skydive_capture – Module which manages flow capture on interfaces

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• This module manages flow capture on interfaces. The Gremlin expression is continuously evaluated which means that it is possible to define a capture on nodes that do not exist yet.
• It is useful when you want to start a capture on all OpenvSwitch whatever the number of Skydive agents you will start.
• While starting the capture, user can specify the capture name, capture description and capture type optionally.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• skydive-client

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: start a new flow capture directly from gremlin query
  skydive_capture:
    query: G.V().Has('Name', 'eth0', 'Type', 'device')
    state: present
    provider:
      endpoint: localhost:8082
      username: admin
      password: admin

- name: stop the flow capture directly from gremlin query
  skydive_capture:
    query: G.V().Has('Name', 'eth0', 'Type', 'device')
    state: absent
    provider:
      endpoint: localhost:8082
      username: admin
      password: admin

- name: start a new flow capture from user's input
  skydive_capture:
    interface_name: Node1
    type: myhost
    capture_name: test_capture
    description: test description
    extra_tcp_metric: true
    ip_defrag: true
    reassemble_tcp: true
    state: present
    provider:
      endpoint: localhost:8082
      username: admin
      password: admin

- name: stop the flow capture
  skydive_capture:
    interface_name: Node1
    type: myhost
    capture_name: test_capture
    description: test description
    extra_tcp_metric: true
    ip_defrag: true
    reassemble_tcp: true
    state: absent
    provider:
      endpoint: localhost:8082
      username: admin
      password: admin

Status

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

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Sumit Jaiswal (@sjaiswal)