API not working as expected in Ansible

[dfmco]

I had broken out the creation of the user because I thought that maybe I had to have it existing BEFORE applying config but that was only a test and I forgot to restore the check back. Sorry for the confusion!

I re-read your ansible config and I must have looked at it 10 times and COMPLETELY MISSED the command vs contact! That was the issue!

Looks like it works well now!

Now that it is working I have 2 related followup questions if you could assist.

1. the documentation shows adding a user looking like this:

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- name: Add sns_critical user to OnShoreITNotificationGroup contact group in Nagios XI
  uri:
   url: http://{{ ansible_host }}/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/contactgroup/testcontactgroup?apikey={{ NagiosAPIKey }}&pretty=1&contactgroup_name=OnshoreITNotificationGroup&members=sns_critical
   method: PUT
   validate_certs: no
   timeout: 30

But I think it should look like this:

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- name: Add sns_critical user to OnShoreITNotificationGroup contact group in Nagios XI
  uri:
   url: http://{{ ansible_host }}/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/contactgroup/testcontactgroup?apikey={{ NagiosAPIKey }}&pretty=1
   body: contactgroup_name=OnshoreITNotificationGroup&members=sns_critical
   method: PUT
   validate_certs: no
   timeout: 30

Can you confirm?

2. Is there a way to check to see if the API call was successful and update to "changed" if I see a "success" to the API call? Unless it totally bombs, I am not sure if it worked or not unless I check it in the GUI. I was hoping you may have an example.

Thanks!

[lmiltchev]

I don't think adding "contactgroup_name=OnshoreITNotificationGroup&members=sns_critical" to the body would work with the PUT method... You should be using:

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- name: Add sns_critical user to OnShoreITNotificationGroup contact group in Nagios XI
  uri:
   url: http://{{ ansible_host }}/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/contactgroup/testcontactgroup?apikey={{ NagiosAPIKey }}&pretty=1&contactgroup_name=OnshoreITNotificationGroup&members=sns_critical&applyconfig=1
   method: PUT
   validate_certs: no
   timeout: 30

You can verify that the contact group was added by running the following command:

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curl -XGET "http://<nagios xi server's ip address>/nagiosxi/api/v1/objects/contactgroup?apikey=<api key>&pretty=1&contactgroup_name=OnshoreITNotificationGroup"

To see the members:

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curl -XGET "http://<nagios xi server's ip address>/nagiosxi/api/v1/objects/contactgroupmembers?apikey=<api key>&pretty=1&contactgroup_name=OnshoreITNotificationGroup"

[dfmco]

Thanks! I did not see applyconfig=1 as an option in the docs but I will add that!

Please close the case. You have been VERY helpful. Off to do some coding!

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks! I did not see applyconfig=1 as an option in the docs but I will add that!

Please close the case. You have been VERY helpful. Off to do some coding!

Great!

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