netscaler_nitro_request – Issue Nitro API requests to a Netscaler instance

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Issue Nitro API requests to a Netscaler instance.
• This is intended to be a short hand for using the uri Ansible module to issue the raw HTTP requests directly.
• It provides consistent return values and has no other dependencies apart from the base Ansible runtime environment.
• This module is intended to run either on the Ansible control node or a bastion (jumpserver) with access to the actual Netscaler instance

Parameters

Examples

- name: Add a server
  delegate_to: localhost
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ nsip }}"
    nitro_user: "{{ nitro_user }}"
    nitro_pass: "{{ nitro_pass }}"
    operation: add
    resource: server
    name: test-server-1
    attributes:
      name: test-server-1
      ipaddress: 192.168.1.1

- name: Update server
  delegate_to: localhost
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ nsip }}"
    nitro_user: "{{ nitro_user }}"
    nitro_pass: "{{ nitro_pass }}"
    operation: update
    resource: server
    name: test-server-1
    attributes:
      name: test-server-1
      ipaddress: 192.168.1.2

- name: Get server
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ nsip }}"
    nitro_user: "{{ nitro_user }}"
    nitro_pass: "{{ nitro_pass }}"
    operation: get
    resource: server
    name: test-server-1

- name: Delete server
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ nsip }}"
    nitro_user: "{{ nitro_user }}"
    nitro_pass: "{{ nitro_pass }}"
    operation: delete
    resource: server
    name: test-server-1

- name: Rename server
  delegate_to: localhost
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ nsip }}"
    nitro_user: "{{ nitro_user }}"
    nitro_pass: "{{ nitro_pass }}"
    operation: action
    action: rename
    resource: server
    attributes:
      name: test-server-1
      newname: test-server-2

- name: Get server by args
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ nsip }}"
    nitro_user: "{{ nitro_user }}"
    nitro_pass: "{{ nitro_pass }}"
    operation: get_by_args
    resource: server
    args:
      name: test-server-1

- name: Get server by filter
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: result
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ nsip }}"
    nitro_user: "{{ nitro_user }}"
    nitro_pass: "{{ nitro_pass }}"
    operation: get_filtered
    resource: server
    filter:
      ipaddress: 192.168.1.2

# Doing a NITRO request through MAS.
# Requires to have an authentication token from the mas_login and used as the nitro_auth_token parameter
# Also nsip is the MAS address and the target Netscaler IP must be defined with instance_ip
# The rest of the task arguments remain the same as when issuing the NITRO request directly to a Netscaler instance.

- name: Do mas login
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: login_result
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ mas_ip }}"
    nitro_user: "{{ nitro_user }}"
    nitro_pass: "{{ nitro_pass }}"
    operation: mas_login

- name: Add resource through MAS proxy
  delegate_to: localhost
  netscaler_nitro_request:
    nsip: "{{ mas_ip }}"
    nitro_auth_token: "{{ login_result.nitro_auth_token }}"
    instance_ip: "{{ nsip }}"
    operation: add
    resource: server
    name: test-server-1
    attributes:
      name: test-server-1
      ipaddress: 192.168.1.7

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• George Nikolopoulos (@giorgos-nikolopoulos)