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theforeman.foreman.location – Manage Locations

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.2.0).

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 theforeman.foreman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.location.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Manage Locations

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
string / required
Name of the Location
organizations
list / elements=string
List of organizations the location should be assigned to
parameters
list / elements=dictionary
Entity domain specific host parameters
name
string / required
Name of the parameter
parameter_type
string
    Choices:
  • string ←
  • boolean
  • integer
  • real
  • array
  • hash
  • yaml
  • json
Type of the parameter
value
raw / required
Value of the parameter
parent
string
Title of a parent Location for nesting
password
string / required
Password of the user accessing the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.
server_url
string / required
URL of the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_SERVER_URL will be used instead.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
State of the entity
username
string / required
Username accessing the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USERNAME will be used instead.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Examples

# Create a simple location
- name: "Create CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location"
    organizations:
      - "Default Organization"
    state: present

# Create a nested location
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location"
    state: present

# Create a new nested location with parent included in name
- name: "Create New Nested Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    state: present

# Move a nested location to another parent
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location/My Nested location"
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
entity
dictionary
success
Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.

locations
list / elements=dictionary
success
List of locations.



Authors

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/theforeman/foreman/location_module.html