theforeman.foreman.sync_plan – Manage Sync Plans

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.1.1).

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

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

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Manage sync plans

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
cron_expression
string
A cron expression as found in crontab files
This must be provided together with interval='custom cron'.
description
string
Description of the sync plan
enabled
boolean / required
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether the sync plan is active
interval
string / required
    Choices:
  • hourly
  • daily
  • weekly
  • custom cron
How often synchronization should run
name
string / required
Name of the sync plan
organization
string / required
Organization that the entity is in
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.
products
list / elements=string
List of products to include in the sync plan
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:
  • present ←
  • present_with_defaults
  • absent
State of the entity
present_with_defaults will ensure the entity exists, but won't update existing ones
sync_date
string / required
Start date and time of the first synchronization
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: "Create or update weekly RHEL sync plan"
  theforeman.foreman.sync_plan:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "Weekly RHEL Sync"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    interval: "weekly"
    enabled: false
    sync_date: "2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC"
    products:
      - 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server'
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
entity
dictionary
success
Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.
 
sync_plans
list / elements=dictionary
success
List of sync plans.


Authors

  • Andrew Kofink (@akofink)

  • Matthis Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX-AG