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# na_ontap_dns – NetApp ONTAP Create, delete, modify DNS servers

New in version 2.7.

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Status

## Synopsis

- Create, delete, modify DNS servers.

## Requirements

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

- A physical or virtual clustered Data ONTAP system. The modules support Data ONTAP 9.1 and onward

- Ansible 2.6

- Python2 netapp-lib (2017.10.30) or later. Install using ‘pip install netapp-lib’

- Python3 netapp-lib (2018.11.13) or later. Install using ‘pip install netapp-lib’

- To enable http on the cluster you must run the following commands ‘set -privilege advanced;’ ‘system services web modify -http-enabled true;’

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
domains - |  | List of DNS domains such as 'sales.bar.com'. The first domain is the one that the Vserver belongs to.
hostname string / required |  | The hostname or IP address of the ONTAP instance.
http_port integer |  | Override the default port (80 or 443) with this port
https boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Enable and disable https
nameservers - |  | List of IPv4 addresses of name servers such as '123.123.123.123'.
ontapi integer |  | The ontap api version to use
password string / required |  | Password for the specified user. aliases: pass
skip_validation boolean added in 2.8 | Choices: no yes | By default, all nameservers are checked to validate they are available to resolve. If you DNS servers are not yet installed or momentarily not available, you can set this option to 'true' to bypass the check for all servers specified in nameservers field.
state - | Choices: present ← absent | Whether the DNS servers should be enabled for the given vserver.
use_rest string | Choices: Never Always Auto ← | REST API if supported by the target system for all the resources and attributes the module requires. Otherwise will revert to ZAPI. Always -- will always use the REST API Never -- will always use the ZAPI Auto -- will try to use the REST Api
username string / required |  | This can be a Cluster-scoped or SVM-scoped account, depending on whether a Cluster-level or SVM-level API is required. For more information, please read the documentation https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/nmsdk/9.4/. aliases: user
validate_certs boolean | Choices: no yes ← | If set to `no`, the SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only set to `False` used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
vserver - / required |  | The name of the vserver to use.

## Notes

Note

- The modules prefixed with na\_ontap are built to support the ONTAP storage platform.

## Examples

    - name: create DNS
      na_ontap_dns:
        state: present
        hostname: "{{hostname}}"
        username: "{{username}}"
        password: "{{password}}"
        vserver:  "{{vservername}}"
        domains: sales.bar.com
        nameservers: 10.193.0.250,10.192.0.250
        skip_validation: true

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

- This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

### Authors

- NetApp Ansible Team (@carchi8py) <ng-ansibleteam@netapp.com>

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