theforeman.foreman.host_power – Manage Power State of Hosts

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.2.0).

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 theforeman.foreman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.host_power.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Manage power state of a host
  • This beta version can start and stop an existing foreman host and question the current power state.

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
string / required
Name (FQDN) of the host

aliases: hostname
password
string / required
Password of the user accessing the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.
server_url
string / required
URL of the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_SERVER_URL will be used instead.
state
string
    Choices:
  • on
  • start
  • off
  • stop
  • soft
  • reboot
  • cycle
  • reset
  • state ←
  • status
Desired power state
username
string / required
Username accessing the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USERNAME will be used instead.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Examples

- name: "Switch a host on"
  theforeman.foreman.host_power:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    hostname: "test-host.domain.test"
    state: on

- name: "Switch a host off"
  theforeman.foreman.host_power:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    hostname: "test-host.domain.test"
    state: off

- name: "Query host power state"
  theforeman.foreman.host_power:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    hostname: "test-host.domain.test"
    state: state
    register: result
- debug:
    msg: "Host power state is {{ result.power_state }}"

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
power_state
string
always
current power state of host

Sample:
off


Authors

  • Bernhard Hopfenmueller (@Fobhep) ATIX AG
  • Baptiste Agasse (@bagasse)

© 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/theforeman/foreman/host_power_module.html