Action File

Starting in Curator 4.1, you can use environment variables in your configuration files.

An action file has the following structure:

---
# Remember, leave a key empty if there is no value.  None will be a string,
# not a Python "NoneType"
#
# Also remember that all examples have 'disable_action' set to True.  If you
# want to use this action as a template, be sure to set this to False after
# copying it.
actions:
  1:
    action: ACTION1
    description: OPTIONAL DESCRIPTION
    options:
      option1: value1
      ...
      optionN: valueN
      continue_if_exception: False
      disable_action: True
    filters:
    - filtertype: *first*
      filter_element1: value1
      ...
      filter_elementN: valueN
    - filtertype: *second*
      filter_element1: value1
      ...
      filter_elementN: valueN
  2:
    action: ACTION2
    description: OPTIONAL DESCRIPTION
    options:
      option1: value1
      ...
      optionN: valueN
      continue_if_exception: False
      disable_action: True
    filters:
    - filtertype: *first*
      filter_element1: value1
      ...
      filter_elementN: valueN
    - filtertype: *second*
      filter_element1: value1
      ...
      filter_elementN: valueN
  3:
    action: ACTION3
    ...
  4:
    action: ACTION4
    ...

It is a YAML configuration file. The root key must be actions, after which there can be any number of actions, nested underneath numbers. Actions will be taken in the order they are completed.

The high-level elements of each numbered action are:

In the case of the alias action, there are two additional high-level elements: add and remove, which are described in the alias action documentation.

description

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This is an optional description which can help describe what the action and its filters are supposed to do.

description: >- I can make the description span multiple
    lines by putting ">-" at the beginning of the line,
    as seen above.  Subsequent lines must also be indented.
options:
  option1: ...

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