theforeman.foreman.host_power – Manage Power State of Hosts

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 1.5.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install theforeman.foreman.

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

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

• Manage power state of a host

• This beta version can start and stop an existing foreman host and question the current power state.

Requirements

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

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name string / required		Name (FQDN) of the host aliases: hostname
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	Choices: on start off stop soft reboot cycle reset state ← status	Desired power state
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	Choices: no yes ←	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.

Examples

- name: "Switch a host on"
  theforeman.foreman.host_power:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    hostname: "test-host.domain.test"
    state: on

- name: "Switch a host off"
  theforeman.foreman.host_power:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    hostname: "test-host.domain.test"
    state: off

- name: "Query host power state"
  theforeman.foreman.host_power:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    hostname: "test-host.domain.test"
    state: state
    register: result
- debug:
    msg: "Host power state is {{ result.power_state }}"

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
power_state string	always	current power state of host Sample: off

Authors

• Bernhard Hopfenmueller (@Fobhep) ATIX AG

• Baptiste Agasse (@bagasse)