community.general.rhn_channel module – Adds or removes Red Hat software channels

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

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.general.

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

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 10.0.0

Why:

RHN hosted at redhat.com was discontinued years ago, and Spacewalk 5 (which uses RHN) is EOL since 2020, May 31st; while this module could work on Uyuni / SUSE Manager (fork of Spacewalk 5), we have not heard about anyone using it in those setups.

Alternative:

Contact the community.general maintainers to report the usage of this module, and potentially step up to maintain it.

Synopsis

  • Adds or removes Red Hat software channels.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

name

string / required

Name of the software channel.

password

aliases: pwd

string / required

RHN/Satellite password.

state

string

Whether the channel should be present or not, taking action if the state is different from what is stated.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

sysname

string / required

Name of the system as it is known in RHN/Satellite.

url

string / required

The full URL to the RHN/Satellite API.

user

string / required

RHN/Satellite login.

validate_certs

boolean

added in community.general 0.2.0

If false, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to false when used on self controlled sites using self-signed certificates, and you are absolutely sure that nobody can modify traffic between the module and the site.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • This module fetches the system id from RHN.

Examples

- name: Add a Red Hat software channel
  community.general.rhn_channel:
    name: rhel-x86_64-server-v2vwin-6
    sysname: server01
    url: https://rhn.redhat.com/rpc/api
    user: rhnuser
    password: guessme
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 10.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Vincent Van der Kussen (@vincentvdk)