While returning puppet logs as ansible stdout is useful in some cases,
there are also cases where it's more destructive than helpful. For
those, local logging to syslog so that the ansible logging makes sense
is very useful.
This defaults to stdout so that behavior does not change for people.
win_uri uses "Invoke-WebRequest" under the covers, which apparently
uses Internet Explorer to parse a webpage. The problem is if a user
has never run Internet Explorer, it will be unable to do that. The
work around for this is to set the "-UseBasicParsing" flag.
The only advantage to having the Internet Explorer parsed page is
that you can then access the DOM as if it was a powershell
argument. That doesn't seem super useful for Ansible to be able
to do, so I set the default to be "-UseBasicParsing"
When this module was written back in May 2015 we were using 1.9.x. Being lazy I added to param the objects that the other functions would need. What I have noticed is in 2.0 exit_json is trying to jsonify those complex objects and failing. This PR resolves that issue with the vmware_vm_vss_dvs_migrate module.
@kamsz reported this issue in https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1568
Playbook
```
- name: Migrate VCSA to vDS
local_action:
module: vmware_vm_vss_dvs_migrate
hostname: "{{ mgmt_ip_address }}"
username: "{{ vcsa_user }}"
password: "{{ vcsa_pass }}"
vm_name: "{{ hostname }}"
dvportgroup_name: Management
```
Module Testing
```
ASK [Migrate VCSA to vDS] *****************************************************
task path: /opt/autodeploy/projects/emmet/site_deploy.yml:260
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
localhost EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454695546.3-207189190861859 )" && echo "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454695546.3-207189190861859 )" )
localhost PUT /tmp/tmpkzD4pF TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454695546.3-207189190861859/vmware_vm_vss_dvs_migrate
localhost EXEC LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454695546.3-207189190861859/vmware_vm_vss_dvs_migrate; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454695546.3-207189190861859/" > /dev/null 2>&1
changed: [foundation-vcsa -> localhost] => {"changed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"dvportgroup_name": "Management", "hostname": "172.27.0.100", "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER", "username": "root", "vm_name": "cscvcatmp001"}, "module_name": "vmware_vm_vss_dvs_migrate"}, "result": null}
```
When this module was written back in May 2015 we were using 1.9.x. Being lazy I added to param the objects that the other functions would need. What I have noticed is in 2.0 exit_json is trying to jsonify those complex objects and failing. This PR resolves that issue with the vmware_dvs_portgroup module.
@kamsz reported this issue in https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1568
Playbook
```
- name: Create Management portgroup
local_action:
module: vmware_dvs_portgroup
hostname: "{{ mgmt_ip_address }}"
username: "{{ vcsa_user }}"
password: "{{ vcsa_pass }}"
portgroup_name: Management
switch_name: dvSwitch
vlan_id: "{{ hostvars[groups['foundation_esxi'][0]].mgmt_vlan_id }}"
num_ports: 120
portgroup_type: earlyBinding
state: present
```
Module Testing
```
TASK [Create Management portgroup] *********************************************
task path: /opt/autodeploy/projects/emmet/tasks/deploy/dvs_network.yml:17
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
localhost EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410 )" && echo "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410 )" )
localhost PUT /tmp/tmpeQ8M1U TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410/vmware_dvs_portgroup
localhost EXEC LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410/vmware_dvs_portgroup; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693809.13-142252676354410/" > /dev/null 2>&1
changed: [foundation-vcsa -> localhost] => {"changed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"hostname": "172.27.0.100", "num_ports": 120, "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER", "portgroup_name": "Management", "portgroup_type": "earlyBinding", "state": "present", "switch_name": "dvSwitch", "username": "root", "vlan_id": 2700}, "module_name": "vmware_dvs_portgroup"}, "result": "None"}
```
When this module was written back in May 2015 we were using 1.9.x. Being lazy I added to param the objects that the other functions would need. What I have noticed is in 2.0 exit_json is trying to jsonify those complex objects and failing. This PR resolves that issue with the vmware_dvswitch module.
@kamsz reported this issue in https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1568
Playbook
```
- name: Create dvswitch
local_action:
module: vmware_dvswitch
hostname: "{{ mgmt_ip_address }}"
username: "{{ vcsa_user }}"
password: "{{ vcsa_pass }}"
datacenter_name: "{{ mgmt_vdc }}"
switch_name: dvSwitch
mtu: 1500
uplink_quantity: 2
discovery_proto: lldp
discovery_operation: both
state: present
```
Module Testing
```
TASK [Create dvswitch] *********************************************************
task path: /opt/autodeploy/projects/emmet/tasks/deploy/dvs_network.yml:3
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
localhost EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014 )" && echo "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014 )" )
localhost PUT /tmp/tmptb3e2c TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014/vmware_dvswitch
localhost EXEC LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014/vmware_dvswitch; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693792.01-113207408596014/" > /dev/null 2>&1
changed: [foundation-vcsa -> localhost] => {"changed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"datacenter_name": "Test-Lab", "discovery_operation": "both", "discovery_proto": "lldp", "hostname": "172.27.0.100", "mtu": 1500, "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER", "state": "present", "switch_name": "dvSwitch", "uplink_quantity": 2, "username": "root"}, "module_name": "vmware_dvswitch"}, "result": "'vim.dvs.VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch:dvs-9'"}
```
When this module was written back in May 2015 we were using 1.9.x. Being lazy I added to param the objects that the other functions would need. What I have noticed is in 2.0 exit_json is trying to jsonify those complex objects and failing. This PR resolves that issue with the vmware_cluster module.
@kamsz reported this issue in https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1568
Playbook
```
- name: Create Cluster
local_action:
module: vmware_cluster
hostname: "{{ mgmt_ip_address }}"
username: "{{ vcsa_user }}"
password: "{{ vcsa_pass }}"
datacenter_name: "{{ mgmt_vdc }}"
cluster_name: "{{ mgmt_cluster }}"
enable_ha: True
enable_drs: True
enable_vsan: True
```
Module testing
```
TASK [Create Cluster] **********************************************************
task path: /opt/autodeploy/projects/emmet/site_deploy.yml:188
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
localhost EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233 )" && echo "$( echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233 )" )
localhost PUT /tmp/tmpAJfdPb TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233/vmware_cluster
localhost EXEC LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233/vmware_cluster; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1454693788.92-14097560271233/" > /dev/null 2>&1
changed: [foundation-vcsa -> localhost] => {"changed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"cluster_name": "Foundation", "datacenter_name": "Test-Lab", "enable_drs": true, "enable_ha": true, "enable_vsan": true, "hostname": "172.27.0.100", "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER", "state": "present", "username": "root"}, "module_name": "vmware_cluster"}}
```
Matt Davis