolean

Flag to control if the lookup will observe HTTP proxy environment variables when present.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

validate_certs

boolean

If false, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used

on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • Use groups/cpm in module_defaults to set common options used between CPM modules.)

Examples

-   name: Get the Parameters for a WTI device
    cpm_config_restore:
        cpm_url: "nonexist.wti.com"
        cpm_username: "super"
        cpm_password: "super"
        cpm_path: "/tmp/"
        cpm_filename: "wti-192-10-10-239-2020-02-13T16-05-57-xml"
        use_https: true
        validate_certs: false

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

data

complex

The output XML configuration of the WTI device queried

Returned: always

filelength

integer

Length of the file uploaded in bytes

Returned: success

Sample: [{“filelength”: 329439}]

status

list / elements=string

List of status returns from backup operation

Returned: success

Sample: [{“code”: 0, “text”: “ok”, “unittimestamp”: “2020-02-14T00:18:57+00:00”}]

Authors

  • Western Telematic Inc. (@wtinetworkgear)