community.general.rhn_channel – Adds or removes Red Hat software channels

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Ansible/docs/2.10/collections/community/general/rhn channel module


community.general.rhn_channel – Adds or removes Red Hat software channels

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

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


Synopsis

  • Adds or removes Red Hat software channels.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

name

string / required

Name of the software channel.

password

string / required

RHN/Satellite password.


aliases: pwd

state

string

  • present

  • absent

Whether the channel should be present or not, taking action if the state is different from what is stated.

sysname

string / required

Name of the system as it is known in RHN/Satellite.

url

string / required

The full URL to the RHN/Satellite API.

user

string / required

RHN/Satellite login.

validate_certs

boolean

added in 0.2.0 of community.general

  • no
  • yes

If False, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to False when used on self controlled sites using self-signed certificates, and you are absolutely sure that nobody can modify traffic between the module and the site.



Notes

Note

  • This module fetches the system id from RHN.
  • This module doesn’t support check_mode.


Examples

- name: Add a Red Hat software channel
  community.general.rhn_channel:
    name: rhel-x86_64-server-v2vwin-6
    sysname: server01
    url: https://rhn.redhat.com/rpc/api
    user: rhnuser
    password: guessme
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

  • Vincent Van der Kussen (@vincentvdk)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/rhn_channel_module.html