bigip_traffic_group - Manages traffic groups on BIG-IP
New in version 2.5.
Synopsis
- Supports managing traffic groups and their attributes on a BIG-IP.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- f5-sdk >= 3.0.9
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | |
---|---|---|---|
mac_address (added in 2.6) | Specifies the floating Media Access Control (MAC) address associated with the floating IP addresses defined for a traffic group. Primarily, a MAC masquerade address minimizes ARP communications or dropped packets as a result of failover. A MAC masquerade address ensures that any traffic destined for a specific traffic group reaches an available device after failover, which happens because along with the traffic group, the MAC masquerade address floats to the available device. Without a MAC masquerade address, the sending host must learn the MAC address for a newly-active device, either by sending an ARP request or by relying on the gratuitous ARP from the newly-active device. To unset the MAC address, specify an empty value ( "" ) to this parameter. | ||
name required | The name of the traffic group. | ||
partition | Default: "Common" | Device partition to manage resources on. | |
password required | The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set.aliases: pass, pwd | ||
provider (added in 2.5) | A dict object containing connection details. | ||
password required | The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set.aliases: pass, pwd | ||
server required | The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set. | ||
server_port | Default: 443 | The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set. | |
user required | The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_USER is set. | ||
validate_certs bool |
| If no , SSL certificates will not be validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set. | |
timeout | Default: 10 | Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error. | |
ssh_keyfile | Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead. | ||
transport required |
| Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. | |
server required | The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set. | ||
server_port (added in 2.2) | Default: 443 | The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set. | |
state |
| When present , ensures that the traffic group exists.When absent , ensures the traffic group is removed. | |
user required | The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_USER is set. | ||
validate_certs bool (added in 2.0) |
| If no , SSL certificates will not be validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set. |
Notes
Note
- For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
- Requires the f5-sdk Python package on the host. This is as easy as
pip install f5-sdk
.
Examples
- name: Create a traffic group bigip_traffic_group: name: foo password: secret server: lb.mydomain.com state: present user: admin delegate_to: localhost
Status
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
Maintenance
This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.
For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.
Author
- Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)
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