cisco.ucs.ucs_vlan_to_group module – Add VLANs to a VLAN Group. Requires VLAN and VLAN Group to already be created on UCS prior to running module.

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_vlan_to_group.

Synopsis

  • Add VLANs to VLAN Groups on Cisco UCS Manager.

Requirements

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

  • ucsmsdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

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 present, will verify VLANs are present and will create if needed.

If absent, will verify VLANs are absent and will delete if needed.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

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"

vlangroup

string / required

The name assigned to the VLAN Group.

The VLAN Group name is case sensitive.

This name can be between 1 and 32 alphanumeric characters.

You cannot use spaces or any special characters other than - (hyphen), “_” (underscore), : (colon), and . (period).

vlanname

string / required

The name assigned to the VLAN.

The VLAN name is case sensitive.

This name can be between 1 and 32 alphanumeric characters.

You cannot use spaces or any special characters other than - (hyphen), “_” (underscore), : (colon), and . (period).

Examples

- name: Configure VLAN
  cisco.ucs.ucs_vlan_to_group:
    hostname: 1.1.1.1
    username: admin
    password: password
    vlangroup: VLANGROUP
    vlanname: VLANNAME
    state: present
- name: Remove VLAN
  cisco.ucs.ucs_vlan_to_group:
    hostname: 1.1.1.1
    username: admin
    password: password
    vlangroup: VLANGROUP
    vlanname: VLANNAME
    state: absent

Authors

  • Derrick Johnson (@derricktj)