bigip_device_sshd - Manage the SSHD settings of a BIG-IP

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis

  • Manage the SSHD settings of a BIG-IP.

Requirements

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

  • f5-sdk >= 3.0.9

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
allow
Specifies, if you have enabled SSH access, the IP address or address range for other systems that can use SSH to communicate with this system.
To specify all addresses, use the value all.
IP address can be specified, such as 172.27.1.10.
IP rangees can be specified, such as 172.27.*.* or 172.27.0.0/255.255.0.0.
banner
    Choices:
  • enabled
  • disabled
Whether to enable the banner or not.
banner_text
Specifies the text to include on the pre-login banner that displays when a user attempts to login to the system using SSH.
inactivity_timeout
Specifies the number of seconds before inactivity causes an SSH session to log out.
log_level
    Choices:
  • debug
  • debug1
  • debug2
  • debug3
  • error
  • fatal
  • info
  • quiet
  • verbose
Specifies the minimum SSHD message level to include in the system log.
login
    Choices:
  • enabled
  • disabled
Specifies, when checked enabled, that the system accepts SSH communications.
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
port
Port that you want the SSH daemon to run on.
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.
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

  • Requires BIG-IP version 12.0.0 or greater
  • 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: Set the banner for the SSHD service from a string
  bigip_device_sshd:
    banner: enabled
    banner_text: banner text goes here
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set the banner for the SSHD service from a file
  bigip_device_sshd:
    banner: enabled
    banner_text: "{{ lookup('file', '/path/to/file') }}"
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set the SSHD service to run on port 2222
  bigip_device_sshd:
    password: secret
    port: 2222
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
allow
string
changed
Specifies, if you have enabled SSH access, the IP address or address range for other systems that can use SSH to communicate with this system.

Sample:
192.0.2.*
banner
string
changed
Whether the banner is enabled or not.

Sample:
True
banner_text
string
changed and success
Specifies the text included on the pre-login banner that displays when a user attempts to login to the system using SSH.

Sample:
This is a corporate device. Connecting to it without...
inactivity_timeout
int
changed
The number of seconds before inactivity causes an SSH session to log out.

Sample:
10
log_level
string
changed
The minimum SSHD message level to include in the system log.

Sample:
debug
login
bool
changed
Specifies that the system accepts SSH communications or not.

Sample:
True
port
int
changed
Port that you want the SSH daemon to run on.

Sample:
22


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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