community.general.vertica_info module – Gathers Vertica database facts

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.vertica_info.

Synopsis

  • Gathers Vertica database information.

  • This module was called vertica_facts before Ansible 2.9, returning ansible_facts. Note that the community.general.vertica_info module no longer returns ansible_facts!

Requirements

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

  • unixODBC

  • pyodbc

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cluster

string

Name of the cluster running the schema.

Default: "localhost"

db

string

Name of the database running the schema.

login_password

string

The password used to authenticate with.

login_user

string

The username used to authenticate with.

Default: "dbadmin"

port

string

Database port to connect to.

Default: "5433"

Notes

Note

  • The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or sudo’ing to the dbadmin account on the host.

  • This module uses pyodbc, a Python ODBC database adapter. You must ensure that unixODBC and pyodbc are installed on the host and properly configured.

  • Configuring unixODBC for Vertica requires Driver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.so to be added to the Vertica section of either /etc/odbcinst.ini or $HOME/.odbcinst.ini and both ErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64 and DriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16 to be added to the Driver section of either /etc/vertica.ini or $HOME/.vertica.ini.

Examples

- name: Gathering vertica facts
  community.general.vertica_info: db=db_name
  register: result

- name: Print schemas
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ result.vertica_schemas }}"

Authors

  • Dariusz Owczarek (@dareko)