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)