community.vmware.vsan_health_silent_checks module – Silence vSAN health checks

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 6.2.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. 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 community.vmware. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vsan_health_silent_checks.

New in community.vmware 3.6.0

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples

Synopsis

Take a list of vSAN health checks and silence them
Re-enable alerts for previously silenced health checks

Requirements

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

vSAN Management SDK, which needs to be downloaded from VMware and installed manually.

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
checks list / elements=string	The checks to silence.
cluster_name string / required	Name of the vSAN cluster.
hostname string	The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `VMWARE_HOST` will be used instead.
password aliases: pass, pwd string	The password of the vSphere vCenter server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `VMWARE_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
port integer	The port number of the vSphere vCenter server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `VMWARE_PORT` will be used instead. Default: `443`
proxy_host string	The address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. The format is a hostname or a IP. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `VMWARE_PROXY_HOST` will be used instead.
proxy_port integer	The port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `VMWARE_PROXY_PORT` will be used instead.
state string	The state of the health checks. If set to `present`, all given health checks will be silenced. If set to `absent`, all given health checks will be removed from the list of silent checks. Choices: `"present"` ← (default) `"absent"`
username aliases: admin, user string	The username of the vSphere vCenter server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `VMWARE_USER` will be used instead.
validate_certs boolean	Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to `false` when certificates are not trusted. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS` will be used instead. Choices: `false` `true` ← (default)

Notes

Note

All modules require API write access and hence are not supported on a free ESXi license.
All variables and VMware object names are case sensitive.
Modules may rely on the ‘requests’ python library, which does not use the system certificate store by default. You can specify the certificate store by setting the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable. Note having this variable set may cause a ‘false’ value for the ‘validate_certs’ option to be ignored in some cases. Example: ‘export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/your/ca_bundle.pem’

Examples

- name: Disable the vSAN Support Insight health check
  community.vmware.vsan_health_silent_checks:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    checks: vsanenablesupportinsight
    cluster_name: 'vSAN01'
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Re-enable health check alerts for release catalog and HCL DB
  community.vmware.vsan_health_silent_checks:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    checks:
      - releasecataloguptodate
      - autohclupdate
    state: absent
    cluster_name: 'vSAN01'
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

Philipp Fruck (@p-fruck)

Collection links

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vsan_health_silent_checks_module.html