cisco.ucs.ucs_timezone module – Configures timezone on Cisco UCS Manager

Note

This module is part of the cisco.ucs collection (version 1.14.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.ucs.ucs_timezone.

Synopsis

  • Configures timezone on Cisco UCS Manager.

Requirements

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

  • ucsmsdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

admin_state

string

The admin_state setting

The enabled admin_state indicates the timezone configuration is utilized by UCS Manager.

The disabled admin_state indicates the timezone configuration is ignored by UCS Manager.

Choices:

  • "disabled"

  • "enabled" ← (default)

description

aliases: descr

string

A user-defined description of the timezone.

Enter up to 256 characters.

You can use any characters or spaces except the following:

` (accent mark), (backslash), ^ (carat), ” (double quote), = (equal sign), > (greater than), < (less than), or ‘ (single quote).

hostname

string / required

IP address or hostname of Cisco UCS Manager.

Modules can be used with the UCS Platform Emulator https://cs.co/ucspe

password

string / required

Password for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.

port

integer

Port number to be used during connection (by default uses 443 for https and 80 for http connection).

proxy

string

If use_proxy is no, specfies proxy to be used for connection. e.g. ‘http://proxy.xy.z:8080’

state

string

If absent, will unset timezone.

If present, will set or update timezone.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

timezone

string

The timezone name.

Time zone names are from the tz database

The timezone name is case sensitive.

The timezone name can be between 0 and 510 alphanumeric characters.

You cannot use spaces or any special characters other than

“-” (hyphen), “_” (underscore), “/” (backslash).

use_proxy

boolean

If no, will not use the proxy as defined by system environment variable.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

use_ssl

boolean

If no, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

username

string

Username for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.

Default: "admin"

Examples

- name: Configure Time Zone
  cisco.ucs.ucs_timezone:
    hostname: 172.16.143.150
    username: admin
    password: password
    state: present
    admin_state: enabled
    timezone: America/Los_Angeles
    description: 'Time Zone for Los Angeles'

- name: Unconfigure Time Zone
  cisco.ucs.ucs_timezone:
    hostname: 172.16.143.150
    username: admin
    password: password
    state: absent
    admin_state: disabled

Authors

  • David Soper (@dsoper2)

  • John McDonough (@movinalot)

  • CiscoUcs (@CiscoUcs)