Cannot inherit EAs from parent network while creating a host record

[nikhilsharma343]

Hi,

Is there a way we can inherit EAs from parent network while creating a host record. I tried use_for_ea_inheritance: true but getting this error, was under impression NIOS inheriting the infoblox-client python module methods?

• name: Create Host Record
        nios_host_record:
          name: "{{ user_fqdn }}"
          ipv4addrs:
            - ipv4addr: "{{ user_ip }}"
            - use_for_ea_inheritance: true
          state: present
          provider:
            host: "{{ infoblox_server }}"
            username: "{{ infoblox_user }}"
            password: "{{ infoblox_pass }}"

[robertattenberger]

Hello,

I have got basically the same problem, but I use minimal different task-call and get a different error. The result that I cannot inherit EAs from parent network while creating a host record is also the same.

My task-call is the following:

- name: create DNS-host-record
  infoblox.nios_modules.nios_host_record:
    ipv4addrs:
      - ipv4addr: "{{ ip }}"
        use_for_ea_inheritance: true
    name: "{{ fqdn }}"
    provider:
      host: "{{ infoblox_fqdn }}"
      password: "{{ infoblox_password }}"
      username: "{{ infoblox_username }}"
    state: present
delegate_to: localhost

So I leave the "-" ahead of "use_for_ea_inheritance" away.
My error message is 'Unsupported parameters for (infoblox.nios_modules.nios_host_record) module: ipv4addrs.use_for_ea_inheritance. Supported parameters include: comment, view (dns_view), configure_for_dns (dns), aliases, state, extattrs, ipv4addrs (ipv4), provider, ipv6addrs (ipv6), ttl, name.'

I was able to fix that problem by doing the following adaption in collections/ansible_collections/infoblox/nios_modules/plugins/modules/nios_host_record.py

@@ -328,7 +328,8 @@ def main():
         configure_for_dhcp=dict(type='bool', required=False, aliases=['dhcp']),
         mac=dict(required=False),
         add=dict(type='bool', required=False),
-        remove=dict(type='bool', required=False)
+        remove=dict(type='bool', required=False),
+        use_for_ea_inheritance=dict(type='bool', required=False)
     )
     ipv6addr_spec = dict(

It would be great, if that or a similar adaption could be done in the official collection. This would affect that everyone could use it and we can upgrade the collection without needing to mention about that adaption.

[johnrmarley]

Looks there are a bunch of other parameters listed in the docs that are not supported either. There are eight other use_* parameters in the docs for starters.
https://ipam.illinois.edu/wapidoc/objects/record.host_ipv4addr.html

[pcunning-rh]

+1 on adding use_for_ea_inheritance=dict(type='bool', required=False) to the nios_host_record.py module, this has helped us with the same issue.

[SanjeevManurkar]

We will look at this and try to prioritize this ask for upcoming releases.

[JkhatriInfobox]

Support for user_for_ea_inheritance has been added in the nios_module as of v1.7.0.
The pull request for this feature (#265) has been merged and released.

Therefore, we are closing this issue. If the problem persists, please feel free to reopen it or create a new issue.