a10_service_group - Manage A10 Networks AX/SoftAX/Thunder/vThunder devices’ service groups.

New in version 1.8.

Synopsis

  • Manage SLB (Server Load Balancing) service-group objects on A10 Networks devices via aXAPIv2.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
host
 yes
Hostname or IP of the A10 Networks device.
partition
(added in 2.3)
 no
set active-partition
password
 yes
Password for the username account.
aliases: pass, pwd
servers
 no
A list of servers to add to the service group. Each list item should be a dictionary which specifies the server: and port:, but can also optionally specify the status:. See the examples below for details.
service_group
 yes
The SLB (Server Load Balancing) service-group name
aliases: service, pool, group
service_group_method
 no round-robin
  • round-robin
  • weighted-rr
  • least-connection
  • weighted-least-connection
  • service-least-connection
  • service-weighted-least-connection
  • fastest-response
  • least-request
  • round-robin-strict
  • src-ip-only-hash
  • src-ip-hash
The SLB service-group load balancing method, such as round-robin or weighted-rr.
aliases: method
service_group_protocol
 no tcp
  • tcp
  • udp
The SLB service-group protocol of TCP or UDP.
aliases: proto, protocol
username
 yes
An account with administrator privileges.
aliases: user, admin
validate_certs
 no yes
  • yes
  • no
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled devices using self-signed certificates.
write_config
(added in 2.2)
 no no
  • yes
  • no
If yes, any changes will cause a write of the running configuration to non-volatile memory. This will save all configuration changes, including those that may have been made manually or through other modules, so care should be taken when specifying yes.

Examples

# Create a new service-group
- a10_service_group:
    host: a10.mydomain.com
    username: myadmin
    password: mypassword
    partition: mypartition
    service_group: sg-80-tcp
    servers:
      - server: foo1.mydomain.com
        port: 8080
      - server: foo2.mydomain.com
        port: 8080
      - server: foo3.mydomain.com
        port: 8080
      - server: foo4.mydomain.com
        port: 8080
        status: disabled

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
content
the full info regarding the slb_service_group
 success string mynewservicegroup

Notes

Note

  • Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.
  • When a server doesn’t exist and is added to the service-group the server will be created.
  • Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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