bigip_device_httpd - Manage HTTPD related settings on BIG-IP¶

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Manages HTTPD related settings on the BIG-IP. These settings are interesting to change when you want to set GUI timeouts and other TMUI related settings.

Requirements ¶

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

f5-sdk >= 3.0.16
requests

Parameters ¶

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
allow			Specifies, if you have enabled HTTPD access, the IP address or address range for other systems that can 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.
auth_name			Sets the BIG-IP authentication realm name.
auth_pam_dashboard_timeout bool		Choices: no yes	Sets whether or not the BIG-IP dashboard will timeout.
auth_pam_idle_timeout			Sets the GUI timeout for automatic logout, in seconds.
auth_pam_validate_ip bool		Choices: no yes	Sets the authPamValidateIp setting.
fast_cgi_timeout			Sets the timeout of FastCGI.
hostname_lookup bool		Choices: no yes	Sets whether or not to display the hostname, if possible.
log_level		Choices: alert crit debug emerg error info notice warn	Sets the minimum httpd log level.
max_clients			Sets the maximum number of clients that can connect to the GUI at once.
password required			The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_PASSWORD`. aliases: pass, pwd
provider (added in 2.5)		Default: None	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. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE`.
	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 may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER`.
	user required		The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_USER`.
	server_port	Default: 443	The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER_PORT`.
	password required		The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_PASSWORD`. aliases: pass, pwd
	validate_certs bool	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_VALIDATE_CERTS`.
	transport required	Choices: rest cli ←	Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
redirect_http_to_https bool		Choices: no yes	Whether or not to redirect http requests to the GUI to https.
server required			The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER`.
server_port (added in 2.2)		Default: 443	The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER_PORT`.
ssl_cipher_suite (added in 2.6)			Specifies the ciphers that the system uses. The values in the suite are separated by colons (:). Can be specified in either a string or list form. The list form is the recommended way to provide the cipher suite. See examples for usage. Use the value `default` to set the cipher suite to the system default. This value is equivalent to specifying a list of `ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA, ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384,AES128-GCM-SHA256, AES256-GCM-SHA384,AES128-SHA,AES256-SHA,AES128-SHA256,AES256-SHA256, ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA,ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA,DES-CBC3-SHA`.
ssl_port			The HTTPS port to listen on.
ssl_protocols (added in 2.6)			The list of SSL protocols to accept on the management console. A space-separated list of tokens in the format accepted by the Apache mod_ssl SSLProtocol directive. Can be specified in either a string or list form. The list form is the recommended way to provide the cipher suite. See examples for usage. Use the value `default` to set the SSL protocols to the system default. This value is equivalent to specifying a list of `all,-SSLv2,-SSLv3`.
user required			The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_USER`.
validate_certs bool (added in 2.0)		Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_VALIDATE_CERTS`.

Notes ¶

Note

Requires the requests Python package on the host. This is as easy as pip install requests.
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.
Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.
The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.

Examples ¶

- name: Set the BIG-IP authentication realm name
  bigip_device_httpd:
    auth_name: BIG-IP
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set the auth pam timeout to 3600 seconds
  bigip_device_httpd:
    auth_pam_idle_timeout: 1200
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set the validate IP settings
  bigip_device_httpd:
    auth_pam_validate_ip: on
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set SSL cipher suite by list
  bigip_device_httpd:
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    ssl_cipher_suite:
      - ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
      - ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
      - ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
      - AES256-SHA256
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set SSL cipher suite by string
  bigip_device_httpd:
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    ssl_cipher_suite: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA256
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set SSL protocols by list
  bigip_device_httpd:
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    ssl_protocols:
      - all
      - -SSLv2
      - -SSLv3
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set SSL protocols by string
  bigip_device_httpd:
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    ssl_cipher_suite: all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
auth_name string	changed	The new authentication realm name. Sample: foo
auth_pam_dashboard_timeout bool	changed	Whether or not the BIG-IP dashboard will timeout.
auth_pam_idle_timeout string	changed	The new number of seconds for GUI timeout. Sample: 1200
auth_pam_validate_ip bool	changed	The new authPamValidateIp setting. Sample: True
fast_cgi_timeout int	changed	The new timeout of FastCGI. Sample: 500
hostname_lookup bool	changed	Whether or not to display the hostname, if possible. Sample: True
log_level string	changed	The new minimum httpd log level. Sample: crit
max_clients int	changed	The new maximum number of clients that can connect to the GUI at once. Sample: 20
redirect_http_to_https bool	changed	Whether or not to redirect http requests to the GUI to https. Sample: True
ssl_cipher_suite string	changed	The new ciphers that the system uses. Sample: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
ssl_port int	changed	The new HTTPS port to listen on. Sample: 10443
ssl_protocols string	changed	The new list of SSL protocols to accept on the management console. Sample: all -SSLv2 -SSLv3

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 certified which means that it is maintained by an Ansible Partner. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by an Ansible Partner, see here.

Author ¶

Joe Reifel (@JoeReifel)
Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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