a10_server – Manage A10 Networks AX/SoftAX/Thunder/vThunder devices’ server object

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a10_server – Manage A10 Networks AX/SoftAX/Thunder/vThunder devices’ server object

Synopsis

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

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

client_cert

path

PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication.

This file can also include the key as well, and if the key is included, client_key is not required.

client_key

path

PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication.

If client_cert contains both the certificate and key, this option is not required.

force

boolean

  • no

  • yes

If yes do not get a cached copy.


aliases: thirsty

force_basic_auth

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Credentials specified with url_username and url_password should be passed in HTTP Header.

host

string / required

Hostname or IP of the A10 Networks device.

http_agent

string

Default:

"ansible-httpget"

Header to identify as, generally appears in web server logs.

partition

-

added in 2.3

set active-partition

password

string / required

Password for the username account.


aliases: pass, pwd

server_ip

-

The SLB server IPv4 address.


aliases: ip, address

server_name

- / required

The SLB (Server Load Balancer) server name.


aliases: server

server_ports

-

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.


aliases: port

server_status

-

  • enabled

  • disabled

The SLB virtual server status.


aliases: status

state

-

  • present

  • absent

This is to specify the operation to create, update or remove SLB server.

url

string

HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP URL in the form (http|https|ftp)://[user[:pass]]@host.domain[:port]/path

url_password

string

The password for use in HTTP basic authentication.

If the url_username parameter is not specified, the url_password parameter will not be used.

url_username

string

The username for use in HTTP basic authentication.

This parameter can be used without url_password for sites that allow empty passwords

use_proxy

boolean

  • no
  • yes

If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.

username

string / required

An account with administrator privileges.


aliases: admin, user

validate_certs

boolean

added in 2.3

  • no
  • yes

If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled devices using self-signed certificates.

write_config

boolean

added in 2.2

  • no

  • yes

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.



Notes

Note

  • Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.
  • Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.


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, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description

content

string

success

the full info regarding the slb_server


Sample:

mynewserver




Status

Authors

  • Eric Chou (@ericchou)
  • Mischa Peters (@mischapeters)

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