This collection provides a series of Ansible modules and plugins for interacting with the IBM Copy Services Manager product. For more information regarding this products, see IBM Documentation.
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- CONTRIBUTING.md
- REVIEW_CHECKLIST.md
- Ansible Community Guide
- Ansible Development Guide
- Ansible Collection Development Guide
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Tested with the current Ansible 2.17 releases and the current development version of Ansible. Ansible versions before 2.9.10 are not supported.
| Name | Minimum Version |
|---|---|
| pycsm | v1.0.1 |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ibm_csm_active_standby_action | Manage the active / standby server connection for a CSM server |
| ibm_csm_copyset_manage | Add or remove copy sets for a CSM session |
| ibm_csm_info | Query all aspects of sessions and the server |
| ibm_csm_run_any_rest_call | Use this module to call anything supported in REST but not yet in the collection |
| ibm_csm_scheduled_task_action | Run, enable or disable scheduled tasks |
| ibm_session_action | Issue commands against a CSM session |
| ibm_csm_session_manage | Create or delete CSM sessions |
Before using this collection, you need to install it with the Ansible Galaxy command-line tool:
ansible-galaxy collection install ibm.csmYou can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:
---
collections:
- name: ibm.csmNote that if you install the collection from Ansible Galaxy, it will not be upgraded automatically when you upgrade the ansible package. To upgrade the collection to the latest available version, run the following command:
ansible-galaxy collection install ibm.csm --upgradeYou can also install a specific version of the collection, for example, if you need to downgrade when something is broken in the latest version (please report an issue in this repository). Use the following syntax to install version 0.1.0:
ansible-galaxy collection install ibm.csm:==0.1.0See Ansible Using collections for more details.
See the changelog.
- Ansible Collection overview
- Ansible User guide
- Ansible Developer guide
- Ansible Collections Checklist
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- News for Maintainers
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