community.general.clc_alert_policy module – Create or Delete Alert Policies at CenturyLink Cloud.
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).
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.clc_alert_policy.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python = 2.7
requests >= 2.5.0
clc-sdk
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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A list of recipient email ids to notify the alert. This is required for state ‘present’ |
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The alias of your CLC Account |
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The length of time in minutes that the condition must exceed the threshold. This is required for state ‘present’ |
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The alert policy id. This is mutually exclusive with name |
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The metric on which to measure the condition that will trigger the alert. This is required for state ‘present’ Choices:
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The name of the alert policy. This is mutually exclusive with id |
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Whether to create or delete the policy. Choices:
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The threshold that will trigger the alert when the metric equals or exceeds it. This is required for state ‘present’ This number represents a percentage and must be a value between 5.0 - 95.0 that is a multiple of 5.0 |
Notes
Note
To use this module, it is required to set the below environment variables which enables access to the Centurylink Cloud - CLC_V2_API_USERNAME, the account login id for the centurylink cloud - CLC_V2_API_PASSWORD, the account password for the centurylink cloud
Alternatively, the module accepts the API token and account alias. The API token can be generated using the CLC account login and password via the HTTP api call @ https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_V2_API_TOKEN, the API token generated from https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_ACCT_ALIAS, the account alias associated with the centurylink cloud
Users can set CLC_V2_API_URL to specify an endpoint for pointing to a different CLC environment.
Examples
# Note - You must set the CLC_V2_API_USERNAME And CLC_V2_API_PASSWD Environment variables before running these examples
---
- name: Create Alert Policy Example
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: False
connection: local
tasks:
- name: Create an Alert Policy for disk above 80% for 5 minutes
community.general.clc_alert_policy:
alias: wfad
name: 'alert for disk > 80%'
alert_recipients:
- test1@centurylink.com
- test2@centurylink.com
metric: 'disk'
duration: '00:05:00'
threshold: 80
state: present
register: policy
- name: Debug
ansible.builtin.debug: var=policy
- name: Delete Alert Policy Example
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: False
connection: local
tasks:
- name: Delete an Alert Policy
community.general.clc_alert_policy:
alias: wfad
name: 'alert for disk > 80%'
state: absent
register: policy
- name: Debug
ansible.builtin.debug: var=policy
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key |
Description |
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The alert policy information Returned: success Sample: {“actions”: [{“action”: “email”, “settings”: {“recipients”: [“user1@domain.com”, “user1@domain.com”]}}], “id”: “ba54ac54a60d4a4f1ed6d48c1ce240a7”, “links”: [{“href”: “/v2/alertPolicies/alias/ba54ac54a60d4a4fb1d6d48c1ce240a7”, “rel”: “self”, “verbs”: [“GET”, “DELETE”, “PUT”]}], “name”: “test_alert”, “triggers”: [{“duration”: “00:05:00”, “metric”: “disk”, “threshold”: 80.0}]} |
Authors
CLC Runner (@clc-runner)
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