vThunder devices’ server object.¶

New in version 1.8.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
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Synopsis ¶

Manage SLB (Server Load Balancer) server objects on A10 Networks devices via aXAPIv2.

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
client_cert		PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication. This file can also include the key as well, and if the key is included, `client_key` is not required.
client_key		PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication. If `client_cert` contains both the certificate and key, this option is not required.
force bool	Choices: no ← yes	If `yes` do not get a cached copy. aliases: thirsty
force_basic_auth bool	Choices: no ← yes	Credentials specified with url_username and url_password should be passed in HTTP Header.
host required		Hostname or IP of the A10 Networks device.
http_agent	Default: ansible-httpget	Header to identify as, generally appears in web server logs.
partition (added in 2.3)		set active-partition
password required		Password for the `username` account. aliases: pass, pwd
server_ip		The SLB server IPv4 address. aliases: ip, address
server_name required		The SLB (Server Load Balancer) server name. aliases: server
server_ports		A list of ports to create for the server. Each list item should be a dictionary which specifies the `port:` and `protocol:`, but can also optionally specify the `status:`. See the examples below for details. This parameter is required when `state` is `present`. aliases: port
server_status	Choices: enabled ← disabled	The SLB virtual server status. aliases: status
state	Choices: present ← absent	This is to specify the operation to create, update or remove SLB server.
url		HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP URL in the form (http\|https\|ftp)://[user[:pass]]@host.domain[:port]/path
url_password		The password for use in HTTP basic authentication. If the url_username parameter is not specified, the url_password parameter will not be used.
url_username		The username for use in HTTP basic authentication. This parameter can be used without url_password for sites that allow empty passwords
use_proxy bool	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.
username required		An account with administrator privileges. aliases: user, admin
validate_certs bool (added in 2.3)	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled devices using self-signed certificates.
write_config bool (added in 2.2)	Choices: no ← yes	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`.

Notes ¶

Note

Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.
Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1

Examples ¶

# Create a new server
- a10_server:
    host: a10.mydomain.com
    username: myadmin
    password: mypassword
    partition: mypartition
    server: test
    server_ip: 1.1.1.100
    server_ports:
      - port_num: 8080
        protocol: tcp
      - port_num: 8443
        protocol: TCP

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
content string	success	the full info regarding the slb_server Sample: mynewserver

Status ¶

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

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 ¶

Eric Chou (@ericchou) 2016, Mischa Peters (@mischapeters) 2014

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