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bigip_facts - Collect facts from F5 BIG-IP devices

New in version 1.6.

Synopsis

  • Collect facts from F5 BIG-IP devices via iControl SOAP API

Requirements

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

  • bigsuds
  • f5-sdk >= 3.0.9

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
filter
Shell-style glob matching string used to filter fact keys. Not applicable for software, provision, and system_info fact categories.
include
required
    Choices:
  • address_class
  • certificate
  • client_ssl_profile
  • device
  • device_group
  • interface
  • key
  • node
  • pool
  • provision
  • rule
  • self_ip
  • software
  • system_info
  • traffic_group
  • trunk
  • virtual_address
  • virtual_server
  • vlan
Fact category or list of categories to collect
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
server
required
The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER 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.
 
server_port
Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set.
 
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
 
validate_certs
    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.
 
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.
session
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
BIG-IP session support; may be useful to avoid concurrency issues in certain circumstances.
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
(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 software version >= 11.4
  • F5 developed module ‘bigsuds’ required (see http://devcentral.f5.com)
  • Best run as a local_action in your playbook
  • Tested with manager and above account privilege level
  • provision facts were added in 2.2
  • 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: Collect BIG-IP facts
  bigip_facts:
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    password: secret
    include: interface,vlan
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

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

Author

  • Matt Hite (@mhite)
  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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