community.network.a10_service_group – Manage A10 Networks AX/SoftAX/Thunder/vThunder devices’ service groups.
Note
This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 3.0.0).
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
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.a10_service_group
.
Synopsis
Manage SLB (Server Load Balancing) service-group objects on A10 Networks devices via aXAPIv2.
Parameters
Parameter |
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PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication. This file can also include the key as well, and if the key is included, |
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PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication. If |
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If Alias Choices:
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Credentials specified with url_username and url_password should be passed in HTTP Header. Choices:
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Hostname or IP of the A10 Networks device. |
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Header to identify as, generally appears in web server logs. Default: “ansible-httpget” |
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set active-partition |
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Password for the |
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A list of servers to add to the service group. Each list item should be a dictionary which specifies the |
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The SLB (Server Load Balancing) service-group name |
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The SLB service-group load balancing method, such as round-robin or weighted-rr. Choices:
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The SLB service-group protocol of TCP or UDP. Choices:
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If the specified service group should exists. Choices:
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HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP URL in the form (http|https|ftp)://[user[:pass]]@host.domain[:port]/path |
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The password for use in HTTP basic authentication. If the url_username parameter is not specified, the url_password parameter will not be used. |
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The username for use in HTTP basic authentication. This parameter can be used without url_password for sites that allow empty passwords |
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Use GSSAPI to perform the authentication, typically this is for Kerberos or Kerberos through Negotiate authentication. Requires the Python library gssapi to be installed. Credentials for GSSAPI can be specified with url_username/url_password or with the GSSAPI env var NTLM authentication is Choices:
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If Choices:
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An account with administrator privileges. |
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If Choices:
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If Choices:
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Notes
Note
Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.
When a server doesn’t exist and is added to the service-group the server will be created.
Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.
Examples
- name: Create a new service-group
community.network.a10_service_group:
host: a10.mydomain.com
username: myadmin
password: mypassword
partition: mypartition
service_group: sg-80-tcp
servers:
- server: foo1.mydomain.com
port: 8080
- server: foo2.mydomain.com
port: 8080
- server: foo3.mydomain.com
port: 8080
- server: foo4.mydomain.com
port: 8080
status: disabled
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key |
Description |
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the full info regarding the slb_service_group Returned: success Sample: “mynewservicegroup” |
Authors
Eric Chou (@ericchou1)
Mischa Peters (@mischapeters)