community.vmware.vmware_custom_attribute module – Manage custom attributes definitions

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 6.1.0).

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 community.vmware.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vmware_custom_attribute.

New in community.vmware 3.2.0

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to add and remove custom attributes definitions for various vSphere objects.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

custom_attribute

string / required

Name of the custom attribute.

hostname

string

The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter server.

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

object_type

string / required

Type of the object the custom attribute is associated with.

Choices:

  • "Cluster"

  • "Datacenter"

  • "Datastore"

  • "DistributedVirtualPortgroup"

  • "DistributedVirtualSwitch"

  • "Folder"

  • "Global"

  • "HostSystem"

  • "ResourcePool"

  • "VirtualMachine"

password

aliases: pass, pwd

string

The password of the vSphere vCenter server.

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

port

integer

The port number of the vSphere vCenter server.

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

Default: 443

proxy_host

string

The address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.

The format is a hostname or a IP.

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

proxy_port

integer

The port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.

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

state

string

Manage definition of custom attributes.

If set to present and definition not present, then custom attribute definition is created.

If set to present and definition is present, then no action taken.

If set to absent and definition is present, then custom attribute definition is removed.

If set to absent and definition is absent, then no action taken.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

username

aliases: admin, user

string

The username of the vSphere vCenter server.

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

validate_certs

boolean

Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificates are not trusted.

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

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • All modules require API write access and hence are not supported on a free ESXi license.

  • All variables and VMware object names are case sensitive.

  • Modules may rely on the ‘requests’ python library, which does not use the system certificate store by default. You can specify the certificate store by setting the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable. Note having this variable set may cause a ‘false’ value for the ‘validate_certs’ option to be ignored in some cases. Example: ‘export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/your/ca_bundle.pem’

Examples

- name: Add VM Custom Attribute Definition
  community.vmware.vmware_custom_attribute:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    state: present
    object_type: VirtualMachine
    custom_attribute: custom_attr_def_1
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: defs

- name: Remove VM Custom Attribute Definition
  community.vmware.vmware_custom_attribute:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    state: absent
    object_type: VirtualMachine
    custom_attribute: custom_attr_def_1
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: defs

Authors

  • Mario Lenz (@mariolenz)