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na_cdot_user - useradmin configuration and management

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Create or destroy users.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • A physical or virtual clustered Data ONTAP system. The modules were developed with Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
  • Ansible 2.2
  • netapp-lib (2015.9.25). Install using ‘pip install netapp-lib’

Options

parameter required default choices comments
application
 yes
  • console
  • http
  • ontapi
  • rsh
  • snmp
  • sp
  • ssh
  • telnet
Applications to grant access to.
authentication_method
 yes
  • community
  • password
  • publickey
  • domain
  • nsswitch
  • usm
Authentication method for the application.
Not all authentication methods are valid for an application.
Valid authentication methods for each application are as denoted in authentication_choices_description.
password for console application
password, domain, nsswitch, cert for http application.
password, domain, nsswitch, cert for ontapi application.
community for snmp application (when creating SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 users).
usm and community for snmp application (when creating SNMPv3 users).
password for sp application.
password for rsh application.
password for telnet application.
password, publickey, domain, nsswitch for ssh application.
hostname
 yes
The hostname or IP address of the ONTAP instance.
name
 yes
The name of the user to manage.
password
 yes
Password for the specified user.
role_name
 no
The name of the role. Required when state=present
set_password
 no None
Password for the user account.
It is ignored for creating snmp users, but is required for creating non-snmp users.
For an existing user, this value will be used as the new password.
state
 yes
  • present
  • absent
Whether the specified user should exist or not.
username
 yes
This can be a Cluster-scoped or SVM-scoped account, depending on whether a Cluster-level or SVM-level API is required. For more information, please read the documentation https://goo.gl/BRu78Z.
vserver
 yes
The name of the vserver to use.

Examples

- name: Create User
  na_cdot_user:
    state: present
    name: SampleUser
    application: ssh
    authentication_method: password
    set_password: apn1242183u1298u41
    role_name: vsadmin
    vserver: ansibleVServer
    hostname: "{{ netapp_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ netapp_username }}"
    password: "{{ netapp_password }}"

Notes

Note

  • The modules prefixed with netapp\_cdot are built to support the ONTAP storage platform.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2017 Michael DeHaan
© 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/na_cdot_user_module.html