community.vmware.vmware_vspan_session – Create or remove a Port Mirroring session.¶
Note
This plugin is part of the community.vmware collection (version 1.9.0).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vmware_vspan_session
.
Synopsis¶
This module can be used to create, delete or edit different kind of port mirroring sessions.
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python > = 2.6
PyVmomi
Parameters¶
Examples¶
- name: Create distributed mirroring session.
community.vmware.vmware_vspan_session:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
switch_name: dvSwitch
state: present
name: Basic Session
enabled: True
description: "Example description"
source_port_transmitted: 817
source_port_received: 817
destination_port: 815
delegate_to: localhost
- name: Create remote destination mirroring session.
community.vmware.vmware_vspan_session:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
switch_name: dvSwitch
state: present
name: Remote Session
enabled: True
description: "Example description"
source_port_received: 105
destination_port: 815
session_type: "remoteMirrorDest"
delegate_to: localhost
- name: Create remote destination mirroring session.
community.vmware.vmware_vspan_session:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
switch_name: dvSwitch
state: absent
name: Remote Session
delegate_to: localhost
Authors¶
Peter Gyorgy (@gyorgypeter)