purestorage.flasharray.purefa_banner – Configure Pure Storage FlashArray GUI and SSH MOTD message

Note

This plugin is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.11.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install purestorage.flasharray.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_banner.

New in version 1.0.0: of purestorage.flasharray

Synopsis

  • Configure MOTD for Pure Storage FlashArrays.
  • This will be shown during an SSH or GUI login to the array.
  • Multiple line messages can be achieved using \n.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • purestorage >= 1.19
  • py-pure-client >= 1.6.0
  • netaddr
  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_token
string
FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.
banner
string
Default:
"Welcome to the machine..."
Banner text, or MOTD, to use
fa_url
string
FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Set ot delete the MOTD

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purestorage and py-pure-client Python libraries
  • Additional Python librarues may be required for specific modules.
  • You must set PUREFA_URL and PUREFA_API environment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: Set new banner text
  purefa_banner:
    banner: "Banner over\ntwo lines"
    state: present
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Delete banner text
  purefa_banner:
    state: absent
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

Authors

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/purestorage/flasharray/purefa_banner_module.html