community.general.nios_nsgroup – Configure InfoBlox DNS Nameserver Groups
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.nios_nsgroup
.
DEPRECATED
- Removed in
-
version 5.0.0
- Why
-
Please install the infoblox.nios_modules collection and use the corresponding module from it.
- Alternative
-
infoblox.nios_modules.nios_nsgroup
Synopsis
- Adds and/or removes nameserver groups form Infoblox NIOS servers. This module manages NIOS
nsgroup
objects using the Infoblox. WAPI interface over REST.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- infoblox_client
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
comment string | Configures a text string comment to be associated with the instance of this object. The provided text string will be configured on the object instance. | |||
extattrs string | Allows for the configuration of Extensible Attributes on the instance of the object. This argument accepts a set of key / value pairs for configuration. | |||
external_primaries list / elements=dictionary | Configures a list of external nameservers (non-members of the grid). This option is required when setting use_external_primaries to true . | |||
address string / required | Configures the IP address of the external nameserver | |||
name string / required | Set a label for the external nameserver | |||
stealth boolean |
| Configure the external nameserver as stealth server (without NS record) in the zones. | ||
tsig_key string | Set a DNS TSIG key for the nameserver to secure zone transfers (AFXRs). | |||
tsig_key_alg string |
| Provides the algorithm used for the tsig_key in use. | ||
tsig_key_name string / required | Sets a label for the tsig_key value | |||
external_secondaries list / elements=dictionary | Allows to provide a list of external secondary nameservers, that are not members of the grid. | |||
address string / required | Configures the IP address of the external nameserver | |||
name string / required | Set a label for the external nameserver | |||
stealth boolean |
| Configure the external nameserver as stealth server (without NS record) in the zones. | ||
tsig_key string | Set a DNS TSIG key for the nameserver to secure zone transfers (AFXRs). | |||
tsig_key_alg string |
| Provides the algorithm used for the tsig_key in use. | ||
tsig_key_name string / required | Sets a label for the tsig_key value | |||
grid_primary list / elements=dictionary | This host is to be used as primary server in this nameserver group. It must be a grid member. This option is required when setting use_external_primaries to false . | |||
enable_preferred_primaries boolean |
| This flag represents whether the preferred_primaries field values of this member are used (see Infoblox WAPI docs). | ||
grid_replicate boolean |
| Use DNS zone transfers if set to True or ID Grid Replication if set to False . | ||
lead boolean |
| This flag controls if the grid lead secondary nameserver performs zone transfers to non lead secondaries. | ||
name string / required | Provide the name of the grid member to identify the host. | |||
preferred_primaries list / elements=dictionary | Provide a list of elements like in external_primaries to set the precedence of preferred primary nameservers. | |||
address string / required | Configures the IP address of the preferred primary nameserver. | |||
name string / required | Set a label for the preferred primary nameserver. | |||
stealth boolean |
| Configure the preferred primary nameserver as stealth server (without NS record) in the zones. | ||
tsig_key string | Set a DNS TSIG key for the nameserver to secure zone transfers (AFXRs). | |||
tsig_key_alg string |
| Provides the algorithm used for the tsig_key in use. | ||
tsig_key_name string / required | Sets a label for the tsig_key value. | |||
stealth boolean |
| Configure the external nameserver as stealth server (without NS record) in the zones. | ||
grid_secondaries list / elements=dictionary | Configures the list of grid member hosts that act as secondary nameservers. This option is required when setting use_external_primaries to true . | |||
enable_preferred_primaries boolean |
| This flag represents whether the preferred_primaries field values of this member are used (see Infoblox WAPI docs). | ||
grid_replicate boolean |
| Use DNS zone transfers if set to True or ID Grid Replication if set to False
| ||
lead boolean |
| This flag controls if the grid lead secondary nameserver performs zone transfers to non lead secondaries. | ||
name string / required | Provide the name of the grid member to identify the host. | |||
preferred_primaries list / elements=dictionary | Provide a list of elements like in external_primaries to set the precedence of preferred primary nameservers. | |||
address string / required | Configures the IP address of the preferred primary nameserver. | |||
name string / required | Set a label for the preferred primary nameserver. | |||
stealth boolean |
| Configure the preferred primary nameserver as stealth server (without NS record) in the zones. | ||
