bigip_device_connectivity - Manages device IP configuration settings for HA on a BIG-IP

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

  • Manages device IP configuration settings for HA on a BIG-IP. Each BIG-IP device has synchronization and failover connectivity information (IP addresses) that you define as part of HA pairing or clustering. This module allows you to configure that information.

Requirements

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

  • f5-sdk >= 3.0.9

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
config_sync_ip
Local IP address that the system uses for ConfigSync operations.
failover_multicast
bool
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
When yes, ensures that the Failover Multicast configuration is enabled and if no further multicast configuration is provided, ensures that multicast_interface, multicast_address and multicast_port are the defaults specified in each option's description. When no, ensures that Failover Multicast configuration is disabled.
mirror_primary_address
Specifies the primary IP address for the system to use to mirror connections.
mirror_secondary_address
Specifies the secondary IP address for the system to use to mirror connections.
multicast_address
IP address for the system to send multicast messages associated with failover. When failover_multicast is yes and this option is not provided, a default of 224.0.0.245 will be used.
multicast_interface
Interface over which the system sends multicast messages associated with failover. When failover_multicast is yes and this option is not provided, a default of eth0 will be used.
multicast_port
Port for the system to send multicast messages associated with failover. When failover_multicast is yes and this option is not provided, a default of 62960 will be used. This value must be between 0 and 65535.
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
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
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
    Choices:
  • rest
  • cli ←
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.
unicast_failover
Desired addresses to use for failover operations. Options address and port are supported with dictionary structure where address is the local IP address that the system uses for failover operations. Port specifies the port that the system uses for failover operations. If port is not specified, the default value 1026 will be used. If you are specifying the (recommended) management IP address, use 'management-ip' in the address field.
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)
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
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

  • This module is primarily used as a component of configuring HA pairs of BIG-IP devices.
  • Requires BIG-IP >= 12.0.0
  • 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: Configure device connectivity for standard HA pair
  bigip_device_connectivity:
    config_sync_ip: 10.1.30.1
    mirror_primary_address: 10.1.30.1
    unicast_failover:
      - address: management-ip
      - address: 10.1.30.1
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
changed
bool
 always
Denotes if the F5 configuration was updated.
config_sync_ip
string
 changed
The new value of the config_sync_ip setting.

Sample:
10.1.1.1
failover_multicast
bool
 changed
Whether a failover multicast attribute has been changed or not.
mirror_primary_address
string
 changed
The new value of the mirror_primary_address setting.

Sample:
10.1.1.2
mirror_secondary_address
string
 changed
The new value of the mirror_secondary_address setting.

Sample:
10.1.1.3
multicast_address
string
 changed
The new value of the multicast_address setting.

Sample:
224.0.0.245
multicast_interface
string
 changed
The new value of the multicast_interface setting.

Sample:
eth0
multicast_port
string
 changed
The new value of the multicast_port setting.

Sample:
1026
unicast_failover
list
 changed
The new value of the unicast_failover setting.

Sample:
[{'address': '10.1.1.2', 'port': 1026}]


Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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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