ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_event module – Create or delete an event in oVirt/RHV

Note

This module is part of the ovirt.ovirt collection (version 3.2.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_event.

New in ovirt.ovirt 1.0.0

Synopsis

• This module can be used to create or delete an event in oVirt/RHV.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.7

• ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.4.0

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
auth dictionary / required	Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:
ca_file string	A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates. The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates. If ca_file parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used. Default value is set by OVIRT_CAFILE environment variable.
compress boolean	Flag indicating if compression is used for connection. Choices: false true ← (default)
headers dictionary	Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.
hostname string	A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like `server.example.com`. Default value is set by OVIRT_HOSTNAME environment variable. Either url or hostname is required.
insecure boolean	A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked. Choices: false ← (default) true
kerberos boolean	A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication. Choices: false true
password string	The password of the user. Default value is set by OVIRT_PASSWORD environment variable.
timeout integer	Number of seconds to wait for response.
token string	Token to be used instead of login with username/password. Default value is set by OVIRT_TOKEN environment variable.
url string	A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`. Default value is set by OVIRT_URL environment variable. Either url or hostname is required.
username string	The name of the user, something like admin@internal. Default value is set by OVIRT_USERNAME environment variable.
cluster string	The id of the cluster associated with this event.
correlation_id string	The event correlation identifier. If not specified, the ‘correlation-id’ in the connection header will be used. If neither are available, it is not set.
custom_id integer	Custom ID for the event. This ID must be unique for each event. Required when state is present.
data_center string	The id of the data center associated with this event.
description string	Message for the event. Required when state is present.
fetch_nested boolean	If True the module will fetch additional data from the API. It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying nested_attributes. Choices: false ← (default) true
host string	The id of the host associated with this event.
id string	The event ID in the oVirt/RHV audit_log table. This ID is not the same as custom_id and is only used when state is absent. Required when state is absent.
nested_attributes list / elements=string	Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API. This parameter apply only when fetch_nested is true.
origin string	Originator of the event. Required when state is present.
poll_interval integer	Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent. Default: 3
severity string	Severity of the event. Required when state is present. Choices: "error" "normal" ← (default) "warning"
state string	Should the event be present/absent. The wait option must be set to false when state is absent. Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent"
storage_domain string	The id of the storage domain associated with this event.
template string	The id of the template associated with this event.
timeout integer	The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the instance to get into desired state. Default: 180
user string	The id of the user associated with this event.
vm string	The id of the VM associated with this event.
wait boolean	yes if the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state. Choices: false true ← (default)

Notes

Note

• In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.4.0

Examples

# Examples don't contain the auth parameter for simplicity,
# look at the ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication.

- name: Create an event
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_event:
    state: present
    description: "The file system /home on host xyz is almost full!"
    origin: "mymonitor"
    custom_id: 123456789
    severity: warning

- name: Create an event and link it to a specific object
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_event:
    state: present
    description: "The file system /home is almost full!"
    origin: "mymonitor"
    custom_id: 123456789
    severity: warning
    vm: "c79db183-46ef-44d1-95f9-1a368c516c19"

- name: Remove an event
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_event:
    state: absent
    id: 123456789
    wait: false

Return Values

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

Key	Description
event dictionary	Dictionary of all the Event attributes. All event attributes can be found at the following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/event Returned: On success.
id string	ID of the event that was created. Returned: On success.

Authors

• Chris Keller (@nasx)

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