theforeman.foreman.setting module – Manage Settings

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.setting.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Manage Settings

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

name

string / required

Name of the Setting

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.

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)

value

any

value to set the Setting to

if missing, reset to 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

  • To obtain a list of possible settings for your installation, use the theforeman.foreman.setting_info module or the hammer settings list command and look for the name attribute.

  • The web interface by default shows the full_name attribute, which can’t be used with this module.

Examples

- name: "Set a Setting"
  theforeman.foreman.setting:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "http_proxy"
    value: "http://localhost:8088"

- name: "Reset a Setting"
  theforeman.foreman.setting:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "http_proxy"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

entity

dictionary

Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.

Returned: success

settings

list / elements=dictionary

List of settings.

Returned: success

foreman_setting

dictionary

Created / Updated state of the setting (deprecated)

Returned: success

Authors

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG