ovirt_vms_facts - Retrieve facts about one or more oVirt/RHV virtual machines

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Retrieve facts about one or more oVirt/RHV virtual machines.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.2.4

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
all_content
If true all the attributes of the virtual machines should be included in the response.
auth
required
Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:
username[required] - The name of the user, something like admin@internal. Default value is set by OVIRT_USERNAME environment variable.
password[required] - The password of the user. Default value is set by OVIRT_PASSWORD environment variable.
url[required] - A string containing the base URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`. Default value is set by OVIRT_URL environment variable.
token - Token to be used instead of login with username/password. Default value is set by OVIRT_TOKEN environment variable.
insecure - A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked.
ca_file - A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates. The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates. If `ca_file` parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used. Default value is set by OVIRT_CAFILE environment variable.
kerberos - A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication.
headers - Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.
case_sensitive
If true performed search will take case into account.
fetch_nested
(added in 2.3)
If True the module will fetch additional data from the API.
It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying nested_attributes.
max
The maximum number of results to return.
nested_attributes
(added in 2.3)
Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API.
This parameter apply only when fetch_nested is true.
pattern
Search term which is accepted by oVirt/RHV search backend.
For example to search VM X from cluster Y use following pattern: name=X and cluster=Y

Notes

Note

  • This module creates a new top-level ovirt_vms fact, which contains a list of virtual machines.
  • In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.0.0

Examples

# Examples don't contain auth parameter for simplicity,
# look at ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication:

# Gather facts about all VMs which names start with C(centos) and
# belong to cluster C(west):
- ovirt_vms_facts:
    pattern: name=centos* and cluster=west
- debug:
    var: ovirt_vms

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
ovirt_vms
list
 On success.
List of dictionaries describing the VMs. VM attribues are mapped to dictionary keys, all VMs attributes can be found at following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/vm.


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

  • Ondra Machacek (@machacekondra)

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