aci_aep - Manage attachable Access Entity Profile (AEP) objects (infra:AttEntityP, infra:ProvAcc)¶

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Connect to external virtual and physical domains by using attachable Access Entity Profiles (AEP) on Cisco ACI fabrics.

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
aep required		The name of the Attachable Access Entity Profile. aliases: aep_name, name
certificate_name		The X.509 certificate name attached to the APIC AAA user used for signature-based authentication. It defaults to the `private_key` basename, without extension. aliases: cert_name
description		Description for the AEP. aliases: descr
host required		IP Address or hostname of APIC resolvable by Ansible control host. aliases: hostname
infra_vlan bool (added in 2.5)	Choices: no ← yes	Enable infrastructure VLAN. The hypervisor functions of the AEP. `no` will disable the infrastructure vlan if it is enabled. aliases: infrastructure_vlan
output_level	Choices: debug info normal ←	Influence the output of this ACI module. `normal` means the standard output, incl. `current` dict `info` adds informational output, incl. `previous`, `proposed` and `sent` dicts `debug` adds debugging output, incl. `filter_string`, `method`, `response`, `status` and `url` information
password required		The password to use for authentication. This option is mutual exclusive with `private_key`. If `private_key` is provided too, it will be used instead.
port		Port number to be used for REST connection. The default value depends on parameter `use_ssl`.
private_key required		PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for signature-based authentication. The name of the key (without extension) is used as the certificate name in ACI, unless `certificate_name` is specified. This option is mutual exclusive with `password`. If `password` is provided too, it will be ignored. aliases: cert_key
state	Choices: absent present ← query	Use `present` or `absent` for adding or removing. Use `query` for listing an object or multiple objects.
timeout int	Default: 30	The socket level timeout in seconds.
use_proxy bool	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.
use_ssl bool	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.
username	Default: "admin"	The username to use for authentication. aliases: user
validate_certs bool	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only set to `no` when used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Notes ¶

Note

More information about the internal APIC classes infra:AttEntityP and infra:ProvAcc from the APIC Management Information Model reference.
Please read the Cisco ACI Guide for more detailed information on how to manage your ACI infrastructure using Ansible.

Examples ¶

- name: Add a new AEP
  aci_aep:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aep: ACI-AEP
    description: default
    state: present

- name: Remove an existing AEP
  aci_aep:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aep: ACI-AEP
    state: absent

- name: Query all AEPs
  aci_aep:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    state: query

- name: Query a specific AEP
  aci_aep:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aep: ACI-AEP
    state: query

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
current list	success	The existing configuration from the APIC after the module has finished Sample: [{'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'dn': 'uni/tn-production', 'ownerKey': '', 'name': 'production', 'descr': 'Production environment', 'nameAlias': '', 'ownerTag': ''}}}]
error dict	failure	The error information as returned from the APIC Sample: {'text': 'unknown managed object class foo', 'code': '122'}
filter_string string	failure or debug	The filter string used for the request Sample: ?rsp-prop-include=config-only
method string	failure or debug	The HTTP method used for the request to the APIC Sample: POST
previous list	info	The original configuration from the APIC before the module has started Sample: [{'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'dn': 'uni/tn-production', 'ownerKey': '', 'name': 'production', 'descr': 'Production', 'nameAlias': '', 'ownerTag': ''}}}]
proposed dict	info	The assembled configuration from the user-provided parameters Sample: {'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'name': 'production', 'descr': 'Production environment'}}}
raw string	parse error	The raw output returned by the APIC REST API (xml or json) Sample: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><imdata totalCount="1"><error code="122" text="unknown managed object class foo"/></imdata>
response string	failure or debug	The HTTP response from the APIC Sample: OK (30 bytes)
sent list	info	The actual/minimal configuration pushed to the APIC Sample: {'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production environment'}}}
status int	failure or debug	The HTTP status from the APIC Sample: 200
url string	failure or debug	The HTTP url used for the request to the APIC Sample: https://10.11.12.13/api/mo/uni/tn-production.json

Status ¶

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

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author ¶

Swetha Chunduri (@schunduri)

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