ovirt_event – Create or delete an event in oVirt/RHV

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ovirt_event – Create or delete an event in oVirt/RHV

New in version 2.8.


Synopsis

  • This module can be used to create or delete an event in oVirt/RHV.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.3.0

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

auth

dictionary / required

Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:

ca_file

string

A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates.

The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates.

If ca_file parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used.

Default value is set by OVIRT_CAFILE environment variable.

headers

dictionary

Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.

hostname

string

A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like `server.example.com`.

Default value is set by OVIRT_HOSTNAME environment variable.

Either url or hostname is required.

insecure

boolean

  • no
  • yes

A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked.

kerberos

boolean

  • no
  • yes

A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication.

password

string / required

The password of the user.

Default value is set by OVIRT_PASSWORD environment variable.

token

string

Token to be used instead of login with username/password.

Default value is set by OVIRT_TOKEN environment variable.

url

string

A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`.

Default value is set by OVIRT_URL environment variable.

Either url or hostname is required.

username

string / required

The name of the user, something like admin@internal.

Default value is set by OVIRT_USERNAME environment variable.

cluster

string

The id of the cluster associated with this event.

custom_id

integer

Custom ID for the event. This ID must be unique for each event.

Required when state is present.

data_center

string

The id of the data center associated with this event.

description

string

Message for the event.

Required when state is present.

fetch_nested

boolean

added in 2.3

  • no
  • yes

If True the module will fetch additional data from the API.

It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying nested_attributes.

host

string

The id of the host associated with this event.

id

string

The event ID in the oVirt/RHV audit_log table. This ID is not the same as custom_id and is only used when state is absent.

Required when state is absent.

nested_attributes

list

added in 2.3

Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API.

This parameter apply only when fetch_nested is true.

origin

string

Originator of the event.

Required when state is present.

poll_interval

integer

Default:

3

Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent.

severity

string

  • error
  • normal

  • warning

Severity of the event.

Required when state is present.

state

string

  • present

  • absent

Should the event be present/absent.

The wait option must be set to false when state is absent.

storage_domain

string

The id of the storage domain associated with this event.

template

string

The id of the template associated with this event.

timeout

integer

Default:

180

The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the instance to get into desired state.

user

string

The id of the user associated with this event.

vm

string

The id of the VM associated with this event.

wait

boolean

  • no
  • yes

yes if the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state.



Notes

Note

  • In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.3.0


Examples

# Examples don't contain the auth parameter for simplicity,
# look at the ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication.

- name: Create an event
  ovirt_event:
    state: present
    description: "The file system /home on host xyz is almost full!"
    origin: "mymonitor"
    custom_id: 123456789
    severity: warning

- name: Create an event and link it to a specific object
  ovirt_event:
    state: present
    description: "The file system /home is almost full!"
    origin: "mymonitor"
    custom_id: 123456789
    severity: warning
    vm: "c79db183-46ef-44d1-95f9-1a368c516c19"

- name: Remove an event
  ovirt_event:
    state: absent
    id: 123456789
    wait: false

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description

event

dictionary

On success.

Dictionary of all the Event attributes. All event attributes can be found at the following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/event


id

string

On success.

ID of the event that was created.





Status

Authors

  • Chris Keller (@nasx)

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