community.general.vertica_configuration – Updates Vertica configuration parameters.

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.vertica_configuration.

Synopsis

  • Updates Vertica configuration parameters.

Requirements

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

  • unixODBC
  • pyodbc

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
cluster
string
Default:
"localhost"
Name of the Vertica cluster.
db
string
Name of the Vertica database.
login_password
string
The password used to authenticate with.
login_user
string
Default:
"dbadmin"
The username used to authenticate with.
parameter
string / required
Name of the parameter to update.

aliases: name
port
string
Default:
"5433"
Vertica cluster port to connect to.
value
string
Value of the parameter to be set.

Notes

Note

  • The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or sudo’ing to the dbadmin account on the host.
  • This module uses pyodbc, a Python ODBC database adapter. You must ensure that unixODBC and pyodbc is installed on the host and properly configured.
  • Configuring unixODBC for Vertica requires Driver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.so to be added to the Vertica section of either /etc/odbcinst.ini or $HOME/.odbcinst.ini and both ErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64 and DriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16 to be added to the Driver section of either /etc/vertica.ini or $HOME/.vertica.ini.

Examples

- name: Updating load_balance_policy
  community.general.vertica_configuration: name=failovertostandbyafter value='8 hours'

Authors

  • Dariusz Owczarek (@dareko)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/vertica_configuration_module.html