purestorage.flasharray.purefa_network – Manage network interfaces in a Pure Storage FlashArray

Note

This plugin is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.11.0).

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 purestorage.flasharray.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_network.

New in version 1.0.0: of purestorage.flasharray

Synopsis

  • This module manages the physical and virtual network interfaces on a Pure Storage FlashArray.

  • To manage VLAN interfaces use the purefa_vlan module.

  • To manage network subnets use the purefa_subnet module.

  • To remove an IP address from a non-management port use 0.0.0.0/0

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7

  • purestorage >= 1.19

  • py-pure-client >= 1.6.0

  • netaddr

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

address

string

IPv4 or IPv6 address of interface in CIDR notation.

To remove an IP address from a non-management port use 0.0.0.0/0

api_token

string

FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.

fa_url

string

FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.

gateway

string

IPv4 or IPv6 address of interface gateway.

mtu

integer

MTU size of the interface. Range is 1280 to 9216.

Default: 1500

name

string / required

Interface name (physical or virtual).

state

string

State of existing interface (on/off).

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purestorage and py-pure-client Python libraries

  • Additional Python librarues may be required for specific modules.

  • You must set PUREFA_URL and PUREFA_API environment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: Configure and enable network interface ct0.eth8
  purefa_network:
    name: ct0.eth8
    gateway: 10.21.200.1
    address: "10.21.200.18/24"
    mtu: 9000
    state: present
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: c6033033-fe69-2515-a9e8-966bb7fe4b40

- name: Disable physical interface ct1.eth2
  purefa_network:
    name: ct1.eth2
    state: absent
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: c6033033-fe69-2515-a9e8-966bb7fe4b40

- name: Enable virtual network interface vir0
  purefa_network:
    name: vir0
    state: present
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: c6033033-fe69-2515-a9e8-966bb7fe4b40

- name: Remove an IP address from iSCSI interface ct0.eth4
  purefa_network:
    name: ct0.eth4
    address: 0.0.0.0/0
    gateway: 0.0.0.0
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: c6033033-fe69-2515-a9e8-966bb7fe4b40

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