community.network.avi_alertsyslogconfig module – Module for setup of AlertSyslogConfig Avi RESTful Object

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 3.3.0).

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 community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.avi_alertsyslogconfig.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • avisdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_context

dictionary

Avi API context that includes current session ID and CSRF Token.

This allows user to perform single login and re-use the session.

api_version

string

Avi API version of to use for Avi API and objects.

Default: “16.4.4”

avi_api_patch_op

string

Patch operation to use when using avi_api_update_method as patch.

Choices:

  • add

  • replace

  • delete

avi_api_update_method

string

Default method for object update is HTTP PUT.

Setting to patch will override that behavior to use HTTP PATCH.

Choices:

  • put ← (default)

  • patch

avi_credentials

dictionary

Avi Credentials dictionary which can be used in lieu of enumerating Avi Controller login details.

api_version

string

Avi controller version

Default: “16.4.4”

controller

string

Avi controller IP or SQDN

csrftoken

string

Avi controller API csrftoken to reuse existing session with session id

password

string

Avi controller password

port

string

Avi controller port

session_id

string

Avi controller API session id to reuse existing session with csrftoken

tenant

string

Avi controller tenant

Default: “admin”

tenant_uuid

string

Avi controller tenant UUID

timeout

string

Avi controller request timeout

Default: 300

token

string

Avi controller API token

username

string

Avi controller username

avi_disable_session_cache_as_fact

boolean

It disables avi session information to be cached as a fact.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

controller

string

IP address or hostname of the controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_CONTROLLER.

Default: “”

description

string

User defined description for alert syslog config.

name

string / required

A user-friendly name of the syslog notification.

password

string

Password of Avi user in Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_PASSWORD.

Default: “”

state

string

The state that should be applied on the entity.

Choices:

  • absent

  • present ← (default)

syslog_servers

string

The list of syslog servers.

tenant

string

Name of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.

Default: “admin”

tenant_ref

string

It is a reference to an object of type tenant.

tenant_uuid

string

UUID of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.

Default: “”

url

string

Avi controller URL of the object.

username

string

Username used for accessing Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_USERNAME.

Default: “”

uuid

string

Unique object identifier of the object.

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Create Alert Syslog object to forward all events to external syslog server
  community.network.avi_alertsyslogconfig:
    controller: '{{ controller }}'
    name: Roberts-syslog
    password: '{{ password }}'
    syslog_servers:
    - syslog_server: 10.10.0.100
      syslog_server_port: 514
      udp: true
    tenant_ref: admin
    username: '{{ username }}'

Return Values

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

Key

Description

obj

dictionary

AlertSyslogConfig (api/alertsyslogconfig) object

Returned: success, changed

Authors

  • Gaurav Rastogi (@grastogi23)