purestorage.flashblade.purefb_pingtrace module – Employ the internal FlashBlade ping and trace mechanisms

Note

This module is part of the purestorage.flashblade collection (version 1.19.2).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flashblade.purefb_pingtrace.

New in purestorage.flashblade 1.11.0

Synopsis

  • Ping or trace a destination

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.9

  • py-pure-client

  • purity_fb >= 1.12.2

  • netaddr

  • datetime

  • pytz

  • distro

  • pycountry

  • urllib3

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

action

string

Which action is required, ping or trace

Choices:

  • "ping" ← (default)

  • "trace"

api_token

string

FlashBlade API token for admin privileged user.

component

string

Used by ping and trace to specify where to run the operation.

Valid values are controllers and blades from hardware list.

If not specified defaults to all available controllers and selected blades

count

integer

Used by ping to specify the number of packets to send

Default: 1

destination

string / required

IP addtress or hostname used to run ping or trace against.

disable_warnings

boolean

added in purestorage.flashblade 1.18.0

Disable insecure certificate warnings

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

discover_mtu

boolean

Used by trace to specify whether or not to discover the MTU along the path being traced

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

fb_url

string

FlashBlade management IP address or Hostname.

fragment

boolean

Used by trace to specify whether or not to fragment packets

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

latency

boolean

Specify whether or not to print the full user-to-user latency

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

method

string

Used by trace to specify the method to use for operations

Choices:

  • "icmp"

  • "tcp"

  • "udp" ← (default)

packet_size

integer

Used by ping to specify the number of data bytes to send per packet

Default: 56

port

string

Used by trace to specify a destination port

resolve

boolean

Specify whether or not to map IP addresses to host names

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

source

string

IP address or hostname used by ping and trace to specify where to start to run the specified operation

If not specified will use all available sources

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purity_fb Python library

  • You must set PUREFB_URL and PUREFB_API environment variables if fb_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: ping Google DNS server
  purestorage.flashblade.purefb_pingtrace:
    destination: 8.8.8.8
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-68618f31-0c9e-4e57-aa44-5306a2cf10e3

- name: trace to Google DNS server from CH1.FM0
  purestorage.flashblade.purefb_pingtrace:
    action: trace
    destination: 8.8.8.8
    fragment_packet: true
    source: CH1.FM0
    discover_mtu: true
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-68618f31-0c9e-4e57-aa44-5306a2cf10e3

Authors

  • Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley)