The complete example: ansible task: - name: SHUTDOWN EPG aci_rest: hostname: 'YOUR APIC IP' username: 'yourUsername' password: 'yourPassword' method: post path: /api/mo.json src: /path/to/json/file.json delegate_to: localhost Config File (/path/to/json/file.json) { "fvAEPg": { "attributes": { "dn": "uni/tn-MZE/ap-TEST/epg-APP", "shutdown": "true" } } Or without a config file: - name: SHUTDOWN EPG aci_rest: hostname: 'YOUR APIC IP' username: 'yourUsername' password: 'yourPassword' method: post path: /api/mo.json content: | { "fvAEPg": { "attributes": { "dn": "uni/tn-MZE/ap-TEST/epg-APP", "shutdown": "true" } } delegate_to: localhost   ... View more

Hi You can use the aci_rest ansible module (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/aci_rest_module.html) to post the following json-dict to /api/mo.json - you need to replace <YOUR-EPG-DN> with your actual EPG-DN (for example epg "APP" in application-profile "TEST" in tenant "MZE" is "uni/tn-MZE/ap-TEST/epg-APP")    HTH Marcel { "fvAEPg": { "attributes": { "dn": "<YOUR-EPG-DN>", "shutdown": "true" } } } ... View more