theforeman.foreman.hardware_model module – Manage Hardware Models

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 4.2.0).

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.hardware_model.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Manage hardware models

Aliases: foreman_model

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

hardware_model

string

The class of CPU supplied in this machine.

This is primarily used by Sparc Solaris builds and can be left blank for other architectures.

info

string

General description of the hardware model

name

string / required

Name of the hardware model

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.

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)

  • "absent"

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)

vendor_class

string

The class of the machine as reported by the OpenBoot PROM.

This is primarily used by Solaris SPARC builds and can be left blank for other architectures.

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: "Create ACME Laptop model"
  theforeman.foreman.hardware_model:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "acme laptop"
    info: "this is the acme laptop"
    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

hardware_models

list / elements=dictionary

List of hardware models.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Evgeni Golov (@evgeni)