purestorage.flashblade.purefb_ra module – Enable or Disable Pure Storage FlashBlade Remote Assist

Note

This module is part of the purestorage.flashblade collection (version 1.18.0).

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.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_ra.

New in purestorage.flashblade 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Enablke or Disable Remote Assist for a Pure Storage FlashBlade.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7

  • purity_fb >= 1.9

  • netaddr

  • pytz

  • urllib3

Parameters

Parameter

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api_token

string

FlashBlade API token for admin privileged user.

disable_warnings

boolean

added in purestorage.flashblade 1.18.0

Disable insecure certificate warnings

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

duration

integer

added in purestorage.flashblade 1.18.0

Specifies the duration of the remote-assist session in hours

It determines the length of time the session will remain active after it’s initiated.

Default: 24

fb_url

string

FlashBlade management IP address or Hostname.

state

string

Define state of remote assist

When set to enable the RA port can be exposed using the debug module.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

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: Enable Remote Assist port
  purestorage.flashblade.purefb_ra:
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-9f276a18-50ab-446e-8a0c-666a3529a1b6
- name: Disable Remote Assist port
  purestorage.flashblade.purefb_ra:
    state: absent
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-9f276a18-50ab-446e-8a0c-666a3529a1b6

Authors

  • Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley)