community.general.xenserver_facts module – Get facts reported on xenserver

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.xenserver_facts.

Synopsis

  • Reads data out of XenAPI, can be used instead of multiple xe commands.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

added in community.general 3.3.0

This action does not modify state.

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

diff_mode

Support: N/A

This action does not modify state.

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

facts

Support: full

Action returns an ansible_facts dictionary that will update existing host facts.

Examples

- name: Gather facts from xenserver
  community.general.xenserver_facts:

- name: Print running VMs
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ item }}"
  with_items: "{{ xs_vms.keys() }}"
  when: xs_vms[item]['power_state'] == "Running"

# Which will print:
#
# TASK: [Print running VMs] ***********************************************************
# skipping: [10.13.0.22] => (item=CentOS 4.7 (32-bit))
# ok: [10.13.0.22] => (item=Control domain on host: 10.0.13.22) => {
#     "item": "Control domain on host: 10.0.13.22",
#     "msg": "Control domain on host: 10.0.13.22"
# }

Authors

  • Andy Hill (@andyhky)

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

  • Robin Lee (@cheese)