community / community.vmware / 4.2.0 / module / vmware_category_info Gather info about VMware tag categories Authors: Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)community.vmware.vmware_category_info (4.2.0) — module
Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware:==4.2.0
collections: - name: community.vmware version: 4.2.0
This module can be used to gather information about VMware tag categories.
Tag feature is introduced in vSphere 6 version, so this module is not supported in earlier versions of vSphere.
All variables and VMware object names are case sensitive.
- name: Gather info about tag categories community.vmware.vmware_category_info: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" delegate_to: localhost register: all_tag_category_info
- name: Gather category id from given tag category community.vmware.vmware_category_info: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" delegate_to: localhost register: tag_category_results
- set_fact: category_id: "{{ item.category_id }}" loop: "{{ tag_category_results.tag_category_info|json_query(query) }}" vars: query: "[?category_name==`Category0001`]"
- debug: var=category_id
port: default: 443 description: - The port number of the vSphere vCenter. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_PORT) will be used instead. type: int hostname: description: - The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_HOST) will be used instead. type: str password: aliases: - pass - pwd description: - The password of the vSphere vCenter server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_PASSWORD) will be used instead. type: str protocol: choices: - http - https default: https description: - The connection to protocol. type: str username: aliases: - admin - user description: - The username of the vSphere vCenter server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_USER) will be used instead. type: str proxy_host: description: - Address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. - The format is a hostname or a IP. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_PROXY_HOST) will be used instead. required: false type: str proxy_port: description: - Port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_PROXY_PORT) will be used instead. required: false type: int validate_certs: default: true description: - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. - Set to V(false) when certificates are not trusted. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS) will be used instead. type: bool
tag_category_info: description: metadata of tag categories returned: always sample: - category_associable_types: [] category_cardinality: MULTIPLE category_description: awesome description category_id: urn:vmomi:InventoryServiceCategory:e785088d-6981-4b1c-9fb8-1100c3e1f742:GLOBAL category_name: Category0001 category_used_by: [] - category_associable_types: - VirtualMachine category_cardinality: SINGLE category_description: another awesome description category_id: urn:vmomi:InventoryServiceCategory:ae5b7c6c-e622-4671-9b96-76e93adb70f2:GLOBAL category_name: template_tag category_used_by: [] type: list