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community.general.rax_mon_notification_plan – Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring notification plan.
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_notification_plan.
Synopsis
- Create or delete a Rackspace Cloud Monitoring notification plan by associating existing rax_mon_notifications with severity levels. 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/
         | 
     |
| credentials
        
        path
         | 
      
        
        File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided.
        
       aliases: creds_file  | 
     |
| critical_state
        
        list / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        Notification list to use when the alarm state is CRITICAL. Must be an array of valid rax_mon_notification ids.
         | 
     |
| 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 friendly name for this notification plan. String between 1 and 255 characters long.
         | 
     |
| ok_state
        
        list / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        Notification list to use when the alarm state is OK. Must be an array of valid rax_mon_notification ids.
         | 
     |
| region
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        Region to create an instance in.
         | 
     |
| state
        
        string
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Ensure that the notification plan 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
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.
        
       aliases: verify_ssl  | 
     
| warning_state
        
        list / elements=string
         | 
      
        
        Notification list to use when the alarm state is WARNING. Must be an array of valid rax_mon_notification ids.
         | 
     
Notes
Note
- The following environment variables can be used, 
RAX_USERNAME,RAX_API_KEY,RAX_CREDS_FILE,RAX_CREDENTIALS,RAX_REGION. RAX_CREDENTIALSandRAX_CREDS_FILEpoints to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticatingRAX_USERNAMEandRAX_API_KEYobviate the use of a credentials fileRAX_REGIONdefines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)
Examples
- name: Example notification plan
  gather_facts: False
  hosts: local
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: Establish who gets called when.
    community.general.rax_mon_notification_plan:
      credentials: ~/.rax_pub
      state: present
      label: defcon1
      critical_state:
      - "{{ everyone['notification']['id'] }}"
      warning_state:
      - "{{ opsfloor['notification']['id'] }}"
    register: defcon1
  Authors
- Ash Wilson (@smashwilson)
 
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/rax_mon_notification_plan_module.html