bigip_timer_policy – Manage timer policies on a BIG-IP

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bigip_timer_policy – Manage timer policies on a BIG-IP

New in version 2.6.


Synopsis

  • Manage timer policies on a BIG-IP.

Requirements

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

  • f5-sdk >= 3.0.16

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

description

-

Specifies descriptive text that identifies the timer policy.

name

- / required

Specifies the name of the timer policy.

partition

-

Default:

"Common"

Device partition to manage resources on.

password

- / required

The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_PASSWORD.


aliases: pass, pwd

provider

-

added in 2.5

Default:

null

A dict object containing connection details.

password

- / required

The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_PASSWORD.


aliases: pass, pwd

server

- / required

The BIG-IP host.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER.

server_port

-

Default:

443

The BIG-IP server port.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT.

ssh_keyfile

-

Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE.

timeout

-

Default:

10

Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.

transport

- / required

  • rest
  • cli

Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.

user

- / required

The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_USER.

validate_certs

boolean

  • no
  • yes

If no, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS.

rules

-

Rules that you want assigned to the timer policy

destination_ports

-

The list of destination ports to match the rule on.

Specify a port range by specifying start and end ports separated by a dash (-).

This field is only available if you have selected the sctp, tcp, or udp protocol.

idle_timeout

-

Specifies an idle timeout, in seconds, for protocol and port pairs that match the timer policy rule.

When infinite, specifies that the protocol and port pairs that match the timer policy rule have no idle timeout.

When specifying rules, if this parameter is not specified, the default of unspecified will be used.

name

- / required

The name of the rule.

protocol

-

  • all-other
  • ah
  • bna
  • esp
  • etherip
  • gre
  • icmp
  • ipencap
  • ipv6
  • ipv6-auth
  • ipv6-crypt
  • ipv6-icmp
  • isp-ip
  • mux
  • ospf
  • sctp
  • tcp
  • udp
  • udplite

Specifies the IP protocol entry for which the timer policy rule is being configured. This could be a layer-4 protocol (such as tcp, udp or sctp.

Only flows matching the configured protocol will make use of this rule.

When all-other is specified, if there are no specific ip-protocol rules that match the flow, the flow matches all the other ip-protocol rules.

When specifying rules, if this parameter is not specified, the default of all-other will be used.

server

- / required

The BIG-IP host.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER.

server_port

-

added in 2.2

Default:

443

The BIG-IP server port.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT.

state

-

  • present

  • absent

When present, ensures that the resource exists.

When absent, ensures the resource is removed.

user

- / required

The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_USER.

validate_certs

boolean

added in 2.0

  • no
  • yes

If no, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS.



Notes

Note

  • For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
  • Requires the f5-sdk Python package on the host. This is as easy as pip install f5-sdk.
  • Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.
  • The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.


Examples

- name: Create a timer policy
  bigip_timer_policy:
    name: timer1
    description: My timer policy
    rules:
      - name: rule1
        protocol: tcp
        idle_timeout: indefinite
        destination_ports:
          - 443
          - 80
      - name: rule2
        protocol: 200
      - name: rule3
        protocol: sctp
        idle_timeout: 200
        destination_ports:
          - 21
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    state: present
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove a timer policy and all its associated rules
  bigip_timer_policy:
    name: timer1
    description: My timer policy
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    state: absent
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description

description

string

changed

The new description of the timer policy.


Sample:

True




Status

Authors

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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