redhat.satellite.setting module – Manage Settings

Note

This module is part of the redhat.satellite collection (version 3.6.0).

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install redhat.satellite. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

New in version 1.0.0: of redhat.satellite

Synopsis

  • Manage Settings

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

name

string / required

Name of the Setting

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.

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:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

value

any

value to set the Setting to

if missing, reset to default

Examples

- name: "Set a Setting"
  redhat.satellite.setting:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://satellite.example.com"
    name: "http_proxy"
    value: "http://localhost:8088"

- name: "Reset a Setting"
  redhat.satellite.setting:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://satellite.example.com"
    name: "http_proxy"

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

settings

list / elements=dictionary

List of settings.

Returned: success

foreman_setting

dictionary

Created / Updated state of the setting (deprecated)

Returned: success

Authors

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG