aci_aaa_user_certificate – Manage AAA user certificates (aaa:UserCert)

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aci_aaa_user_certificate – Manage AAA user certificates (aaa:UserCert)

New in version 2.5.


Synopsis

  • Manage AAA user certificates on Cisco ACI fabrics.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

aaa_user

string / required

The name of the user to add a certificate to.

aaa_user_type

string

  • appuser
  • user

Whether this is a normal user or an appuser.

certificate

string

The PEM format public key extracted from the X.509 certificate.


aliases: cert_data, certificate_data

certificate_name

string

The name of the user certificate entry in ACI.


aliases: cert_name

host

string / required

IP Address or hostname of APIC resolvable by Ansible control host.


aliases: hostname

output_level

string

  • debug
  • info
  • normal

Influence the output of this ACI module.

normal means the standard output, incl. current dict

info adds informational output, incl. previous, proposed and sent dicts

debug adds debugging output, incl. filter_string, method, response, status and url information

password

string / required

The password to use for authentication.

This option is mutual exclusive with private_key. If private_key is provided too, it will be used instead.

port

integer

Port number to be used for REST connection.

The default value depends on parameter use_ssl.

private_key

string / required

Either a PEM-formatted private key file or the private key content used for signature-based authentication.

This value also influences the default certificate_name that is used.

This option is mutual exclusive with password. If password is provided too, it will be ignored.


aliases: cert_key

state

string

  • absent
  • present

  • query

Use present or absent for adding or removing.

Use query for listing an object or multiple objects.

timeout

integer

Default:

30

The socket level timeout in seconds.

use_proxy

boolean

  • no
  • yes

If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.

use_ssl

boolean

  • no
  • yes

If no, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.

username

string

Default:

"admin"

The username to use for authentication.


aliases: user

validate_certs

boolean

  • no
  • yes

If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to no when used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.



Notes

Note

  • The aaa_user must exist before using this module in your playbook. The aci_aaa_user module can be used for this.


See Also

See also

aci_aaa_user – Manage AAA users (aaa:User)
The official documentation on the aci_aaa_user module.
APIC Management Information Model reference
More information about the internal APIC class aaa:UserCert.
Cisco ACI Guide
Detailed information on how to manage your ACI infrastructure using Ansible.
Developing Cisco ACI modules
Detailed guide on how to write your own Cisco ACI modules to contribute.


Examples

- name: Add a certificate to user
  aci_aaa_user_certificate:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aaa_user: admin
    certificate_name: admin
    certificate_data: '{{ lookup("file", "pki/admin.crt") }}'
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove a certificate of a user
  aci_aaa_user_certificate:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aaa_user: admin
    certificate_name: admin
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Query a certificate of a user
  aci_aaa_user_certificate:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aaa_user: admin
    certificate_name: admin
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

- name: Query all certificates of a user
  aci_aaa_user_certificate:
    host: apic
    username: admin
    password: SomeSecretPassword
    aaa_user: admin
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: query_result

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description

current

list

success

The existing configuration from the APIC after the module has finished


Sample:

[{'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production environment', 'dn': 'uni/tn-production', 'name': 'production', 'nameAlias': , 'ownerKey': , 'ownerTag': }}}]

error

dictionary

failure

The error information as returned from the APIC


Sample:

{'code': '122', 'text': 'unknown managed object class foo'}

filter_string

string

failure or debug

The filter string used for the request


Sample:

?rsp-prop-include=config-only

method

string

failure or debug

The HTTP method used for the request to the APIC


Sample:

POST

previous

list

info

The original configuration from the APIC before the module has started


Sample:

[{'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production', 'dn': 'uni/tn-production', 'name': 'production', 'nameAlias': , 'ownerKey': , 'ownerTag': }}}]

proposed

dictionary

info

The assembled configuration from the user-provided parameters


Sample:

{'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production environment', 'name': 'production'}}}

raw

string

parse error

The raw output returned by the APIC REST API (xml or json)


Sample:


response

string

failure or debug

The HTTP response from the APIC


Sample:

OK (30 bytes)

sent

list

info

The actual/minimal configuration pushed to the APIC


Sample:

{'fvTenant': {'attributes': {'descr': 'Production environment'}}}

status

integer

failure or debug

The HTTP status from the APIC


Sample:

200

url

string

failure or debug

The HTTP url used for the request to the APIC


Sample:




Status

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

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