cisco.ise.tacacs_external_servers – Resource module for Tacacs External Servers

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.ise collection (version 2.1.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. 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 cisco.ise.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.ise.tacacs_external_servers.

New in version 1.0.0: of cisco.ise

Synopsis

• Manage operations create, update and delete of the resource Tacacs External Servers.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Requirements

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

• ciscoisesdk >= 1.3.0

• python >= 3.5

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
connectionPort integer		The port to connect the server.
description string		Tacacs External Servers's description.
hostIP string		The server IPV4 address.
id string		Tacacs External Servers's id.
ise_debug boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Flag for Identity Services Engine SDK to enable debugging.
ise_hostname string / required		The Identity Services Engine hostname.
ise_password string / required		The Identity Services Engine password to authenticate.
ise_username string / required		The Identity Services Engine username to authenticate.
ise_uses_api_gateway boolean added in 1.1.0 of cisco.ise	Choices: no yes ←	Flag that informs the SDK whether to use the Identity Services Engine's API Gateway to send requests. If it is true, it uses the ISE's API Gateway and sends requests to https://{{ise_hostname}}. If it is false, it sends the requests to https://{{ise_hostname}}:{{port}}, where the port value depends on the Service used (ERS, Mnt, UI, PxGrid).
ise_verify boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Flag to enable or disable SSL certificate verification.
ise_version string	Default: "3.1.1"	Informs the SDK which version of Identity Services Engine to use.
ise_wait_on_rate_limit boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Flag for Identity Services Engine SDK to enable automatic rate-limit handling.
name string		Tacacs External Servers's name.
sharedSecret string		The server shared secret.
singleConnect boolean	Choices: no yes	Define the use of single connection.
timeout integer		The server timeout.

Notes

Note

• Does not support check_mode

• The plugin runs on the control node and does not use any ansible connection plugins, but instead the embedded connection manager from Cisco ISE SDK

• The parameters starting with ise_ are used by the Cisco ISE Python SDK to establish the connection

See Also

See also

Tacacs External Servers reference

Complete reference of the Tacacs External Servers object model.

Examples

- name: Update by id
  cisco.ise.tacacs_external_servers:
    ise_hostname: "{{ise_hostname}}"
    ise_username: "{{ise_username}}"
    ise_password: "{{ise_password}}"
    ise_verify: "{{ise_verify}}"
    state: present
    connectionPort: 0
    description: string
    hostIP: string
    id: string
    name: string
    sharedSecret: string
    singleConnect: true
    timeout: 0

- name: Delete by id
  cisco.ise.tacacs_external_servers:
    ise_hostname: "{{ise_hostname}}"
    ise_username: "{{ise_username}}"
    ise_password: "{{ise_password}}"
    ise_verify: "{{ise_verify}}"
    state: absent
    id: string

- name: Create
  cisco.ise.tacacs_external_servers:
    ise_hostname: "{{ise_hostname}}"
    ise_username: "{{ise_username}}"
    ise_password: "{{ise_password}}"
    ise_verify: "{{ise_verify}}"
    state: present
    connectionPort: 0
    description: string
    hostIP: string
    name: string
    sharedSecret: string
    singleConnect: true
    timeout: 0

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
ise_response dictionary	always	A dictionary or list with the response returned by the Cisco ISE Python SDK Sample: { "id": "string", "name": "string", "description": "string", "hostIP": "string", "connectionPort": 0, "singleConnect": true, "sharedSecret": "string", "timeout": 0, "link": { "rel": "string", "href": "string", "type": "string" } }
ise_update_response dictionary added in 1.1.0 of cisco.ise	always	A dictionary or list with the response returned by the Cisco ISE Python SDK Sample: { "UpdatedFieldsList": { "updatedField": [ { "field": "string", "oldValue": "string", "newValue": "string" } ], "field": "string", "oldValue": "string", "newValue": "string" } }

Authors

• Rafael Campos (@racampos)