pagerduty – Create PagerDuty maintenance windows

Synopsis

  • This module will let you create PagerDuty maintenance windows

Requirements

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

  • PagerDuty API access

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
desc
-
Default:
"Created by Ansible"
Short description of maintenance window.
hours
-
Default:
1
Length of maintenance window in hours.
minutes
-
Default:
0
Maintenance window in minutes (this is added to the hours).
name
-
PagerDuty unique subdomain. Obsolete. It is not used with PagerDuty REST v2 API.
requester_id
-
ID of user making the request. Only needed when creating a maintenance_window.
service
-
A comma separated list of PagerDuty service IDs.

aliases: services
state
- / required
    Choices:
  • running
  • started
  • ongoing
  • absent
Create a maintenance window or get a list of ongoing windows.
token
- / required
A pagerduty token, generated on the pagerduty site. It is used for authorization.
user
-
PagerDuty user ID. Obsolete. Please, use token for authorization.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
window_id
-
added in 2.7
ID of maintenance window. Only needed when absent a maintenance_window.

Examples

# List ongoing maintenance windows using a token
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    state: ongoing

# Create a 1 hour maintenance window for service FOO123
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: [email protected]
    token: yourtoken
    state: running
    service: FOO123

# Create a 5 minute maintenance window for service FOO123
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    hours: 0
    minutes: 5
    state: running
    service: FOO123


# Create a 4 hour maintenance window for service FOO123 with the description "deployment".
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: [email protected]
    state: running
    service: FOO123
    hours: 4
    desc: deployment
  register: pd_window

# Delete the previous maintenance window
- pagerduty:
    name: companyabc
    user: [email protected]
    state: absent
    window_id: '{{ pd_window.result.maintenance_window.id }}'

# Delete a maintenance window from a separate playbook than its creation, and if it is the only existing maintenance window.
- pagerduty:
    requester_id: XXXXXXX
    token: yourtoken
    state: ongoing
  register: pd_window

- pagerduty:
    requester_id: XXXXXXX
    token: yourtoken
    state: absent
    window_id: "{{ pd_window.result.maintenance_windows[0].id }}"

Status

Authors

  • Andrew Newdigate (@suprememoocow)
  • Dylan Silva (@thaumos)
  • Justin Johns (!UNKNOWN)
  • Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/pagerduty_module.html