community.network.netscaler_servicegroup module – Manage service group configuration in Netscaler

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 4.0.2).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

Synopsis

  • Manage service group configuration in Netscaler.

  • This module is intended to run either on the ansible control node or a bastion (jumpserver) with access to the actual netscaler instance.

Requirements

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

  • nitro python sdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

appflowlog

string

Enable logging of AppFlow information for the specified service group.

Choices:

  • "enabled"

  • "disabled"

autoscale

string

Auto scale option for a servicegroup.

Choices:

  • "DISABLED"

  • "DNS"

  • "POLICY"

cacheable

boolean

Use the transparent cache redirection virtual server to forward the request to the cache server.

Note: Do not set this parameter if you set the Cache Type.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

cachetype

string

Cache type supported by the cache server.

Choices:

  • "TRANSPARENT"

  • "REVERSE"

  • "FORWARD"

cip

string

Insert the Client IP header in requests forwarded to the service.

Choices:

  • "enabled"

  • "disabled"

cipheader

string

Name of the HTTP header whose value must be set to the IP address of the client. Used with the Client IP parameter. If client IP insertion is enabled, and the client IP header is not specified, the value of Client IP Header parameter or the value set by the set ns config command is used as client’s IP header name.

Minimum length = 1

cka

boolean

Enable client keep-alive for the service group.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

clttimeout

string

Time, in seconds, after which to terminate an idle client connection.

Minimum value = 0

Maximum value = 31536000

cmp

boolean

Enable compression for the specified service.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

comment

string

Any information about the service group.

disabled

boolean

When set to yes the service group state will be set to DISABLED.

When set to no the service group state will be set to ENABLED.

Note that due to limitations of the underlying NITRO API a disabled state change alone does not cause the module result to report a changed status.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

downstateflush

string

Flush all active transactions associated with all the services in the service group whose state transitions from UP to DOWN. Do not enable this option for applications that must complete their transactions.

Choices:

  • "enabled"

  • "disabled"

graceful

boolean

Wait for all existing connections to the service to terminate before shutting down the service.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

healthmonitor

boolean

Monitor the health of this service. Available settings function as follows:

yes - Send probes to check the health of the service.

no - Do not send probes to check the health of the service. With the NO option, the appliance shows the service as UP at all times.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

httpprofilename

string

Name of the HTTP profile that contains HTTP configuration settings for the service group.

Minimum length = 1

Maximum length = 127

maxbandwidth

string

Maximum bandwidth, in Kbps, allocated for all the services in the service group.

Minimum value = 0

Maximum value = 4294967287

maxclient

string

Maximum number of simultaneous open connections for the service group.

Minimum value = 0

Maximum value = 4294967294

maxreq

string

Maximum number of requests that can be sent on a persistent connection to the service group.

Note: Connection requests beyond this value are rejected.

Minimum value = 0

Maximum value = 65535

memberport

string

member port.

monitorbindings

string

A list of monitornames to bind to this service

Note that the monitors must have already been setup possibly using the community.network.netscaler_lb_monitor module or some other method

monitorname

string

The monitor name to bind to this servicegroup.

weight

string

Weight to assign to the binding between the monitor and servicegroup.

monthreshold

string

Minimum sum of weights of the monitors that are bound to this service. Used to determine whether to mark a service as UP or DOWN.

Minimum value = 0

Maximum value = 65535

netprofile

string

Network profile for the service group.

Minimum length = 1

Maximum length = 127

nitro_pass

string / required

The password with which to authenticate to the netscaler node.

nitro_protocol

string

Which protocol to use when accessing the nitro API objects.

Choices:

  • "http" ← (default)

  • "https"

nitro_timeout

float

Time in seconds until a timeout error is thrown when establishing a new session with Netscaler

Default: 310.0

nitro_user

string / required

The username with which to authenticate to the netscaler node.

nsip

string / required

The ip address of the netscaler appliance where the nitro API calls will be made.

The port can be specified with the colon (:). E.g. 192.168.1.1:555.

pathmonitor

boolean

Path monitoring for clustering.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

pathmonitorindv

boolean

Individual Path monitoring decisions.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

rtspsessionidremap

boolean

Enable RTSP session ID mapping for the service group.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

save_config

boolean

If yes the module will save the configuration on the netscaler node if it makes any changes.

The module will not save the configuration on the netscaler node if it made no changes.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

servicegroupname

string

Name of the service group. Must begin with an ASCII alphabetic or underscore _ character, and must contain only ASCII alphanumeric, underscore _, hash #, period ., space , colon :, at @, equals =, and hyphen - characters. Can be changed after the name is created.

