community.general.ipwcli_dns module – Manage DNS Records for Ericsson IPWorks via ipwcli

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.7).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ipwcli_dns.

New in community.general 0.2.0

Synopsis

  • Manage DNS records for the Ericsson IPWorks DNS server. The module will use the ipwcli to deploy the DNS records.

Aliases: net_tools.ipwcli_dns

Requirements

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

  • ipwcli (installed on Ericsson IPWorks)

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

address

string

The IP address for the A or AAAA record.

Required for type=A or type=AAAA.

container

string / required

Sets the container zone for the record.

dnsname

string / required

Name of the record.

flags

string

Sets one of the possible flags of NAPTR record.

Required for type=NAPTR.

Choices:

  • "S"

  • "A"

  • "U"

  • "P"

order

integer

Sets the order of the NAPTR record.

Required for type=NAPTR.

password

string / required

Password to login on ipwcli.

port

integer

Sets the port of the SRV record.

Required for type=SRV.

preference

integer

Sets the preference of the NAPTR record.

Required for type=NAPTR.

priority

integer

Sets the priority of the SRV record.

Default: 10

replacement

string

Sets the replacement of the NAPTR record.

Required for type=NAPTR.

service

string

Sets the service of the NAPTR record.

Required for type=NAPTR.

state

string

Whether the record should exist or not.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

target

string

Sets the target of the SRV record.

Required for type=SRV.

ttl

integer

Sets the TTL of the record.

Default: 3600

type

string / required

Type of the record.

Choices:

  • "NAPTR"

  • "SRV"

  • "A"

  • "AAAA"

username

string / required

Username to login on ipwcli.

weight

integer

Sets the weight of the SRV record.

Default: 10

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

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

Notes

Note

  • To make the DNS record changes effective, you need to run update dnsserver on the ipwcli.

Examples

- name: Create A record
  community.general.ipwcli_dns:
    dnsname: example.com
    type: A
    container: ZoneOne
    address: 127.0.0.1

- name: Remove SRV record if exists
  community.general.ipwcli_dns:
    dnsname: _sip._tcp.test.example.com
    type: SRV
    container: ZoneOne
    ttl: 100
    state: absent
    target: example.com
    port: 5060

- name: Create NAPTR record
  community.general.ipwcli_dns:
    dnsname: test.example.com
    type: NAPTR
    preference: 10
    container: ZoneOne
    ttl: 100
    order: 10
    service: 'SIP+D2T'
    replacement: '_sip._tcp.test.example.com.'
    flags: S

Return Values

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

Key

Description

record

string

The created record from the input params

Returned: always

Authors

  • Christian Wollinger (@cwollinger)