community.network.avi_networksecuritypolicy – Module for setup of NetworkSecurityPolicy Avi RESTful Object

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 2.1.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.network.

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

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • avisdk

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults 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
Default:
"16.4.4"
Avi API version of to use for Avi API and objects.
avi_api_patch_op
string
    Choices:
  • add
  • replace
  • delete
Patch operation to use when using avi_api_update_method as patch.
avi_api_update_method
string
    Choices:
  • put ←
  • patch
Default method for object update is HTTP PUT.
Setting to patch will override that behavior to use HTTP PATCH.
avi_credentials
dictionary
Avi Credentials dictionary which can be used in lieu of enumerating Avi Controller login details.
api_version
string
Default:
"16.4.4"
Avi controller version
controller
string
Avi controller IP or SQDN
csrftoken
string
Avi controller API csrftoken to reuse existing session with session id
password
string
Avi controller password
port
string
Avi controller port
session_id
string
Avi controller API session id to reuse existing session with csrftoken
tenant
string
Default:
"admin"
Avi controller tenant
tenant_uuid
string
Avi controller tenant UUID
timeout
string
Default:
300
Avi controller request timeout
token
string
Avi controller API token
username
string
Avi controller username
avi_disable_session_cache_as_fact
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
It disables avi session information to be cached as a fact.
cloud_config_cksum
string
Checksum of cloud configuration for network sec policy.
Internally set by cloud connector.
controller
string
Default:
""
IP address or hostname of the controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_CONTROLLER.
created_by
string
Creator name.
description
string
User defined description for the object.
name
string
Name of the object.
password
string
Default:
""
Password of Avi user in Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_PASSWORD.
rules
string
List of networksecurityrule.
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present ←
The state that should be applied on the entity.
tenant
string
Default:
"admin"
Name of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.
tenant_ref
string
It is a reference to an object of type tenant.
tenant_uuid
string
Default:
""
UUID of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.
url
string
Avi controller URL of the object.
username
string
Default:
""
Username used for accessing Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_USERNAME.
uuid
string
Unique object identifier of the object.

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Create a network security policy to block clients represented by ip group known_attackers
  community.network.avi_networksecuritypolicy:
    controller: '{{ controller }}'
    username: '{{ username }}'
    password: '{{ password }}'
    name: vs-gurutest-ns
    rules:
    - action: NETWORK_SECURITY_POLICY_ACTION_TYPE_DENY
      age: 0
      enable: true
      index: 1
      log: false
      match:
        client_ip:
          group_refs:
          - Demo:known_attackers
          match_criteria: IS_IN
      name: Rule 1
    tenant_ref: Demo

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
obj
dictionary
success, changed
NetworkSecurityPolicy (api/networksecuritypolicy) object


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