tsig_key string | Set a DNS TSIG key for the nameserver to secure zone transfers (AFXRs). | |||
tsig_key_alg string |
| Provides the algorithm used for the tsig_key in use. | ||
tsig_key_name string / required | Sets a label for the tsig_key value. | |||
stealth boolean |
| Configure the external nameserver as stealth server (without NS record) in the zones. | ||
is_grid_default boolean |
| If set to True this nsgroup will become the default nameserver group for new zones. | ||
name string / required | Specifies the name of the NIOS nameserver group to be managed. | |||
provider dictionary | A dict object containing connection details. | |||
host string | Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote instance of NIOS WAPI over REST Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_HOST environment variable. | |||
http_pool_connections integer | Default: 10 | Number of pools to be used by the infoblox_client.Connector object.This is passed as-is to the underlying requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter class. | ||
http_pool_maxsize integer | Default: 10 | Maximum number of connections per pool to be used by the infoblox_client.Connector object.This is passed as-is to the underlying requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter class. | ||
http_request_timeout integer | Default: 10 | The amount of time before to wait before receiving a response Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT environment variable. | ||
max_results integer | Default: 1000 | Specifies the maximum number of objects to be returned, if set to a negative number the appliance will return an error when the number of returned objects would exceed the setting. Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_MAX_RESULTS environment variable. | ||
max_retries integer | Default: 3 | Configures the number of attempted retries before the connection is declared usable Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_MAX_RETRIES environment variable. | ||
password string | Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote instance of NIOS. Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_PASSWORD environment variable. | |||
silent_ssl_warnings boolean |
| Disable urllib3 SSL warnings in the infoblox_client.Connector object.This is passed as-is to the underlying requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter class. | ||
username string | Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote instance of NIOS. Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_USERNAME environment variable. | |||
validate_certs boolean |
| Boolean value to enable or disable verifying SSL certificates Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_SSL_VERIFY environment variable.aliases: ssl_verify | ||
wapi_version string | Default: "2.1" | Specifies the version of WAPI to use Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_WAP_VERSION environment variable.Until ansible 2.8 the default WAPI was 1.4 | ||
state string |
| Configures the intended state of the instance of the object on the NIOS server. When this value is set to present , the object is configured on the device and when this value is set to absent the value is removed (if necessary) from the device. | ||
use_external_primary boolean |
| This flag controls whether the group is using an external primary nameserver. Note that modification of this field requires passing values for grid_secondaries and external_primaries. |
Notes
Note
- This module must be run locally, which can be achieved by specifying
connection: local
. - Please read the Infoblox Guide for more detailed information on how to use Infoblox with Ansible.
Examples
- name: Create simple infoblox nameserver group community.general.nios_nsgroup: name: my-simple-group comment: "this is a simple nameserver group" grid_primary: - name: infoblox-test.example.com state: present provider: host: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}" username: admin password: admin connection: local - name: Create infoblox nameserver group with external primaries community.general.nios_nsgroup: name: my-example-group use_external_primary: true comment: "this is my example nameserver group" external_primaries: "{{ ext_nameservers }}" grid_secondaries: - name: infoblox-test.example.com lead: True preferred_primaries: "{{ ext_nameservers }}" state: present provider: host: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}" username: admin password: admin connection: local - name: Delete infoblox nameserver group community.general.nios_nsgroup: name: my-simple-group comment: "this is a simple nameserver group" grid_primary: - name: infoblox-test.example.com state: absent provider: host: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}" username: admin password: admin connection: local
Status
- This module will be removed in version 5.0.0. [deprecated]
- For more information see DEPRECATED.
Authors
- Erich Birngruber (@ebirn)
- Sumit Jaiswal (@sjaiswal)
© 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/nios_nsgroup_module.html