community.network.ce_ntp_auth module – Manages NTP authentication configuration on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 4.0.2).

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.ce_ntp_auth.

Synopsis

  • Manages NTP authentication configuration on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auth_mode

string

Specify authentication algorithm.

Choices:

  • "hmac-sha256"

  • "md5"

auth_pwd

string

Plain text with length of 1 to 255, encrypted text with length of 20 to 392.

auth_type

string

Whether the given password is in cleartext or has been encrypted. If in cleartext, the device will encrypt it before storing it.

Choices:

  • "text"

  • "encrypt" ← (default)

authentication

string

Configure ntp authentication enable or unconfigure ntp authentication enable.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

key_id

string / required

Authentication key identifier (numeric).

state

string

Manage the state of the resource.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

trusted_key

string

Whether the given key is required to be supplied by a time source for the device to synchronize to the time source.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable" ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • If state=absent, the module will attempt to remove the given key configuration. If a matching key configuration isn’t found on the device, the module will fail.

  • If state=absent and authentication=on, authentication will be turned on.

  • If state=absent and authentication=off, authentication will be turned off.

  • Recommended connection is network_cli.

  • This module also works with local connections for legacy playbooks.

Examples

- name: NTP AUTH test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - name: "Configure ntp authentication key-id"
    community.network.ce_ntp_auth:
      key_id: 32
      auth_mode: md5
      auth_pwd: 11111111111111111111111

  - name: "Configure ntp authentication key-id and trusted authentication keyid"
    community.network.ce_ntp_auth:
      key_id: 32
      auth_mode: md5
      auth_pwd: 11111111111111111111111
      trusted_key: enable

  - name: "Configure ntp authentication key-id and authentication enable"
    community.network.ce_ntp_auth:
      key_id: 32
      auth_mode: md5
      auth_pwd: 11111111111111111111111
      authentication: enable

  - name: "Unconfigure ntp authentication key-id and trusted authentication keyid"
    community.network.ce_ntp_auth:
      key_id: 32
      state: absent

  - name: "Unconfigure ntp authentication key-id and authentication enable"
    community.network.ce_ntp_auth:
      key_id: 32
      authentication: enable
      state: absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

changed

boolean

check to see if a change was made on the device

Returned: always

Sample: true

end_state

dictionary

k/v pairs of ntp authentication after module execution

Returned: always

Sample: {"authentication": "off", "authentication-keyid": [{"auth_mode": "md5", "key_id": "1", "trusted_key": "disable"}, {"auth_mode": "md5", "key_id": "32", "trusted_key": "enable"}]}

existing

dictionary

k/v pairs of existing ntp authentication

Returned: always

Sample: {"authentication": "off", "authentication-keyid": [{"auth_mode": "md5", "key_id": "1", "trusted_key": "disable"}]}

proposed

dictionary

k/v pairs of parameters passed into module

Returned: always

Sample: {"auth_mode": "md5", "auth_pwd": "1111", "auth_type": "text", "authentication": "enable", "key_id": "32", "state": "present", "trusted_key": "enable"}

state

string

state as sent in from the playbook

Returned: always

Sample: "present"

updates

list / elements=string

command sent to the device

Returned: always

Sample: ["ntp authentication-key 32 md5 1111", "ntp trusted-key 32", "ntp authentication enable"]

Authors

  • Zhijin Zhou (@QijunPan)