Minimum length = 1

servicemembers

string

A list of dictionaries describing each service member of the service group.

customserverid

string

The identifier for this IP:Port pair.

Used when the persistency type is set to Custom Server ID.

hashid

string

The hash identifier for the service.

This must be unique for each service.

This parameter is used by hash based load balancing methods.

Minimum value = 1

ip

string

IP address of the service. Must not overlap with an existing server entity defined by name.

port

string

Server port number.

Range 1 - 65535

* in CLI is represented as 65535 in NITRO API

serverid

string

The identifier for the service.

This is used when the persistency type is set to Custom Server ID.

servername

string

Name of the server to which to bind the service group.

The server must already be configured as a named server.

Minimum length = 1

state

string

Initial state of the service after binding.

Choices:

  • "enabled"

  • "disabled"

weight

string

Weight to assign to the servers in the service group.

Specifies the capacity of the servers relative to the other servers in the load balancing configuration.

The higher the weight, the higher the percentage of requests sent to the service.

Minimum value = 1

Maximum value = 100

servicetype

string

Protocol used to exchange data with the service.

Choices:

  • "HTTP"

  • "FTP"

  • "TCP"

  • "UDP"

  • "SSL"

  • "SSL_BRIDGE"

  • "SSL_TCP"

  • "DTLS"

  • "NNTP"

  • "RPCSVR"

  • "DNS"

  • "ADNS"

  • "SNMP"

  • "RTSP"

  • "DHCPRA"

  • "ANY"

  • "SIP_UDP"

  • "SIP_TCP"

  • "SIP_SSL"

  • "DNS_TCP"

  • "ADNS_TCP"

  • "MYSQL"

  • "MSSQL"

  • "ORACLE"

  • "RADIUS"

  • "RADIUSListener"

  • "RDP"

  • "DIAMETER"

  • "SSL_DIAMETER"

  • "TFTP"

  • "SMPP"

  • "PPTP"

  • "GRE"

  • "SYSLOGTCP"

  • "SYSLOGUDP"

  • "FIX"

  • "SSL_FIX"

sp

boolean

Enable surge protection for the service group.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

state

string

The state of the resource being configured by the module on the netscaler node.

When present the resource will be created if needed and configured according to the module’s parameters.

When absent the resource will be deleted from the netscaler node.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

svrtimeout

string

Time, in seconds, after which to terminate an idle server connection.

Minimum value = 0

Maximum value = 31536000

tcpb

boolean

Enable TCP buffering for the service group.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

tcpprofilename

string

Name of the TCP profile that contains TCP configuration settings for the service group.

Minimum length = 1

Maximum length = 127

useproxyport

boolean

Use the proxy port as the source port when initiating connections with the server. With the NO setting, the client-side connection port is used as the source port for the server-side connection.

Note: This parameter is available only when the Use Source IP usip parameter is set to yes.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

usip

boolean

Use client’s IP address as the source IP address when initiating connection to the server. With the NO setting, which is the default, a mapped IP (MIP) address or subnet IP (SNIP) address is used as the source IP address to initiate server side connections.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

validate_certs

boolean

If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

Examples

# The LB Monitors monitor-1 and monitor-2 must already exist
# Service members defined by C(ip) must not redefine an existing server's ip address.
# Service members defined by C(servername) must already exist.

- name: Setup http service with ip members
  delegate_to: localhost
  community.network.netscaler_servicegroup:
    nsip: 172.18.0.2
    nitro_user: nsroot
    nitro_pass: nsroot

    state: present

    servicegroupname: service-group-1
    servicetype: HTTP
    servicemembers:
      - ip: 10.78.78.78
        port: 80
        weight: 50
      - ip: 10.79.79.79
        port: 80
        weight: 40
      - servername: server-1
        port: 80
        weight: 10

    monitorbindings:
      - monitorname: monitor-1
        weight: 50
      - monitorname: monitor-2
        weight: 50

Return Values

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

Key

Description

diff

dictionary

List of differences between the actual configured object and the configuration specified in the module

Returned: failure

Sample: {"clttimeout": "difference. ours: (float) 10.0 other: (float) 20.0"}

loglines

list / elements=string

list of logged messages by the module

Returned: always

Sample: ["message 1", "message 2"]

msg

string

Message detailing the failure reason

Returned: failure

Sample: "Action does not exist"

Authors

  • George Nikolopoulos (@giorgos-nikolopoulos)