set-oci-vm-owner

Copies owner custom attribute in vCenter to owner tag in NetApp OnCommand Insight

Requirements

You need a fully operational OCI server and vCenter server, as well as credentials for each.

Tested with Ansible 2.7 and 2.8.

Role Variables

vcenter_hostname or VMWARE_HOST environment : Host name or IP of vCenter server

vcenter_username or VMWARE_USER environment : Username to use when connecting to vCenter Server. Can be a read-only user

vcenter_password or VMWARE_PASSWORD environment : Password to use when connecting to vCenter Server

vcenter_datacenter : Name of Datacenter as defined in vCenter Server top level object.

vcenter_custom_attribute : Name of the attribute in vCenter that will be set in OCI annotation

oci_host : Host name or IP address of OCI server

oci_username : Username to use when connecting to OCI server

oci_password : Password to use when connecting to OCI server. To get a lit of annotation, you can use the following URL in your web browser : https://ociserver/rest/v1/assets/annotations

oci_annotation_id : ID for the annotation to use when updating VirtualMachine object in OCI.

oci_query_id :ID for the query that returns all the VirtualMachine objects that needs to be updated with owner annotation. To get a list of queries, you can use tge following URL in your web browser : https://ociserver/rest/v1/queries

Example Playbook

Here is an example that shows how to pass OCI credentials.

vCenter credentials usually comes from the inventory file.

# Content of inventory.yaml
all:
  children:
    vcenters:
      hosts:
        vcenter:
          ansible_connection: local
          vcenter_datacenter: Datacenter
          vcenter_hostname: myVcenterServer
          vcenter_username: [email protected]
          vcenter_password: secretPassword

# Content of set-oci-vm-owner.yaml
- hosts: vcenters
  vars:
    oci_username: admin
    oci_password: secretPassword
    oci_host: ociServer
    oci_query_id: 67
    oci_annotation_id: 5012
    vcenter_custom_attribute: owner
  module_defaults:
    vmware_vm_facts:
      validate_certs: no
    vmware_guest_facts:
      validate_certs: no
    uri:
      validate_certs: no
  roles:
    - ybizeul.set_oci_vm_owner

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml set-oci-vm-owner.yaml 

Author Information

yann@tynsoe.org