theforeman.foreman.resource_info module – Gather information about resources

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.11.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.resource_info.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Gather information about resources

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

full_details

aliases: info

boolean

If True all details about the found resources are returned

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

organization

string

Scope the searched resource by organization

params

dictionary

Add parameters to the API call if necessary

If not specified, no additional parameters are passed

password

string / required

Password of the user accessing the Foreman server.

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

resource

string / required

Resource to search

Set to an invalid choice like foo see all available options.

string

Search query to use

If None, all resources are returned

server_url

string / required

URL of the Foreman server.

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

username

string / required

Username accessing the Foreman server.

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

validate_certs

boolean

Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server.

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

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying the entity

diff_mode

Support: full

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode

Notes

Note

  • Some resources don’t support scoping and will return errors when you pass organization or unknown data in params.

Examples

- name: "Read a Setting"
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    resource: settings
    search: name = foreman_url
  register: result
- debug:
    var: result.resources[0].value

- name: "Read all Registries"
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    resource: registries
  register: result
- debug:
    var: item.name
  with_items: "{{ result.resources }}"

- name: "Read all Organizations with full details"
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    resource: organizations
    full_details: true
  register: result
- debug:
    var: result.resources

- name: Get all existing subscriptions for organization with id 1
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    resource: subscriptions
    params:
      organization_id: 1
  register: result
- debug:
    var: result

- name: Get all existing activation keys for organization ACME
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    resource: activation_keys
    organization: ACME
  register: result
- debug:
    var: result

Return Values

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

Key

Description

resources

list / elements=string

Resource information

Returned: always

Authors

  • Sean O’Keeffe (@sean797)