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a10_server - Manage A10 Networks AX/SoftAX/Thunder/vThunder devices’ server object.¶

New in version 1.8.

Synopsis
Options
Examples
Return Values
Notes
- Status

Synopsis ¶

Manage SLB (Server Load Balancer) server objects on A10 Networks devices via aXAPIv2.

Options ¶

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
host	yes			Hostname or IP of the A10 Networks device.
partition (added in 2.3)	no			set active-partition
password	yes			Password for the `username` account. aliases: pass, pwd
server_ip	no			The SLB server IPv4 address. aliases: ip, address
server_name	yes			The SLB (Server Load Balancer) server name. aliases: server
server_ports	no			A list of ports to create for the server. Each list item should be a dictionary which specifies the `port:` and `protocol:`, but can also optionally specify the `status:`. See the examples below for details. This parameter is required when `state` is `present`.
server_status	no	enabled	enabled disabled	The SLB virtual server status. aliases: status
state	no	present	present absent	This is to specify the operation to create, update or remove SLB server.
username	yes			An account with administrator privileges. aliases: user, admin
validate_certs (added in 2.3)	no	yes	yes no	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled devices using self-signed certificates.
write_config (added in 2.2)	no	no	yes no	If `yes`, any changes will cause a write of the running configuration to non-volatile memory. This will save all configuration changes, including those that may have been made manually or through other modules, so care should be taken when specifying `yes`.

Examples ¶

# Create a new server
- a10_server:
    host: a10.mydomain.com
    username: myadmin
    password: mypassword
    partition: mypartition
    server: test
    server_ip: 1.1.1.100
    server_ports:
      - port_num: 8080
        protocol: tcp
      - port_num: 8443
        protocol: TCP

Return Values ¶

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

name	description	returned	type	sample
content	the full info regarding the slb_server	success	string	mynewserver

Notes ¶

Note

Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.
Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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