cisco.ucs.ucs_graphics_card_policy module – Manages UCS Graphics Card Policies on UCS Manager

Note

This module is part of the cisco.ucs collection (version 1.8.0).

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.ucs.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.ucs.ucs_graphics_card_policy.

New in version 2.9: of cisco.ucs

Synopsis

  • Manages UCS Graphics Card Policies on UCS Manager.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • ucsmsdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

description

aliases: descr

string

A user-defined description of the organization.

Enter up to 256 characters.

You can use any characters or spaces except the following:

` (accent mark), (backslash), ^ (carat), ” (double quote)

= (equal sign), > (greater than), < (less than), ‘ (single quote).

graphics_card_mode

string

Set the Graphics Card Mode.

Choices:

  • any-configuration

  • compute

  • graphics

hostname

string / required

IP address or hostname of Cisco UCS Manager.

Modules can be used with the UCS Platform Emulator https://cs.co/ucspe

name

string / required

The name of the organization.

Enter up to 16 characters.

You can use any characters or spaces except the following:

` (accent mark), (backslash), ^ (carat), ” (double quote)

= (equal sign), > (greater than), < (less than), ‘ (single quote).

org_dn

string

Org dn (distinguished name)

Default: “org-root”

password

string / required

Password for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.

port

integer

Port number to be used during connection (by default uses 443 for https and 80 for http connection).

proxy

string

If use_proxy is no, specfies proxy to be used for connection. e.g. ‘http://proxy.xy.z:8080’

state

string

If absent, will remove organization.

If present, will create or update organization.

Choices:

  • absent

  • present ← (default)

use_proxy

boolean

If no, will not use the proxy as defined by system environment variable.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

use_ssl

boolean

If no, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

username

string

Username for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.

Default: “admin”

Examples

- name: Add UCS Graphics Card Policy
  cisco.ucs.ucs_graphics_card_policy:
    hostname: "{{ ucs_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ ucs_username }}"
    password: "{{ ucs_password }}"
    state: present
    description: Any Graphics Mode Policy
    name: any_graphics
    graphics_card_mode: any-configuration
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Add UCS Graphics Card Policy in an Organization
  cisco.ucs.ucs_graphics_card_policy:
    hostname: "{{ ucs_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ ucs_username }}"
    password: "{{ ucs_password }}"
    state: present
    org_dn: org-root/org-prod
    description: Any Graphics Mode Policy
    name: prod_graphics
    graphics_card_mode: any-configuration
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Update UCS Graphics Card Policy in an Organization
  cisco.ucs.ucs_graphics_card_policy:
    hostname: "{{ ucs_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ ucs_username }}"
    password: "{{ ucs_password }}"
    state: present
    org_dn: org-root/org-prod
    description: Graphics Mode Policy
    name: prod_graphics
    graphics_card_mode: graphics
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Update UCS Graphics Card Policy in an Organization
  cisco.ucs.ucs_graphics_card_policy:
    hostname: "{{ ucs_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ ucs_username }}"
    password: "{{ ucs_password }}"
    state: present
    org_dn: org-root/org-prod
    description: Compute Mode Policy
    name: prod_graphics
    graphics_card_mode: compute
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete UCS Graphics Card Policy in an Organization
  cisco.ucs.ucs_graphics_card_policy:
    hostname: "{{ ucs_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ ucs_username }}"
    password: "{{ ucs_password }}"
    state: absent
    org_dn: org-root/org-prod
    name: prod_graphics
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete UCS Graphics Card Policy
  cisco.ucs.ucs_graphics_card_policy:
    hostname: "{{ ucs_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ ucs_username }}"
    password: "{{ ucs_password }}"
    state: absent
    name: any_graphics
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

  • John McDonough (@movinalot)