theforeman.foreman.discovery_rule module – Manage Host Discovery Rules

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.15.0).

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.discovery_rule.

New in theforeman.foreman 3.5.0

Synopsis

  • Manage Host Discovery Rules

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

enabled

boolean

Enable or disable the rule

Choices:

  • false

  • true

hostgroup

string

Hostgroup to assign hosts to

Required if state=present

hostname

string

Hostname to assign to discovered host(s)

When matching multiple hosts, must provide unique hostnames for each of the discovered hosts

locations

list / elements=string

List of locations the entity should be assigned to

max_count

integer

Maximum amount of hosts to provision with the rule

0 means no limit

name

string / required

Name of the Discovery Rule

organizations

list / elements=string

List of organizations the entity should be assigned to

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.

priority

integer

Priority of the rule

string

Expression to match newly discovered hosts with

Required if state=present

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.

state

string

State of the entity

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

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

Examples

- name: 'Ensure Discovery Rule'
  theforeman.foreman.discovery_rule:
    username: 'admin'
    password: 'secret_password'
    server_url: 'https://foreman.example.com'
    name: 'my-first-disco'
    search: 'mac = bb:bb:bb:bb:bb:bb'
    hostgroup: 'RedHat7-Base'
    hostname: 'servera'
    max_count: 1
    organizations:
      - 'MyOrg'
    locations:
      - 'DC1'

- name: 'Remove Discovery Rule'
  theforeman.foreman.discovery_rule:
    username: 'admin'
    password: 'secret_password'
    server_url: 'https://foreman.example.com'
    name: 'my-first-disco'
    state: 'absent'

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

discovery_rules

list / elements=dictionary

List of discovery rules.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Jeffrey van Pelt (@Thulium-Drake)