community.general.rax_mon_alarm – Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring alarm.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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 community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.rax_mon_alarm.

Synopsis

Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring alarm that associates an existing rax_mon_entity, rax_mon_check, and rax_mon_notification_plan with criteria that specify what conditions will trigger which levels of notifications. Rackspace monitoring module flow | rax_mon_entity -> rax_mon_check -> rax_mon_notification -> rax_mon_notification_plan -> rax_mon_alarm

Requirements

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

python >= 2.6
pyrax

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_key string		Rackspace API key, overrides credentials. aliases: password
auth_endpoint string		The URI of the authentication service. If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/
check_id string / required		ID of the check that should be alerted on. May be acquired by registering the value of a rax_mon_check task.
credentials path		File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided. aliases: creds_file
criteria string		Alarm DSL that describes alerting conditions and their output states. Must be between 1 and 16384 characters long. See http://docs.rackspace.com/cm/api/v1.0/cm-devguide/content/alerts-language.html for a reference on the alerting language.
disabled boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If yes, create this alarm, but leave it in an inactive state. Defaults to no.
entity_id string / required		ID of the entity this alarm is attached to. May be acquired by registering the value of a rax_mon_entity task.
env string		Environment as configured in ~/.pyrax.cfg, see https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration.
identity_type string	Default: "rackspace"	Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone.
label string / required		Friendly name for this alarm, used to achieve idempotence. Must be a String between 1 and 255 characters long.
metadata dictionary		Arbitrary key/value pairs to accompany the alarm. Must be a hash of String keys and values between 1 and 255 characters long.
notification_plan_id string / required		ID of the notification plan to trigger if this alarm fires. May be acquired by registering the value of a rax_mon_notification_plan task.
region string		Region to create an instance in.
state string	Choices: present ← absent	Ensure that the alarm with this `label` exists or does not exist.
tenant_id string		The tenant ID used for authentication.
tenant_name string		The tenant name used for authentication.
username string		Rackspace username, overrides credentials.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes	Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints. aliases: verify_ssl

Notes

Note

The following environment variables can be used, RAX_USERNAME, RAX_API_KEY, RAX_CREDS_FILE, RAX_CREDENTIALS, RAX_REGION.
RAX_CREDENTIALS and RAX_CREDS_FILE points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating
RAX_USERNAME and RAX_API_KEY obviate the use of a credentials file
RAX_REGION defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)

Examples

- name: Alarm example
  gather_facts: False
  hosts: local
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: Ensure that a specific alarm exists.
    community.general.rax_mon_alarm:
      credentials: ~/.rax_pub
      state: present
      label: uhoh
      entity_id: "{{ the_entity['entity']['id'] }}"
      check_id: "{{ the_check['check']['id'] }}"
      notification_plan_id: "{{ defcon1['notification_plan']['id'] }}"
      criteria: >
        if (rate(metric['average']) > 10) {
          return new AlarmStatus(WARNING);
        }
        return new AlarmStatus(OK);
    register: the_alarm

Authors

Ash Wilson (@smashwilson)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/rax_mon_alarm_module.html

Docs

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