bigip_log_destination – Manages log destinations on a BIG-IP¶

New in version 2.6.

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Synopsis ¶

Manages log destinations on a BIG-IP.

Parameters ¶

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
address string added in 2.8			Specifies the IP address that will receive messages from the specified local Log Destination. This parameter is only available when `type` is `management-port`. When creating a new log destination and `type` is `management-port`, this parameter is required.
description string			The description of the log destination.
distribution string added in 2.8		Choices: adaptive balanced replicated	Specifies the distribution method used by the Remote High Speed Log destination to send messages to pool members. When `adaptive`, connections to pool members will be added as required to provide enough logging bandwidth. This can have the undesirable effect of logs accumulating on only one pool member when it provides sufficient logging bandwidth on its own. When `balanced`, sends each successive log to a new pool member, balancing the logs among them according to the pool's load balancing method. When `replicated`, replicates each log to all pool members, for redundancy. When creating a new log destination and `type` is `remote-high-speed-log`, if this parameter is not specified, the default is `adaptive`.
forward_to string added in 2.8			When `type` is `remote-syslog`, specifies the management port log destination, which will be used to forward the logs to a single log server, or a remote high-speed log destination, which will be used to forward the logs to a pool of remote log servers. When `type` is `splunk` or `arcsight`, specifies the log destination to which logs are forwarded. This log destination may be a management port destination, a remote high-speed log destination, or a remote Syslog destination which is configured to send logs to an ArcSight or Splunk server. When creating a new log destination and `type` is `remote-syslog`, `splunk`, or `arcsight`, this parameter is required.
name string / required			Specifies the name of the log destination.
partition string		Default: "Common"	Device partition to manage resources on.
password string / 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
pool string added in 2.8			When `type` is `remote-high-speed-log`, specifies the existing pool of remote high-speed log servers where logs will be sent. When `type` is `ipfix`, specifies the existing LTM pool of remote IPFIX collectors. Any BIG-IP application that uses this log destination sends its IP-traffic logs to this pool of collectors. When creating a new destination and `type` is `remote-high-speed-log` or `ipfix`, this parameter is required.
pool_settings dictionary			This parameter is only available when `type` is `remote-high-speed-log`. Deprecated. Use the equivalent top-level parameters instead.
	distribution string	Choices: adaptive balanced replicated	Specifies the distribution method used by the Remote High Speed Log destination to send messages to pool members. When `adaptive`, connections to pool members will be added as required to provide enough logging bandwidth. This can have the undesirable effect of logs accumulating on only one pool member when it provides sufficient logging bandwidth on its own. When `balanced`, sends each successive log to a new pool member, balancing the logs among them according to the pool's load balancing method. When `replicated`, replicates each log to all pool members, for redundancy. When creating a new log destination (and `type` is `remote-high-speed-log`), if this parameter is not specified, the default is `adaptive`.
	pool string		Specifies the existing pool of remote high-speed log servers where logs will be sent. When creating a new destination (and `type` is `remote-high-speed-log`), this parameter is required.
	protocol string	Choices: tcp udp	Specifies the protocol for the system to use to send logs to the pool of remote high-speed log servers, where the logs are stored. When creating a new log destination (and `type` is `remote-high-speed-log`), if this parameter is not specified, the default is `tcp`.
port integer added in 2.8			Specifies the port of the IP address that will receive messages from the specified local Log Destination. This parameter is only available when `type` is `management-port`. When creating a new log destination and `type` is `management-port`, this parameter is required.
protocol string added in 2.8		Choices: tcp udp ipfix netflow-9	When `type` is `remote-high-speed-log`, specifies the protocol for the system to use to send logs to the pool of remote high-speed log servers, where the logs are stored. When `type` is `ipfix`, can be IPFIX or Netflow v9, depending on the type of collectors you have in the pool that you specify. When `type` is `management-port`, specifies the protocol used to send messages to the specified location. When `type` is `management-port`, only `tcp` and `udp` are valid values.
provider dictionary added in 2.5			A dict object containing connection details.
	password string / 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
	server string / required		The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER`.
	server_port integer	Default: 443	The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER_PORT`.
	ssh_keyfile path		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 integer	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.
	transport string	Choices: cli rest ←	Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
	user string / 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 boolean	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`.
server string / required			The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER`.
server_port integer added in 2.2		Default: 443	The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER_PORT`.
server_ssl_profile string added in 2.8			If the `transport_profile` is a TCP profile, you can use this field to choose a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) profile for sending logs to the IPFIX collectors. An SSL server profile defines how to communicate securely over SSL or Transport Layer Security (TLS). This parameter is only available when `type` is `ipfix`.
state string		Choices: present ← absent	When `present`, ensures that the resource exists. When `absent`, ensures the resource is removed.
syslog_format string added in 2.8		Choices: bsd-syslog syslog legacy-bigip rfc5424 rfc3164	Specifies the method to use to format the logs associated with the remote Syslog log destination. When creating a new log destination (and `type` is `remote-syslog`), if this parameter is not specified, the default is `bsd-syslog`. The `syslog` and `rfc5424` choices are two ways of saying the same thing. The `bsd-syslog` and `rfc3164` choices are two ways of saying the same thing.
syslog_settings dictionary			This parameter is only available when `type` is `remote-syslog`. Deprecated. Use the equivalent top-level parameters instead.
	forward_to string		Specifies the management port log destination, which will be used to forward the logs to a single log server, or a remote high-speed log destination, which will be used to forward the logs to a pool of remote log servers. When creating a new log destination (and `type` is `remote-syslog`), this parameter is required.
	syslog_format string	Choices: bsd-syslog syslog legacy-bigip rfc5424 rfc3164	Specifies the method to use to format the logs associated with the remote Syslog log destination. When creating a new log destination (and `type` is `remote-syslog`), if this parameter is not specified, the default is `bsd-syslog`. The `syslog` and `rfc5424` choices are two ways of saying the same thing. The `bsd-syslog` and `rfc3164` choices are two ways of saying the same thing.
template_delete_delay integer added in 2.8			Enter the time (in seconds) that the BIG-IP device should pause between deleting an obsolete IPFIX template and reusing its template ID. This feature is useful for systems where you use iRules to create customized IPFIX templates.
template_retransmit_interval integer added in 2.8			Enter the time (in seconds) between each transmission of IPFIX templates to the pool of IPFIX collectors. The logging destination periodically retransmits all of its IPFIX templates at the interval you set in this field. These retransmissions are helpful for UDP, a lossy transport mechanism. This parameter is only available when `type` is `ipfix`.
transport_profile string added in 2.8			Is a transport profile based on either TCP or UDP. This profile defines the TCP or UDP options used to send IP-traffic logs to the pool of collectors. This parameter is only available when `type` is `ipfix`.
type string / required		Choices: remote-high-speed-log remote-syslog arcsight splunk management-port ipfix	Specifies the type of log destination. Once created, this parameter cannot be changed.
user string / 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 boolean 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

