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[minor_change] Added support for description to aci_syslog_group module.
Dev-Sinha13 May 20, 2025
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[ignore] Updated Test file for aci_syslog_group
Dev-Sinha13 May 21, 2025
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[minor_change] Added two new attributes to aci_syslog_group and optio…
Dev-Sinha13 May 30, 2025
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[ignore] Added description for default values of attributes in aci_sy…
Dev-Sinha13 Jun 2, 2025
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[ignore] Fixed documentation issues
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[minor change] Added enhanced_log option as an alias to rfc
Dev-Sinha13 Jun 11, 2025
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[ignore] Added a constant for format
Dev-Sinha13 Jun 12, 2025
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[ignore] Fixed arguments for format to include constant
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[ignore] fixed enhanced log description
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[ignore] Added verification for idempotency for the DELETE
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[ignore] Changed rfc5424-ts to rfc5424_ts
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64 changes: 58 additions & 6 deletions plugins/modules/aci_syslog_group.py
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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Copyright: (c) 2021, Tim Cragg (@timcragg)
# Copyright: (c) 2025, Dev Sinha (@DevSinha13)
# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSE or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
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description:
- Severity of events to log to console
type: str
choices: [ alerts, critical, debugging, emergencies, error, information, notifications, warnings ]
choices: [ alerts, critical, emergencies]
local_file_logging:
description:
- Log to local file
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format:
description:
- Format of the syslog messages. If omitted when creating a group, ACI defaults to using aci format.
- C(rfc5424-ts) is only availible starting from version ACI 5.2(8).
type: str
choices: [ aci, nxos, rfc5424-ts ]
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In the UI of 6.0.9d rfc5424-ts is mentioned as enhanced_log, should we provide this as input and map it to the correct value in the payload?

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The APIC that I am using and have been using for testing this module is 6.0(2h). Is there a way I can check what 6.0.9d would be like?

local_file_log_format:
description:
- The format of the local file log messages. If ommitted then uses same format as the format set for syslog messages.
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what are local_file_log_format and console_log_format set to when O(format) is not provided?

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If there is no value for O(format) then the APIC sets its value to "aci" automatically so by default even if O(format) isn't provided the value for local_file_log_format and console_log_format is "aci" aswell.

- C(rfc5424-ts) is only availible starting from version ACI 5.2(8).
type: str
choices: [ aci, nxos ]
choices: [ aci, nxos, rfc5424-ts ]
console_log_format:
description:
- Format of the console log messages. If ommitted then uses the same format as the format set for syslog messages.
- C(rfc5424-ts) is only availible starting from version ACI 5.2(8).
type: str
choices: [ aci, nxos, rfc5424-ts ]
include_ms:
description:
- Include milliseconds in log timestamps
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- Name of the syslog group
type: str
aliases: [ syslog_group, syslog_group_name ]
description:
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In the format attribute in latest version it is also possible to configure Enhanced Log option rfc5424-ts, same applies to format in aci_syslog_remote_dest. Please find out what this is and add to choices if applicable.

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also the children syslogConsole and syslogFile seem to have format also, is this something that can be configured?

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In UI and model 6.0.9d the severity is restricted to only 3 option for console, please check if we should remove existing values if they do not work? Also verify the models of earlier versions of ACI.

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1.)Ok I have added the new option "rfc5424-ts"
2.)Yes it can be configured and exposed a format attribute for syslogConsole and syslogFile
3.)I have addressed the severity options

description:
- Description for the syslog group.
type: str
aliases: [ descr ]
state:
description:
- Use C(present) or C(absent) for adding or removing.
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link: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/apic-mim-ref/
author:
- Tim Cragg (@timcragg)
- Dev Sinha (@DevSinha13)
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update example below with description attribute included

"""

