theforeman.foreman.smart_class_parameter module – Manage Smart Class Parameters

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 5.2.0-dev).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Update Smart Class Parameters.

  • Smart Class Parameters are created/deleted for Puppet classes during import and cannot be created or deleted otherwise.

Aliases: foreman_smart_class_parameter

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

avoid_duplicates

boolean

Remove duplicate values (only array type)

Choices:

  • false

  • true

default_value

any

Value to use by default.

description

string

Description of the Smart Class Parameter

hidden_value

boolean

When enabled the parameter is hidden in the UI.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

merge_default

boolean

Include default value when merging all matching values.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

merge_overrides

boolean

Merge all matching values (only array/hash type).

Choices:

  • false

  • true

omit

boolean

Don’t send this parameter in classification output.

Puppet will use the value defined in the Puppet manifest for this parameter.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

override

boolean

Whether the smart class parameter value is managed by Foreman

Choices:

  • false

  • true

override_value_order

list / elements=string

The order in which values are resolved.

override_values

list / elements=dictionary

Value overrides

match

string / required

Override match

omit

boolean

Don’t send this parameter in classification output, replaces use_puppet_default.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

value

any

Override value, required if omit is false

parameter

aliases: smart_class_parameter

string / required

Name of the parameter

parameter_type

string

Types of variable values. If none, set the parameter type to empty value.

Choices:

  • "string"

  • "boolean"

  • "integer"

  • "real"

  • "array"

  • "hash"

  • "yaml"

  • "json"

  • "none"

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.

puppetclass_name

aliases: puppetclass

string / required

Name of the puppetclass that own the parameter

required

boolean

If true, will raise an error if there is no default value and no matcher provide a value.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

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

State of the entity.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "present_with_defaults"

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

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.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

validator_rule

string

Used to enforce certain values for the parameter values.

validator_type

string

Types of validation values.

Choices:

  • "regexp"

  • "list"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying the entity

diff_mode

Support: full

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode

Examples

- name: "Update prometheus::server alertmanagers_config param default value"
  theforeman.foreman.smart_class_parameter:
    puppetclass_name: "prometheus::server"
    parameter: alertmanagers_config
    override: true
    required: true
    default_value: /etc/prometheus/alert.yml
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: present

- name: "Update prometheus::server alertmanagers_config param default value"
  theforeman.foreman.smart_class_parameter:
    puppetclass_name: "prometheus::server"
    parameter: alertmanagers_config
    override: true
    override_value_order:
      - fqdn
      - hostgroup
      - domain
    required: true
    default_value: /etc/prometheus/alert.yml
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    override_values:
      - match: domain=example.com
        value: foo
      - match: domain=foo.example.com
        omit: true
    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

smart_class_parameters

list / elements=dictionary

List of smart class parameters.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Baptiste Agasse (@bagasse)