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na_ontap_interface - ONTAP LIF configuration

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis

  • Creating / deleting and modifying the LIF.

Requirements

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

  • A physical or virtual clustered Data ONTAP system. The modules were developed with Clustered Data ONTAP 9.3
  • Ansible 2.6
  • netapp-lib (2017.10.30). Install using ‘pip install netapp-lib’
  • To enable http on the cluster you must run the following commands ‘set -privilege advanced;’ ‘system services web modify -http-enabled true;’

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
address
Specifies the LIF's IP address.
Required when state=present
admin_status
    Choices:
  • up
  • down
Specifies the administrative status of the LIF.
failover_policy
Specifies the failover policy for the LIF.
firewall_policy
Specifies the firewall policy for the LIF.
home_node
Specifies the LIF's home node.
Required when state=present.
home_port
Specifies the LIF's home port.
Required when state=present
hostname
required
The hostname or IP address of the ONTAP instance.
https
bool
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Enable and disabled https
interface_name
required
Specifies the logical interface (LIF) name.
is_auto_revert
If true, data LIF will revert to its home node under certain circumstances such as startup, and load balancing migration capability is disabled automatically
netmask
Specifies the LIF's netmask.
Required when state=present.
password
required
Password for the specified user.

aliases: pass
protocols
Specifies the list of data protocols configured on the LIF. By default, the values in this element are nfs, cifs and fcache. Other supported protocols are iscsi and fcp. A LIF can be configured to not support any data protocols by specifying 'none'. Protocol values of none, iscsi or fcp can't be combined with any other data protocol(s).
role
Specifies the role of the LIF.
Required when state=present.
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the specified interface should exist or not.
username
required
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://goo.gl/BRu78Z.

aliases: user
vserver
required
The name of the vserver to use.

Notes

Note

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

Examples

- name: Create interface
  na_ontap_interface:
    state: present
    interface_name: data2
    home_port: e0d
    home_node: laurentn-vsim1
    role: data
    protocols: nfs
    admin_status: up
    failover_policy: local-only
    firewall_policy: mgmt
    is_auto_revert: true
    address: 10.10.10.10
    netmask: 255.255.255.0
    vserver: svm1
    hostname: "{{ netapp_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ netapp_username }}"
    password: "{{ netapp_password }}"

- name: Delete interface
  na_ontap_interface:
    state: absent
    interface_name: data2
    vserver: svm1
    hostname: "{{ netapp_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ netapp_username }}"
    password: "{{ netapp_password }}"

Status

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

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

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