# ovirt_event_info – This module can be used to retrieve information about one or more oVirt/RHV events

New in version 2.8.

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## Synopsis

- Retrieve information about one or more oVirt/RHV events.
- This module was called `ovirt_event_facts` before Ansible 2.9, returning `ansible_facts`. Note that the ovirt_event_info module no longer returns `ansible_facts`!

Aliases: ovirt_event_facts

## Requirements

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

- python >= 2.7
- ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.3.0

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---

auth
dictionary / required

Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:
`username`[required] - The name of the user, something like admin@internal. Default value is set by OVIRT_USERNAME environment variable.
`password`[required] - The password of the user. Default value is set by OVIRT_PASSWORD environment variable.
`url`- A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`. Default value is set by OVIRT_URL environment variable. Either `url` or `hostname` is required.
`hostname` - A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like `server.example.com`. Default value is set by OVIRT_HOSTNAME environment variable. Either `url` or `hostname` is required.
`token` - Token to be used instead of login with username/password. Default value is set by OVIRT_TOKEN environment variable.
`insecure` - A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked.
`ca_file` - A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates. The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates. If ``ca_file`` parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used. Default value is set by OVIRT_CAFILE environment variable.
`kerberos` - A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication.
`headers` - Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.

case_sensitive
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes ←

Indicates if the search performed using the search parameter should be performed taking case into account. The default value is true, which means that case is taken into account. If you want to search ignoring case set it to false.

fetch_nested
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If yes the module will fetch additional data from the API.
It will fetch only IDs of nested entity. It doesn't fetch multiple levels of nested attributes. Only the attributes of the current entity. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying `nested_attributes`.

from_ integer |  | Indicates the event index after which events should be returned. The indexes of events are strictly increasing, so when this parameter is used only the events with greater indexes will be returned.
headers string |  | Additional HTTP headers.
max integer |  | Sets the maximum number of events to return. If not specified all the events are returned.
nested_attributes list |  | Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API. This parameter apply only when `fetch_nested` is true.
query string |  | Additional URL query parameters.
search string |  | Search term which is accepted by the oVirt/RHV API. For example to search for events of severity alert use the following pattern: severity=alert

wait
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes ←

If True wait for the response.

## Notes

Note

- In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.3.0

## Examples

    # Examples don't contain the auth parameter for simplicity,
    # look at the ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication.

    - name: Return all events
      ovirt_event_info:
      register: result

    - name: Return the last 10 events
      ovirt_event_info:
        max: 10
      register: result

    - name: Return all events of type alert
      ovirt_event_info:
        search: "severity=alert"
      register: result
    - debug:
        msg: "{{ result.ovirt_events }}"

## Return Values

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

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
ovirt_events list | On success." | List of dictionaries describing the events. Event attributes are mapped to dictionary keys. All event attributes can be found at the following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/event

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Chris Keller (@nasx)

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