cisco.intersight.intersight_rest_api – REST API configuration for Cisco Intersight

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.intersight collection (version 1.0.17).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.intersight.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.intersight.intersight_rest_api.

New in version 2.8: of cisco.intersight

Synopsis

  • Direct REST API configuration for Cisco Intersight.
  • All REST API resources and properties must be specified.
  • For more information see Cisco Intersight.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_body
dictionary
The paylod for API requests used to modify resources.
api_key_id
string / required
Public API Key ID associated with the private key.
If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_KEY_ID environment variable is used.
api_private_key
string / required
Filename (absolute path) or string of PEM formatted private key data to be used for Intersight API authentication.
If a string is used, Ansible vault should be used to encrypt string data.
Ex. ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-id tme@/Users/dsoper/Documents/vault_password_file '-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----
<your private key data>
-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----'
If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable is used.
api_uri
string
Default:
"https://intersight.com/api/v1"
URI used to access the Intersight API.
If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_URI environment variable is used.
query_params
dictionary
Query parameters for the Intersight API query languange.
resource_path
string / required
Resource URI being configured related to api_uri.
return_list
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
If yes, will return a list of API results in the api_response.
By default only the 1st element of the API Results list is returned.
Can only be used with GET operations.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
If present, will verify the resource is present and will create if needed.
If absent, will verify the resource is absent and will delete if needed.
update_method
string
    Choices:
  • patch ←
  • post
The HTTP method used for update operations.
Some Intersight resources require POST operations for modifications.
use_proxy
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Boolean control for verifying the api_uri TLS certificate

Examples

- name: Configure Boot Policy
  intersight_rest_api:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    api_key_uri: "{{ api_key_uri }}"
    validate_certs: "{{ validate_certs }}"
    resource_path: /boot/PrecisionPolicies
    query_params:
      $filter: "Name eq 'vmedia-localdisk'"
    api_body: {
      "Name": "vmedia-localdisk",
      "ConfiguredBootMode": "Legacy",
      "BootDevices": [
        {
          "ObjectType": "boot.VirtualMedia",
          "Enabled": true,
          "Name": "remote-vmedia",
          "Subtype": "cimc-mapped-dvd"
        },
        {
          "ObjectType": "boot.LocalDisk",
          "Enabled": true,
          "Name": "localdisk",
          "Slot": "MRAID",
          "Bootloader": null
        }
      ],
    }
    state: present

- name: Delete Boot Policy
  intersight_rest_api:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    api_key_uri: "{{ api_key_uri }}"
    validate_certs: "{{ validate_certs }}"
    resource_path: /boot/PrecisionPolicies
    query_params:
      $filter: "Name eq 'vmedia-localdisk'"
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
api_repsonse
dictionary
always
The API response output returned by the specified resource.

Sample:
{'api_response': {'BootDevices': [{'Enabled': True, 'Name': 'remote-vmedia', 'ObjectType': 'boot.VirtualMedia', 'Subtype': 'cimc-mapped-dvd'}, {'Bootloader': None, 'Enabled': True, 'Name': 'boot-lun', 'ObjectType': 'boot.LocalDisk', 'Slot': 'MRAID'}], 'ConfiguredBootMode': 'Legacy', 'Name': 'vmedia-localdisk', 'ObjectType': 'boot.PrecisionPolicy'}}


Authors

  • David Soper (@dsoper2)
  • CiscoUcs (@CiscoUcs)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/cisco/intersight/intersight_rest_api_module.html