For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
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: Create a high-speed logging destination
  bigip_log_destination:
    name: foo
    type: remote-high-speed-log
    pool: my-ltm-pool
    provider:
      password: secret
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create a remote-syslog logging destination
  bigip_log_destination:
    name: foo
    type: remote-syslog
    syslog_format: rfc5424
    forward_to: my-destination
    provider:
      password: secret
      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
address string	changed	The new Address value. Sample: 1.2.3.2
distribution string	changed	The new Distribution Method value. Sample: balanced
forward_to string	changed	The new Forward To value. Sample: /Common/dest1
pool string	changed	The new Pool value. Sample: /Common/pool1
port integer	changed	The new Port value. Sample: 2020
protocol string	changed	The new Protocol value. Sample: tcp
server_ssl_profile string	changed	The new Server SSL Profile value. Sample: /Common/serverssl
syslog_format string	changed	The new Syslog format value. Sample: syslog
template_delete_delay integer	changed	The new Template Delete Delay value. Sample: 20
template_retransmit_interval integer	changed	The new Template Retransmit Interval value. Sample: 200
transport_profile string	changed	The new Transport Profile value. Sample: /Common/tcp

Status ¶

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

Authors¶

Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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bigip_log_destination – Manages log destinations on a BIG-IP¶

Synopsis¶

Parameters¶

Notes¶

Examples¶

Return Values¶

Status¶