netapp.ontap.na_ontap_fpolicy_policy module – NetApp ONTAP - Create, delete or modify an FPolicy policy.

Note

This module is part of the netapp.ontap collection (version 22.8.3).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: netapp.ontap.na_ontap_fpolicy_policy.

New in netapp.ontap 21.3.0

Synopsis

  • Create, delete or modify an FPolicy policy. Fpolicy scope must exist before running this module.

  • FPolicy is a file access notification framework that enables an administrator to monitor file and directory access in storage configured for CIFS and NFS.

Requirements

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

  • Ansible 2.9 or later - 2.12 or later is recommended.

  • Python3 - 3.9 or later is recommended.

  • When using ZAPI, netapp-lib 2018.11.13 or later (install using ‘pip install netapp-lib’), netapp-lib 2020.3.12 is strongly recommended as it provides better error reporting for connection issues

  • a physical or virtual clustered Data ONTAP system, the modules support Data ONTAP 9.1 and onward, REST support requires ONTAP 9.6 or later

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

allow_privileged_access

boolean

Specifies if privileged access should be given to FPolicy servers registered for the policy.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

cert_filepath

string

added in netapp.ontap 20.6.0

path to SSL client cert file (.pem).

not supported with python 2.6.

engine

string

Name of the Engine. External engines must be created prior to running this task.

events

list / elements=string / required

Events for file access monitoring.

feature_flags

dictionary

added in netapp.ontap 20.5.0

Enable or disable a new feature.

This can be used to enable an experimental feature or disable a new feature that breaks backward compatibility.

Supported keys and values are subject to change without notice. Unknown keys are ignored.

force_ontap_version

string

added in netapp.ontap 21.23.0

Override the cluster ONTAP version when using REST.

The behavior is undefined if the version does not match the target cluster.

This is provided as a work-around when the cluster version cannot be read because of permission issues. See https://github.com/ansible-collections/netapp.ontap/wiki/Known-issues.

This should be in the form 9.10 or 9.10.1 with each element being an integer number.

When use_rest is set to auto, this may force a switch to ZAPI based on the version and platform capabilities.

Ignored with ZAPI.

hostname

string / required

The hostname or IP address of the ONTAP instance.

http_port

integer

Override the default port (80 or 443) with this port

https

boolean

Enable and disable https.

Ignored when using REST as only https is supported.

Ignored when using SSL certificate authentication as it requires SSL.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

is_mandatory

boolean

Specifies the action to take on a file access event in the case when all primary and secondary servers are down or no response is received from the

FPolicy servers within a given timeout period. When True, file access events will be denied under these circumstances

Choices:

  • false

  • true

is_passthrough_read_enabled

boolean

Specifies if passthrough-read should be allowed to FPolicy servers registered for the policy.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

key_filepath

string

added in netapp.ontap 20.6.0

path to SSL client key file.

name

string / required

Name of the policy.

ontapi

integer

The ontap api version to use

password

aliases: pass

string

Password for the specified user.

privileged_user_name

string

User name for privileged access.

state

string

Whether the fPolicy policy should exist or not

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

use_rest

string

Whether to use REST or ZAPI.

always – will always use the REST API if the module supports REST. A warning is issued if the module does not support REST. An error is issued if a module option is not supported in REST.

never – will always use ZAPI if the module supports ZAPI. An error may be issued if a REST option is not supported in ZAPI.

auto – will try to use the REST API if the module supports REST and modules options are supported. Reverts to ZAPI otherwise.

Default: "auto"

username

aliases: user

string

This can be a Cluster-scoped or SVM-scoped account, depending on whether a Cluster-level or SVM-level API is required.

For more information, please read the documentation https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/nmsdk/9.4/.

Two authentication methods are supported

  1. basic authentication, using username and password,

  2. SSL certificate authentication, using a ssl client cert file, and optionally a private key file.

To use a certificate, the certificate must have been installed in the ONTAP cluster, and cert authentication must have been enabled.

validate_certs

boolean

If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to False used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

vserver

string / required

the name of the vserver to create the policy on

Notes

Note

  • The modules prefixed with na_ontap are built to support the ONTAP storage platform.

  • https is enabled by default and recommended. To enable http on the cluster you must run the following commands ‘set -privilege advanced;’ ‘system services web modify -http-enabled true;’

Examples

- name: Create FPolicy policy
  na_ontap_fpolicy_policy:
    state: present
    vserver: svm1
    name: fpolicy_policy
    events: fcpolicy_event
    engine: fpolicy_ext_engine
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"

- name: Modify FPolicy policy
  na_ontap_fpolicy_policy:
    state: present
    vserver: svm1
    name: fpolicy_policy
    events: fcpolicy_event
    is_mandatory: false
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"

- name: Delete FPolicy policy
  na_ontap_fpolicy_policy:
    state: absent
    vserver: svm1
    name: fpolicy_policy
    events: fcpolicy_event
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"

Authors

  • NetApp Ansible Team (@carchi8py)