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pagerduty - Create PagerDuty maintenance windows

Synopsis

  • This module will let you create PagerDuty maintenance windows

Options

parameter required default choices comments
desc
 no Created by Ansible
Short description of maintenance window.
hours
 no 1
Length of maintenance window in hours.
minutes
(added in 1.8)
 no
Maintenance window in minutes (this is added to the hours).
name
 yes
PagerDuty unique subdomain.
passwd
 yes
PagerDuty user password.
requester_id
(added in 1.8)
 yes
ID of user making the request. Only needed when using a token and creating a maintenance_window.
service
 no
A comma separated list of PagerDuty service IDs.

aliases: services
state
 yes
  • running
  • started
  • ongoing
  • absent
Create a maintenance window or get a list of ongoing windows.
token
(added in 1.8)
 yes
A pagerduty token, generated on the pagerduty site. Can be used instead of user/passwd combination.
user
 yes
PagerDuty user ID.
validate_certs
(added in 1.5.1)
 no yes
  • yes
  • no
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

# List ongoing maintenance windows using a user/passwd
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: example@example.com
    passwd: password123
    state: ongoing

# List ongoing maintenance windows using a token
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    state: ongoing

# Create a 1 hour maintenance window for service FOO123, using a user/passwd
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: example@example.com
    passwd: password123
    state: running
    service: FOO123

# Create a 5 minute maintenance window for service FOO123, using a token
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    hours: 0
    minutes: 5
    state: running
    service: FOO123


# Create a 4 hour maintenance window for service FOO123 with the description "deployment".
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: example@example.com
    passwd: password123
    state: running
    service: FOO123
    hours: 4
    desc: deployment
  register: pd_window

# Delete the previous maintenance window
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: example@example.com
    passwd: password123
    state: absent
    service: '{{ pd_window.result.maintenance_window.id }}'

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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