EXAMPLES = r"""
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local_file_log_severity: warnings
console_logging: enabled
console_log_severity: critical
description: syslog group
state: present
delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create a syslog group with local_file_log_format and console_log_format
cisco.aci.aci_syslog_group:
host: apic
username: admin
password: SomeSecretPassword
format: aci
name: my_syslog_group
local_file_logging: enabled
local_file_log_severity: warnings
console_logging: enabled
console_log_severity: critical
local_file_log_format: rfc5424-ts
console_log_format: rfc5424-ts
description: syslog group
state: present


- name: Disable logging to local file
cisco.aci.aci_syslog_group:
host: apic
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argument_spec.update(aci_annotation_spec())
argument_spec.update(
name=dict(type="str", aliases=["syslog_group", "syslog_group_name"]),
format=dict(type="str", choices=["aci", "nxos"]),
format=dict(type="str", choices=["aci", "nxos", "rfc5424-ts"]),
local_file_log_format=dict(type="str", choices=["aci", "nxos", "rfc5424-ts"]),
console_log_format=dict(type="str", choices=["aci", "nxos", "rfc5424-ts"]),
admin_state=dict(type="str", choices=["enabled", "disabled"]),
console_logging=dict(type="str", choices=["enabled", "disabled"]),
console_log_severity=dict(type="str", choices=["alerts", "critical", "debugging", "emergencies", "error", "information", "notifications", "warnings"]),
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Since some choices here are removed this would be classified as a breaking change. Even though they may not be valid severity levels some users could have these configured in their playbooks.
Instead of removing the values, we could log a warning using module.warn(msg) stating that the choice of severity is no longer valid. Then we revert the choice to the default.

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How would a user have this configured in a working playbook?

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I see, the full set of severity levels only applies to file log and there was always only ever 3 options for console log in the meta. Makes sense to remove them.

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Indeed, these options were never exposed in any version of ACI. I checked the meta files back to 3.0 version. Any usage of these attributes would result in APIC 120 error response that the input is not allowed. We could consider labelling it a bugfix?

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I would still label the PR as a minor change due to the other changes and additional options.

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I thought that the information was taken from the commit messages? Or is it from PR title? The commit messages are marked with [minor_change].

console_log_severity=dict(type="str", choices=["alerts", "critical", "emergencies"]),
local_file_logging=dict(type="str", choices=["enabled", "disabled"]),
local_file_log_severity=dict(
type="str", choices=["alerts", "critical", "debugging", "emergencies", "error", "information", "notifications", "warnings"]
),
include_ms=dict(type="bool"),
include_time_zone=dict(type="bool"),
state=dict(type="str", default="present", choices=["absent", "present", "query"]),
description=dict(type="str", aliases=["descr"]),
)

module = AnsibleModule(
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admin_state = module.params.get("admin_state")
console_logging = module.params.get("console_logging")
console_log_severity = module.params.get("console_log_severity")
console_log_format = module.params.get("console_log_format")
local_file_log_format = module.params.get("local_file_log_format")
local_file_logging = module.params.get("local_file_logging")
local_file_log_severity = module.params.get("local_file_log_severity")
include_ms = aci.boolean(module.params.get("include_ms"))
include_time_zone = aci.boolean(module.params.get("include_time_zone"))
state = module.params.get("state")
description = module.params.get("description")

if console_log_format is None:
console_log_format = format

if local_file_log_format is None:
local_file_log_format = format

aci.construct_url(
root_class=dict(
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class_config = dict(
name=name,
format=format,
descr=description,
includeMilliSeconds=include_ms,
)
if include_time_zone is not None:
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),
dict(
syslogFile=dict(
attributes=dict(adminState=local_file_logging, format=format, severity=local_file_log_severity),
attributes=dict(adminState=local_file_logging, format=local_file_log_format, severity=local_file_log_severity),
),
),
dict(
syslogConsole=dict(
attributes=dict(adminState=console_logging, format=format, severity=console_log_severity),
attributes=dict(adminState=console_logging, format=console_log_format, severity=console_log_severity),
),
),
],
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