ipa_host – Manage FreeIPA host
ipa_host – Manage FreeIPA host
New in version 2.3.
Synopsis
- Add, modify and delete an IPA host using IPA API
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
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description - |
A description of this host. | |
force boolean |
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Force host name even if not in DNS. |
fqdn - / required |
Full qualified domain name. Can not be changed as it is the unique identifier.
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ip_address - |
Add the host to DNS with this IP address. | |
ipa_host string |
Default: "ipa.example.com" |
IP or hostname of IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable The relevant entry needed in FreeIPA is the 'ipa-ca' entry. If neither the DNS entry, nor the environment Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. |
ipa_pass string / required |
Password of administrative user. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Note that if the 'urllib_gssapi' library is available, it is possible to use GSSAPI to authenticate to FreeIPA. If the environment variable If the environment variable If GSSAPI is not available, the usage of 'ipa_pass' is required. Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. | |
ipa_port integer |
Default: 443 |
Port of FreeIPA / IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. |
ipa_prot string |
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Protocol used by IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. |
ipa_timeout integer added in 2.7 |
Default: 10 |
Specifies idle timeout (in seconds) for the connection. For bulk operations, you may want to increase this in order to avoid timeout from IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable |
ipa_user string |
Default: "admin" |
Administrative account used on IPA server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable If both the environment variable Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5. |
mac_address - |
List of Hardware MAC address(es) off this host. If option is omitted MAC addresses will not be checked or changed. If an empty list is passed all assigned MAC addresses will be removed. MAC addresses that are already assigned but not passed will be removed.
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ns_hardware_platform - |
Host hardware platform (e.g. "Lenovo T61")
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ns_host_location - |
Host location (e.g. "Lab 2")
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ns_os_version - |
Host operating system and version (e.g. "Fedora 9")
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random_password boolean added in 2.5 |
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Generate a random password to be used in bulk enrollment |
state - |
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State to ensure |
update_dns boolean added in 2.5 |
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If set This option has no effect for states other than "absent". |
user_certificate - |
List of Base-64 encoded server certificates. If option is omitted certificates will not be checked or changed. If an empty list is passed all assigned certificates will be removed. Certificates already assigned but not passed will be removed.
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validate_certs boolean |
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This only applies if If set to This should only set to |
Examples
# Ensure host is present
- ipa_host:
name: host01.example.com
description: Example host
ip_address: 192.168.0.123
ns_host_location: Lab
ns_os_version: CentOS 7
ns_hardware_platform: Lenovo T61
mac_address:
- "08:00:27:E3:B1:2D"
- "52:54:00:BD:97:1E"
state: present
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
# Generate a random password for bulk enrolment
- ipa_host:
name: host01.example.com
description: Example host
ip_address: 192.168.0.123
state: present
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
validate_certs: False
random_password: True
# Ensure host is disabled
- ipa_host:
name: host01.example.com
state: disabled
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
# Ensure that all user certificates are removed
- ipa_host:
name: host01.example.com
user_certificate: []
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
# Ensure host is absent
- ipa_host:
name: host01.example.com
state: absent
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
# Ensure host and its DNS record is absent
- ipa_host:
name: host01.example.com
state: absent
ipa_host: ipa.example.com
ipa_user: admin
ipa_pass: topsecret
update_dns: True
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
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host dictionary |
always |
Host as returned by IPA API.
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host_diff list |
if check mode and a difference is found |
List of options that differ and would be changed
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Status
- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]
Authors
- Thomas Krahn (@Nosmoht)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/ipa_host_module.html