ios_ntp – Manages core NTP configuration

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ios_ntp – Manages core NTP configuration

New in version 2.8.


Synopsis

  • Manages core NTP configuration.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

acl

-

ACL for peer/server access restricition.

auth

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Enable NTP authentication. Data type boolean.

auth_key

-

md5 NTP authentication key of tye 7.

auth_pass

string

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli and become: yes with become_pass.

For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide.

Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead.

authorize

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli and become: yes.

For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide.

Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead.

key_id

-

auth_key id. Data type string

logging

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Enable NTP logs. Data type boolean.

provider

dictionary

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.

For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide.

A dict object containing connection details.

auth_pass

string

Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead.

authorize

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead.

host

string / required

Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.

password

string

Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.

port

integer

Default:

22

Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.

ssh_keyfile

path

Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.

timeout

integer

Default:

10

Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.

username

string

Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.

server

-

Network address of NTP server.

source_int

-

Source interface for NTP packets.

state

-

  • present

  • absent

Manage the state of the resource.



Notes

Note


Examples

# Set new NTP server and source interface
- ios_ntp:
    server: 10.0.255.10
    source_int: Loopback0
    logging: false
    state: present

# Remove NTP ACL and logging
- ios_ntp:
    acl: NTP_ACL
    logging: true
    state: absent

# Set NTP authentication
- ios_ntp:
    key_id: 10
    auth_key: 15435A030726242723273C21181319000A
    auth: true
    state: present

# Set new NTP configuration
- ios_ntp:
    server: 10.0.255.10
    source_int: Loopback0
    acl: NTP_ACL
    logging: true
    key_id: 10
    auth_key: 15435A030726242723273C21181319000A
    auth: true
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description

commands

list

always

command sent to the device


Sample:

['no ntp server 10.0.255.10', 'no ntp source Loopback0']




Status

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

  • Federico Olivieri (@Federico87)

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