UNSTABLE - WORK IN PROGRESS

ansible ds389_module Design

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General considerations

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This module goals are:

• [1] Manage 389ds instances configuration. Including:
  • Manage state: present/absent/started/stopped
  • Manage the dse.ldif parameters
• [2] Gather fact about 389ds instances configuration:
  • Getting the existing instance
  • Getting the state started/stopped
  • Getting the dse.ldif parameters

Parameters

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Upper level parameters

Name	Optional	Kind	Description
State	True	Enum present/absent/update/started/stopped	Determine the state of the instances. - present may add instances/backends/index/agreements but does not remove them - absent remove any 389ds related resources listed in the ds389  parameter - update synchronize the parameter. It does remove configured resources that are not specified in the parameters - started Ensure that all instances are started - stopped Ensure that all parameters are stopped
ds389	True	Dict	The instances parameters for [1]
ds389info	True	Dict	The prefix parameters
ansiblevars	False	Dict	Some variable got from the ansible framework

## Nested level parameters

The details of the options should be fully documented in the ansible_collections/ds389/ansible_ds/playbooks/roles/ds389_server/README.md file that is delivered with the ds389.ansible collection (The list is quite long To ensure that the document is accurate, this file will be generated dynamically from the module options table)

## ds389 parameters

Plugins

ds389_server action plugin

The role of this plugin is to gather the data from inventory and the plugin parameters and

Potential future developments

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• Getting the monitoring fact