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cisco.intersight.intersight_ntp_policy – NTP policy configuration for Cisco Intersight
Note
This plugin is part of the cisco.intersight collection (version 1.0.17).
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.intersight.
To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.intersight.intersight_ntp_policy.
New in version 2.10: of cisco.intersight
Synopsis
- NTP policy configuration for Cisco Intersight.
 - Used to configure NTP servers and timezone settings on Cisco Intersight managed devices.
 - For more information see Cisco Intersight.
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| api_key_id
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        Public API Key ID associated with the private key.
        
       
        If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_KEY_ID environment variable is used.
         | 
     |
| api_private_key
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        Filename (absolute path) or string of PEM formatted private key data to be used for Intersight API authentication.
        
       
        If a string is used, Ansible vault should be used to encrypt string data.
        
       
        Ex. ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-id tme@/Users/dsoper/Documents/vault_password_file '-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
        
       
        <your private key data>
        
       
        -----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----'
        
       
        If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable is used.
         | 
     |
| api_uri
        
        string
         | 
      Default: 
        "https://intersight.com/api/v1"
         | 
      
        
        URI used to access the Intersight API.
        
       
        If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_URI environment variable is used.
         | 
     
| description
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        The user-defined description of the NTP policy.
        
       
        Description can contain letters(a-z, A-Z), numbers(0-9), hyphen(-), period(.), colon(:), or an underscore(_).
        
       aliases: descr  | 
     |
| enable
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Enable or disable NTP.
         | 
     
| name
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        The name assigned to the NTP policy.
        
       
        The name must be between 1 and 62 alphanumeric characters, allowing special characters :-_.
         | 
     |
| ntp_servers
        
        list / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        List of NTP servers configured on the endpoint.
         | 
     |
| organization
        
        string
         | 
      Default: 
        "default"
         | 
      
        
        The name of the Organization this resource is assigned to.
        
       
        Profiles and Policies that are created within a Custom Organization are applicable only to devices in the same Organization.
         | 
     
| state
        
        string
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        If  
       present, will verify the resource is present and will create if needed.
       
        If  absent, will verify the resource is absent and will delete if needed.
        | 
     
| tags
        
        list / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        List of tags in Key:<user-defined key> Value:<user-defined value> format.
         | 
     |
| timezone
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        Timezone of services on the endpoint.
         | 
     |
| use_proxy
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        If  no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.
        | 
     
| validate_certs
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Boolean control for verifying the api_uri TLS certificate
         | 
     
Examples
- name: Configure NTP Policy
  cisco.intersight.intersight_ntp_policy:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    organization: DevNet
    name: lab-ntp
    description: NTP policy for lab use
    tags:
      - Key: Site
        Value: RCDN
    ntp_servers:
      - ntp.esl.cisco.com
    timezone: America/Chicago
- name: Delete NTP Policy
  cisco.intersight.intersight_ntp_policy:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    organization: DevNet
    name: lab-ntp
    state: absent
  Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| Key | Returned | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| api_repsonse
        
        dictionary
         | 
      always | 
        
        The API response output returned by the specified resource.
         Sample:
        
       
        {'api_response': {'Name': 'lab-ntp', 'ObjectType': 'ntp.Policy', 'Tags': [{'Key': 'Site', 'Value': 'RCDN'}]}}
         | 
     
Authors
- David Soper (@dsoper2)
 
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/cisco/intersight/intersight_ntp_policy_module.html