cisco.mso.mso_site module – Manage sites

Note

This module is part of the cisco.mso collection (version 2.4.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.mso.mso_site.

Synopsis

  • Manage sites on Cisco ACI Multi-Site.

Requirements

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

  • Multi Site Orchestrator v2.1 or newer

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

apic_login_domain

string

The AAA login domain for the username for the APICs.

The apic_login_domain attribute is not supported when using with ND platform.

See the ND collection for complete site management.

apic_password

string

The password for the APICs.

The apic_password attribute is not supported when using with ND platform.

See the ND collection for complete site management.

apic_site_id

string

The site ID of the APICs.

apic_username

string

The username for the APICs.

The apic_username attribute is not supported when using with ND platform.

See the ND collection for complete site management.

Default: "admin"

host

aliases: hostname

string

IP Address or hostname of the ACI Multi Site Orchestrator host.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_HOST will be used instead.

labels

list / elements=string

The labels for this site.

Labels that do not already exist will be automatically created.

The labels attribute is not supported when using with ND platform.

See the ND collection for complete site management.

location

dictionary

Location of the site.

The location attribute is not supported when using with ND platform.

See the ND collection for complete site management.

latitude

float

The latitude of the location of the site.

longitude

float

The longitude of the location of the site.

login_domain

string

The login domain name to use for authentication.

The default value is Local.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_LOGIN_DOMAIN will be used instead.

output_level

string

Influence the output of this MSO module.

normal means the standard output, incl. current dict

info adds informational output, incl. previous, proposed and sent dicts

debug adds debugging output, incl. filter_string, method, response, status and url information

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_OUTPUT_LEVEL will be used instead.

Choices:

  • "debug"

  • "info"

  • "normal" ← (default)

password

string

The password to use for authentication.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variables MSO_PASSWORD or ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.

port

integer

Port number to be used for the REST connection.

The default value depends on parameter `use_ssl`.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_PORT will be used instead.

site

aliases: name

string

The name of the site.

state

string

Use present or absent for adding or removing.

Use query for listing an object or multiple objects.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "query"

timeout

integer

The socket level timeout in seconds.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_TIMEOUT will be used instead.

Default: 30

urls

list / elements=string

A list of URLs to reference the APICs.

The urls attribute is not supported when using with ND platform.

See the ND collection for complete site management.

use_proxy

boolean

If false, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_USE_PROXY will be used instead.

The default is true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

use_ssl

boolean

If false, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_USE_SSL will be used instead.

When using a HTTPAPI connection plugin the inventory variable ansible_httpapi_use_ssl will be used if this attribute is not specified.

The default is false when using a HTTPAPI connection plugin (mso or nd) and true when using the legacy connection method (only for mso).

Choices:

  • false

  • true

username

string

The username to use for authentication.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variables MSO_USERNAME or ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

If false, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to false when used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable MSO_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

The default is true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

Notes

Note

  • This module was written to support Multi Site Orchestrator v2.1 or newer. Some or all functionality may not work on earlier versions.

Examples

- name: Add a new site
  cisco.mso.mso_site:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    site: north_europe
    description: North European Datacenter
    apic_username: mso_admin
    apic_password: AnotherSecretPassword
    apic_site_id: 12
    urls:
    - 10.2.3.4
    - 10.2.4.5
    - 10.3.5.6
    labels:
    - NEDC
    - Europe
    - Diegem
    location:
      latitude: 50.887318
      longitude: 4.447084
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove a site
  cisco.mso.mso_site:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    site: north_europe
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Query a site
  cisco.mso.mso_site:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    site: north_europe
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

- name: Query all sites
  cisco.mso.mso_site:
    host: mso_host
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)