community.general.manageiq_alerts – Configuration of alerts in ManageIQ

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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 community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.manageiq_alerts.

Synopsis

  • The manageiq_alerts module supports adding, updating and deleting alerts in ManageIQ.

Requirements

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

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
string
The unique alert description in ManageIQ.
Required when state is "absent" or "present".
enabled
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Enable or disable the alert. Required if state is "present".
expression
dictionary
The alert expression for ManageIQ.
Can either be in the "Miq Expression" format or the "Hash Expression format".
Required if state is "present".
expression_type
string
    Choices:
  • hash ←
  • miq
Expression type.
manageiq_connection
dictionary
ManageIQ connection configuration information.
ca_cert
string
The path to a CA bundle file or directory with certificates. defaults to None.

aliases: ca_bundle_path
password
string
ManageIQ password. MIQ_PASSWORD env var if set. otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
token
string
ManageIQ token. MIQ_TOKEN env var if set. otherwise, required if no username or password is passed in.
url
string
ManageIQ environment url. MIQ_URL env var if set. otherwise, it is required to pass it.
username
string
ManageIQ username. MIQ_USERNAME env var if set. otherwise, required if no token is passed in.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Whether SSL certificates should be verified for HTTPS requests. defaults to True.

aliases: verify_ssl
options
dictionary
Additional alert options, such as notification type and frequency
resource_type
string
    Choices:
  • Vm
  • ContainerNode
  • MiqServer
  • Host
  • Storage
  • EmsCluster
  • ExtManagementSystem
  • MiddlewareServer
The entity type for the alert in ManageIQ. Required when state is "present".
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present ←
absent - alert should not exist,
present - alert should exist,

Examples

- name: Add an alert with a "hash expression" to ManageIQ
  community.general.manageiq_alerts:
    state: present
    description: Test Alert 01
    options:
      notifications:
        email:
          to: ["[email protected]"]
          from: "[email protected]"
    resource_type: ContainerNode
    expression:
        eval_method: hostd_log_threshold
        mode: internal
        options: {}
    enabled: true
    manageiq_connection:
      url: 'http://127.0.0.1:3000'
      username: 'admin'
      password: 'smartvm'
      validate_certs: False

- name: Add an alert with a "miq expression" to ManageIQ
  community.general.manageiq_alerts:
    state: present
    description: Test Alert 02
    options:
      notifications:
        email:
          to: ["[email protected]"]
          from: "[email protected]"
    resource_type: Vm
    expression_type: miq
    expression:
        and:
          - CONTAINS:
              tag: Vm.managed-environment
              value: prod
          - not:
            CONTAINS:
              tag: Vm.host.managed-environment
              value: prod
    enabled: true
    manageiq_connection:
      url: 'http://127.0.0.1:3000'
      username: 'admin'
      password: 'smartvm'
      validate_certs: False

- name: Delete an alert from ManageIQ
  community.general.manageiq_alerts:
    state: absent
    description: Test Alert 01
    manageiq_connection:
      url: 'http://127.0.0.1:3000'
      username: 'admin'
      password: 'smartvm'
      validate_certs: False

Authors

© 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/community/general/manageiq_alerts_module.html