community.general.rax_mon_entity – Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring entity

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_entity.

Synopsis

Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring entity, which represents a device to monitor. Entities associate checks and alarms with a target system and provide a convenient, centralized place to store IP addresses. 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
agent_id string		Rackspace monitoring agent on the target device to which this entity is bound. Necessary to collect `agent.` rax_mon_checks against this entity.
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/
credentials path		File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided. aliases: creds_file
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		Defines a name for this entity. Must be a non-empty string between 1 and 255 characters long.
metadata dictionary		Hash of arbitrary `name`, `value` pairs that are passed to associated rax_mon_alarms. Names and values must all be between 1 and 255 characters long.
named_ip_addresses dictionary		Hash of IP addresses that may be referenced by name by rax_mon_checks added to this entity. Must be a dictionary of with keys that are names between 1 and 64 characters long, and values that are valid IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.
region string		Region to create an instance in.
state string	Choices: present ← absent	Ensure that an entity with this `name` 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: Entity example
  gather_facts: False
  hosts: local
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: Ensure an entity exists
    community.general.rax_mon_entity:
      credentials: ~/.rax_pub
      state: present
      label: my_entity
      named_ip_addresses:
        web_box: 192.0.2.4
        db_box: 192.0.2.5
      meta:
        hurf: durf
    register: the_entity

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_entity_module.html

Docs

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