redhat.satellite.location – Manage Locations

Note

This plugin is part of the redhat.satellite collection (version 3.1.0).

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 redhat.satellite.

To use it in a playbook, specify: redhat.satellite.location.

New in version 1.0.0: of redhat.satellite

Synopsis

• Manage Locations

Requirements

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

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
name string / required	Name of the Location
organizations list / elements=string	List of organizations the location should be assigned to
parameters list / elements=dictionary	Entity domain specific host parameters
name string / required	Name of the parameter
parameter_type string	Type of the parameter Choices: string ← (default) boolean integer real array hash yaml json
value raw / required	Value of the parameter
parent string	Title of a parent Location for nesting
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 SATELLITE_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 SATELLITE_SERVER_URL will be used instead.
state string	State of the entity Choices: present ← (default) absent
username string / required	Username accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable SATELLITE_USERNAME will be used instead.
validate_certs boolean	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 SATELLITE_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead. Choices: no yes ← (default)

Examples

# Create a simple location
- name: "Create CI Location"
  redhat.satellite.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://satellite.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location"
    organizations:
      - "Default Organization"
    state: present

# Create a nested location
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  redhat.satellite.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://satellite.example.com"
    name: "My Nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location"
    state: present

# Create a new nested location with parent included in name
- name: "Create New Nested Location"
  redhat.satellite.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://satellite.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    state: present

# Move a nested location to another parent
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  redhat.satellite.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://satellite.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location/My Nested location"
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key	Description
entity dictionary	Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type. Returned: success
locations list / elements=dictionary	List of locations. Returned: success

Authors

• Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG