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community.general.clc_alert_policy – Create or Delete Alert Policies at CenturyLink Cloud.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection.

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.clc_alert_policy.

Synopsis

  • An Ansible module to Create or Delete Alert Policies at CenturyLink Cloud.

Requirements

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

  • python = 2.7
  • requests >= 2.5.0
  • clc-sdk

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
alert_recipients
string
A list of recipient email ids to notify the alert. This is required for state 'present'
alias
string / required
The alias of your CLC Account
duration
string
The length of time in minutes that the condition must exceed the threshold. This is required for state 'present'
id
string
The alert policy id. This is mutually exclusive with name
metric
string
    Choices:
  • cpu
  • memory
  • disk
The metric on which to measure the condition that will trigger the alert. This is required for state 'present'
name
string
The name of the alert policy. This is mutually exclusive with id
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether to create or delete the policy.
threshold
string
The threshold that will trigger the alert when the metric equals or exceeds it. This is required for state 'present' This number represents a percentage and must be a value between 5.0 - 95.0 that is a multiple of 5.0

Notes

Note

  • To use this module, it is required to set the below environment variables which enables access to the Centurylink Cloud - CLC_V2_API_USERNAME, the account login id for the centurylink cloud - CLC_V2_API_PASSWORD, the account password for the centurylink cloud
  • Alternatively, the module accepts the API token and account alias. The API token can be generated using the CLC account login and password via the HTTP api call @ https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_V2_API_TOKEN, the API token generated from https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_ACCT_ALIAS, the account alias associated with the centurylink cloud
  • Users can set CLC_V2_API_URL to specify an endpoint for pointing to a different CLC environment.

Examples

# Note - You must set the CLC_V2_API_USERNAME And CLC_V2_API_PASSWD Environment variables before running these examples

---
- name: Create Alert Policy Example
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Create an Alert Policy for disk above 80% for 5 minutes
      community.general.clc_alert_policy:
        alias: wfad
        name: 'alert for disk > 80%'
        alert_recipients:
            - [email protected]
            - [email protected]
        metric: 'disk'
        duration: '00:05:00'
        threshold: 80
        state: present
      register: policy

    - name: Debug
      ansible.builtin.debug: var=policy

---
- name: Delete Alert Policy Example
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Delete an Alert Policy
      community.general.clc_alert_policy:
        alias: wfad
        name: 'alert for disk > 80%'
        state: absent
      register: policy

    - name: Debug
      ansible.builtin.debug: var=policy

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
policy
dictionary
success
The alert policy information

Sample:
{'actions': [{'action': 'email', 'settings': {'recipients': ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']}}], 'id': 'ba54ac54a60d4a4f1ed6d48c1ce240a7', 'links': [{'href': '/v2/alertPolicies/alias/ba54ac54a60d4a4fb1d6d48c1ce240a7', 'rel': 'self', 'verbs': ['GET', 'DELETE', 'PUT']}], 'name': 'test_alert', 'triggers': [{'duration': '00:05:00', 'metric': 'disk', 'threshold': 80.0}]}


Authors

  • CLC Runner (@clc-runner)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/clc_alert_policy_module.html