community.network.avi_healthmonitor module – Module for setup of HealthMonitor Avi RESTful Object

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 5.1.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.network. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.avi_healthmonitor.

Note

The community.network collection has been deprecated and will be removed from Ansible 12. See the discussion thread for more information.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 6.0.0

Why:

This collection and all content in it is unmaintained and deprecated.

Alternative:

Unknown.

Synopsis

Aliases: network.avi.avi_healthmonitor

Requirements

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

  • avisdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_context

dictionary

Avi API context that includes current session ID and CSRF Token.

This allows user to perform single login and re-use the session.

api_version

string

Avi API version of to use for Avi API and objects.

Default: "16.4.4"

avi_api_patch_op

string

Patch operation to use when using avi_api_update_method as patch.

Choices:

  • "add"

  • "replace"

  • "delete"

avi_api_update_method

string

Default method for object update is HTTP PUT.

Setting to patch will override that behavior to use HTTP PATCH.

Choices:

  • "put" ← (default)

  • "patch"

avi_credentials

dictionary

Avi Credentials dictionary which can be used in lieu of enumerating Avi Controller login details.

api_version

string

Avi controller version

Default: "16.4.4"

controller

string

Avi controller IP or SQDN

csrftoken

string

Avi controller API csrftoken to reuse existing session with session id

Default: ""

password

string

Avi controller password

port

string

Avi controller port

session_id

string

Avi controller API session id to reuse existing session with csrftoken

Default: ""

tenant

string

Avi controller tenant

Default: "admin"

tenant_uuid

string

Avi controller tenant UUID

Default: ""

timeout

string

Avi controller request timeout

Default: 300

token

string

Avi controller API token

Default: ""

username

string

Avi controller username

avi_disable_session_cache_as_fact

boolean

It disables avi session information to be cached as a fact.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

controller

string

IP address or hostname of the controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_CONTROLLER.

description

string

User defined description for the object.

dns_monitor

string

Healthmonitordns settings for healthmonitor.

external_monitor

string

Healthmonitorexternal settings for healthmonitor.

failed_checks

string

Number of continuous failed health checks before the server is marked down.

Allowed values are 1-50.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as 2.

http_monitor

string

Healthmonitorhttp settings for healthmonitor.

https_monitor

string

Healthmonitorhttp settings for healthmonitor.

is_federated

boolean

This field describes the object’s replication scope.

If the field is set to false, then the object is visible within the controller-cluster and its associated service-engines.

If the field is set to true, then the object is replicated across the federation.

Field introduced in 17.1.3.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as False.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

monitor_port

string

Use this port instead of the port defined for the server in the pool.

If the monitor succeeds to this port, the load balanced traffic will still be sent to the port of the server defined within the pool.

Allowed values are 1-65535.

Special values are 0 - ‘use server port’.

name

string / required

A user friendly name for this health monitor.

password

string

Password of Avi user in Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_PASSWORD.

radius_monitor

string

Health monitor for radius.

Field introduced in 18.2.3.

receive_timeout

string

A valid response from the server is expected within the receive timeout window.

This timeout must be less than the send interval.

If server status is regularly flapping up and down, consider increasing this value.

Allowed values are 1-2400.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as 4.

send_interval

string

Frequency, in seconds, that monitors are sent to a server.

Allowed values are 1-3600.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as 10.

sip_monitor

string

Health monitor for sip.

Field introduced in 17.2.8, 18.1.3, 18.2.1.

state

string

The state that should be applied on the entity.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

successful_checks

string

Number of continuous successful health checks before server is marked up.

Allowed values are 1-50.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as 2.

tcp_monitor

string

Healthmonitortcp settings for healthmonitor.

tenant

string

Name of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.

Default: "admin"

tenant_ref

string

It is a reference to an object of type tenant.

tenant_uuid

string

UUID of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.

Default: ""

type

string / required

Type of the health monitor.

Enum options - HEALTH_MONITOR_PING, HEALTH_MONITOR_TCP, HEALTH_MONITOR_HTTP, HEALTH_MONITOR_HTTPS, HEALTH_MONITOR_EXTERNAL, HEALTH_MONITOR_UDP,

HEALTH_MONITOR_DNS, HEALTH_MONITOR_GSLB, HEALTH_MONITOR_SIP, HEALTH_MONITOR_RADIUS.

udp_monitor

string

Healthmonitorudp settings for healthmonitor.

url

string

Avi controller URL of the object.

username

string

Username used for accessing Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_USERNAME.

uuid

string

Uuid of the health monitor.

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Create a HTTPS health monitor
  community.network.avi_healthmonitor:
    controller: 10.10.27.90
    username: admin
    password: AviNetworks123!
    https_monitor:
      http_request: HEAD / HTTP/1.0
      http_response_code:
        - HTTP_2XX
        - HTTP_3XX
    receive_timeout: 4
    failed_checks: 3
    send_interval: 10
    successful_checks: 3
    type: HEALTH_MONITOR_HTTPS
    name: MyWebsite-HTTPS

Return Values

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

Key

Description

obj

dictionary

HealthMonitor (api/healthmonitor) object

Returned: success, changed

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 6.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Gaurav Rastogi (@grastogi23)