community.general.sensu_subscription module – Manage Sensu subscriptions

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.sensu_subscription.

Synopsis

  • Manage which sensu channels a machine should subscribe to

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

backup

boolean

Create a backup file (if yes), including the timestamp information so you

can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

name

string / required

The name of the channel

path

string

Path to the subscriptions json file

Default: “/etc/sensu/conf.d/subscriptions.json”

state

string

Whether the machine should subscribe or unsubscribe from the channel

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

Examples

# Subscribe to the nginx channel
- name: Subscribe to nginx checks
  community.general.sensu_subscription: name=nginx

# Unsubscribe from the common checks channel
- name: Unsubscribe from common checks
  community.general.sensu_subscription: name=common state=absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

reasons

list / elements=string

the reasons why the module changed or did not change something

Returned: success

Sample: [“channel subscription was absent and state is `present\u0027”]

Authors

  • Anders Ingemann (@andsens)