cisco.dnac.site_intent module – Resource module for Site operations

Note

This module is part of the cisco.dnac collection (version 6.7.2).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.dnac.site_intent.

New in cisco.dnac 6.6.0

Synopsis

  • Manage operation create, update and delete of the resource Sites.

  • Creates site with area/building/floor with specified hierarchy.

  • Updates site with area/building/floor with specified hierarchy.

  • Deletes site with area/building/floor with specified hierarchy.

Requirements

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

  • dnacentersdk == 2.4.5

  • python >= 3.5

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

config

list / elements=dictionary / required

List of details of site being managed.

site

dictionary

Site Details.

area

dictionary

Site Create’s area.

name

string

Name of the area (eg Area1).

parentName

string

Parent name of the area to be created.

building

dictionary

Building Details.

address

string

Address of the building to be created.

latitude

integer

Latitude coordinate of the building (eg 37.338).

longitude

integer

Longitude coordinate of the building (eg -121.832).

name

string

Name of the building (eg building1).

parentName

string

Parent name of building to be created.

floor

dictionary

Site Create’s floor.

height

integer

Height of the floor (eg 15).

length

integer

Length of the floor (eg 100).

name

string

Name of the floor (eg floor-1).

parentName

string

Parent name of the floor to be created.

rfModel

string

Type of floor. Allowed values are ‘Cubes And Walled Offices’, ‘Drywall Office Only’, ‘Indoor High Ceiling’, ‘Outdoor Open Space’.

width

integer

Width of the floor (eg 100).

type

string

Type of site to create/update/delete (eg area, building, floor).

dnac_debug

boolean

Flag for Cisco DNA Center SDK to enable debugging.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

dnac_host

string / required

The Cisco DNA Center hostname.

dnac_log

boolean

Flag for logging playbook execution details. If set to true the log file will be created at the location of the execution with the name dnac.log

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

dnac_password

string

The Cisco DNA Center password to authenticate.

dnac_port

string

The Cisco DNA Center port.

Default: "443"

dnac_username

aliases: user

string

The Cisco DNA Center username to authenticate.

Default: "admin"

dnac_verify

boolean

Flag to enable or disable SSL certificate verification.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

dnac_version

string

Informs the SDK which version of Cisco DNA Center to use.

Default: "2.2.3.3"

state

string

The state of DNAC after module completion.

Choices:

  • "merged" ← (default)

  • "deleted"

validate_response_schema

boolean

Flag for Cisco DNA Center SDK to enable the validation of request bodies against a JSON schema.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • SDK Method used are sites.Sites.create_site, sites.Sites.update_site, sites.Sites.delete_site

  • Paths used are post /dna/intent/api/v1/site, put dna/intent/api/v1/site/{siteId}, delete dna/intent/api/v1/site/{siteId}

  • Does not support check_mode

  • The plugin runs on the control node and does not use any ansible connection plugins, but instead the embedded connection manager from Cisco DNAC SDK

  • The parameters starting with dnac_ are used by the Cisco DNAC Python SDK to establish the connection

Examples

- name: Create a new building site
  cisco.dnac.site_intent:
    dnac_host: "{{dnac_host}}"
    dnac_username: "{{dnac_username}}"
    dnac_password: "{{dnac_password}}"
    dnac_verify: "{{dnac_verify}}"
    dnac_port: "{{dnac_port}}"
    dnac_version: "{{dnac_version}}"
    dnac_debug: "{{dnac_debug}}"
    dnac_log: "{{dnac_log}}"
    config:
        site:
          building:
            address: string
            latitude: 0
            longitude: 0
            name: string
            parentName: string
        type: string

Return Values

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

Key

Description

response_1

dictionary

A dictionary with API execution details as returned by the Cisco DNAC Python SDK

Returned: always

Sample: "{\n  \"response\":\n    {\n         \"bapiExecutionId\": String,\n         \"bapiKey\": String,\n         \"bapiName\": String,\n         \"endTime\": String,\n         \"endTimeEpoch\": 0,\n         \"runtimeInstanceId\": String,\n         \"siteId\": String,\n         \"startTime\": String,\n         \"startTimeEpoch\": 0,\n         \"status\": String,\n         \"timeDuration\": 0\n\n    },\n  \"msg\": \"string\"\n}\n"

response_2

dictionary

A dictionary with existing site details.

Returned: always

Sample: "{\n  \"response\":\n  {\n        \"site\": {},\n        \"siteId\": String,\n        \"type\": String\n  },\n  \"msg\": String\n}\n"

response_3

dictionary

A dictionary with API execution details as returned by the Cisco DNAC Python SDK

Returned: always

Sample: "{\n  \"response\":\n    {\n         \"bapiError\": String,\n         \"bapiExecutionId\": String,\n         \"bapiKey\": String,\n         \"bapiName\": String,\n         \"endTime\": String,\n         \"endTimeEpoch\": 0,\n         \"runtimeInstanceId\": String,\n         \"startTime\": String,\n         \"startTimeEpoch\": 0,\n         \"status\": String,\n         \"timeDuration\": 0\n\n    },\n  \"msg\": \"string\"\n}\n"

response_4

list / elements=string

A list with the response returned by the Cisco DNAC Python

Returned: always

Sample: ["{\n   \"response\": []", "\n   \"msg\": String\n}\n"]

Authors

  • Madhan Sankaranarayanan (@madhansansel) Rishita Chowdhary (@rishitachowdhary)