community.network.bigmon_chain module – Create and remove a bigmon inline service chain.

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 5.1.0).

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 community.network.

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

Note

The community.network collection has been deprecated and will be removed from Ansible 12. See the discussion thread for more information.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 6.0.0

Why:

This collection and all content in it is unmaintained and deprecated.

Alternative:

Unknown.

Synopsis

  • Create and remove a bigmon inline service chain.

Aliases: network.bigswitch.bigmon_chain

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_token

string

Bigmon access token. If this isn’t set, the environment variable BIGSWITCH_ACCESS_TOKEN is used.

controller

string / required

The controller IP address.

name

string / required

The name of the chain.

state

string

Whether the service chain should be present or absent.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

validate_certs

boolean

If false, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled devices using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Examples

- name: Bigmon inline service chain
  community.network.bigmon_chain:
    name: MyChain
    controller: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
    state: present
    validate_certs: false

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 6.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Ted (@tedelhourani)