theforeman.foreman.host_errata_info module – Fetch information about Host Errata

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 4.2.0).

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 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.host_errata_info.

New in theforeman.foreman 2.1.0

Synopsis

  • Fetch information about Host Errata

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

content_view

string

Calculate Applicable Errata based on a particular Content View.

Required together with lifecycle_environment.

If this is set, organization also needs to be set.

host

string / required

Name of the host to fetch errata for.

lifecycle_environment

string

Calculate Applicable Errata based on a particular Lifecycle Environment.

Required together with content_view.

If this is set, organization also needs to be set.

location

string

Label of the Location to scope the search for.

organization

string

Name of the Organization to scope the search for.

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.

string

Search query to use

If None, all resources are returned.

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)

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: "List installable errata for host"
  theforeman.foreman.host_errata_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    host: "host.example.com"

- name: "List applicable errata for host"
  theforeman.foreman.host_errata_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    host: "host.example.com"
    lifecycle_environment: "Library"
    content_view: "Default Organization View"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

host_errata

list / elements=dictionary

List of all found errata for the host and their details

Returned: success

Authors

  • Evgeni Golov (@evgeni)