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# ovirt_network – Module to manage logical networks in oVirt/RHV

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## Synopsis

- Module to manage logical networks in oVirt/RHV

## Requirements

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

- python >= 2.7
- ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.3.0

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
auth dictionary / required |  | Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:
| ca_file string |  | A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates. The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates. If `ca_file` parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used. Default value is set by `OVIRT_CAFILE` environment variable.
| headers dictionary |  | Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.
| hostname string |  | A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like `server.example.com`. Default value is set by `OVIRT_HOSTNAME` environment variable. Either `url` or `hostname` is required.
| insecure boolean | Choices: no yes | A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked.
| kerberos boolean | Choices: no yes | A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication.
| password string / required |  | The password of the user. Default value is set by `OVIRT_PASSWORD` environment variable.
| token string |  | Token to be used instead of login with username/password. Default value is set by `OVIRT_TOKEN` environment variable.
| url string |  | A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`. Default value is set by `OVIRT_URL` environment variable. Either `url` or `hostname` is required.
| username string / required |  | The name of the user, something like admin@internal. Default value is set by `OVIRT_USERNAME` environment variable.
clusters - |  | List of dictionaries describing how the network is managed in specific cluster.
| assigned boolean | Choices: no yes | true if the network should be assigned to cluster. Default is true.
| display boolean | Choices: no yes | true if the network should marked as display network.
| gluster boolean | Choices: no yes | true if the network should marked as gluster network.
| migration boolean | Choices: no yes | true if the network should marked as migration network.
| name - |  | Cluster name.
| required boolean | Choices: no yes | true if the network must remain operational for all hosts associated with this network.
comment - |  | Comment of the network.
data_center - |  | Datacenter name where network reside.
description - |  | Description of the network.
external_provider - added in 2.8 |  | Name of external network provider. At first it tries to import the network when not found it will create network in external provider.
fetch_nested boolean | Choices: no yes | If True the module will fetch additional data from the API. It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying `nested_attributes`.
id - added in 2.8 |  | ID of the network to manage.
label - added in 2.5 |  | Name of the label to assign to the network.
mtu - |  | Maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the network.
name - / required |  | Name of the network to manage.
nested_attributes list |  | Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API. This parameter apply only when `fetch_nested` is true.
poll_interval integer | Default: 3 | Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent.
state - | Choices: present ← absent | Should the network be present or absent
timeout integer | Default: 180 | The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the instance to get into desired state.
vlan_tag - |  | Specify VLAN tag.
vm_network boolean | Choices: no yes | If True network will be marked as network for VM. VM network carries traffic relevant to the virtual machine.
wait boolean | Choices: no yes ← | `yes` if the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state.

## Notes

Note

- In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.3.0

## Examples

    # Examples don't contain auth parameter for simplicity,
    # look at ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication:

    # Create network
    - ovirt_network:
        data_center: mydatacenter
        name: mynetwork
        vlan_tag: 1
        vm_network: true

    # Remove network
    - ovirt_network:
        state: absent
        name: mynetwork

    # Change Network Name
    - ovirt_network:
        id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        name: "new_network_name"
        data_center: mydatacenter

    # Add network from external provider
    - ovirt_network:
        data_center: mydatacenter
        name: mynetwork
        external_provider: ovirt-provider-ovn

## Return Values

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

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
id string | On success if network is found. | ID of the managed network Sample: 7de90f31-222c-436c-a1ca-7e655bd5b60c
network dictionary | On success if network is found. | Dictionary of all the network attributes. Network attributes can be found on your oVirt/RHV instance at following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/network.

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Ondra Machacek (@machacekondra)

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