cisco.intersight.intersight_server_profile_template module – Manage Server Profile Templates in Cisco Intersight

Note

This module is part of the cisco.intersight collection (version 2.18.0).

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 cisco.intersight.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.intersight.intersight_server_profile_template.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

adapter_policy

string

Name of Adapter Configuration Policy to associate with this template.

api_key_id

string / required

Public API Key ID associated with the private key.

If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_KEY_ID environment variable is used.

api_private_key

path / required

Filename (absolute path) or string of PEM formatted private key data to be used for Intersight API authentication.

If a string is used, Ansible vault should be used to encrypt string data.

Ex. ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-id tme@/Users/dsoper/Documents/vault_password_file ‘-----BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY-----

<your private key data>

-----END EC PRIVATE KEY-----’

If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable is used.

api_uri

string

URI used to access the Intersight API.

If not set, the value of the INTERSIGHT_API_URI environment variable is used.

Default: "https://intersight.com/api/v1"

bios_policy

string

Name of BIOS Policy to associate with this template.

boot_order_policy

string

Name of Boot Order Policy to associate with this template.

certificate_policy

string

Name of Certificate Management Policy to associate with this template.

description

aliases: descr

string

The user-defined description of the Server Profile Template.

Description can contain letters(a-z, A-Z), numbers(0-9), hyphen(-), period(.), colon(:), or an underscore(_).

device_connector_policy

string

Name of Device Connector Policy to associate with this template.

drive_security_policy

string

Name of Drive Security Policy to associate with this template.

firmware_policy

string

Name of Firmware Policy to associate with this template.

ipmi_over_lan_policy

string

Name of IPMI over LAN Policy to associate with this template.

lan_connectivity_policy

string

Name of LAN Connectivity Policy to associate with this template.

ldap_policy

string

Name of LDAP Policy to associate with this template.

local_user_policy

string

Name of Local User Policy to associate with this template.

memory_policy

string

Name of Memory Policy to associate with this template.

name

string / required

The name assigned to the Server Profile Template.

The name must be between 1 and 62 alphanumeric characters, allowing special characters :-_.

network_connectivity_policy

string

Name of Network Connectivity Policy to associate with this template.

ntp_policy

string

Name of NTP Policy to associate with this template.

organization

string

The name of the Organization this resource is assigned to.

Templates and Policies that are created within a Custom Organization are applicable only to devices in the same Organization.

Default: "default"

persistent_memory_policy

string

Name of Persistent Memory Policy to associate with this template.

power_policy

string

Name of Power Policy to associate with this template.

san_connectivity_policy

string

Name of SAN Connectivity Policy to associate with this template.

sd_card_policy

string

Name of SD Card Policy to associate with this template.

serial_over_lan_policy

string

Name of Serial over LAN Policy to associate with this template.

smtp_policy

string

Name of SMTP Policy to associate with this template.

snmp_policy

string

Name of SNMP Policy to associate with this template.

ssh_policy

string

Name of SSH Policy to associate with this template.

state

string

If present, will verify the resource is present and will create if needed.

If absent, will verify the resource is absent and will delete if needed.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

storage_policy

string

Name of Storage Policy to associate with this template.

syslog_policy

string

Name of Syslog Policy to associate with this template.

tags

list / elements=dictionary

List of tags in Key:<user-defined key> Value:<user-defined value> format.

target_platform

string

The platform for which the server profile template is applicable.

standalone for servers operating in Standalone mode.

fi-attached for servers attached to a Fabric Interconnect managed by Intersight.

unified-edge for Unified Edge servers.

Choices:

  • "standalone" ← (default)

  • "fi-attached"

  • "unified-edge"

thermal_policy

string

Name of Thermal Policy to associate with this template.

use_proxy

boolean

If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

validate_certs

boolean

Boolean control for verifying the api_uri TLS certificate

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

virtual_kvm_policy

string

Name of Virtual KVM Policy to associate with this template.

virtual_media_policy

string

Name of Virtual Media Policy to associate with this template.

Examples

- name: Create a basic Server Profile Template
  cisco.intersight.intersight_server_profile_template:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    organization: "default"
    name: "SPT-Standalone-Basic"
    description: "Basic standalone server profile template"
    target_platform: standalone
    tags:
      - Key: "Environment"
        Value: "Production"
    state: present

- name: Create a Server Profile Template with policies
  cisco.intersight.intersight_server_profile_template:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    organization: "default"
    name: "SPT-FI-Production"
    description: "FI-Attached template with policies"
    target_platform: fi-attached
    bios_policy: "BIOS-Production"
    boot_order_policy: "Boot-UEFI"
    firmware_policy: "FW-Latest"
    ntp_policy: "NTP-Corp"
    power_policy: "Power-Grid-Redundancy"
    storage_policy: "Storage-M2-Boot"
    lan_connectivity_policy: "LAN-Prod"
    san_connectivity_policy: "SAN-Prod"
    state: present

- name: Delete a Server Profile Template
  cisco.intersight.intersight_server_profile_template:
    api_private_key: "{{ api_private_key }}"
    api_key_id: "{{ api_key_id }}"
    name: "SPT-Standalone-Basic"
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

api_response

dictionary

The API response output returned by the specified resource.

Returned: always

Sample: {"api_response": {"Name": "SPT-FI-Production", "ObjectType": "server.ProfileTemplate", "PolicyBucket": [{"Moid": "6937ec186275723101f63708", "ObjectType": "bios.Policy"}, {"Moid": "69a42f0770686131014f259c", "ObjectType": "firmware.Policy"}], "Tags": [{"Key": "Environment", "Value": "Production"}], "TargetPlatform": "FIAttached"}}

Authors

  • Ron Gershburg (@rgershbu)