bigip_facts – Collect facts from F5 BIG-IP devices
bigip_facts – Collect facts from F5 BIG-IP devices
DEPRECATED
Removed in Ansible: | |
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version: 2.11 | |
Why: | The bigip_facts module relies on SOAP to communicate with the BIG-IP, and has a large amount of code that does not conform to existing F5 standards. The bigip_device_facts module is easier to maintain and use. |
Alternative: | bigip_device_facts |
Synopsis
- Collect facts from F5 BIG-IP devices via iControl SOAP API
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- bigsuds
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | |
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filter - |
Shell-style glob matching string used to filter fact keys. Not applicable for software, provision, and system_info fact categories. | ||
include - / required |
|
Fact category or list of categories to collect | |
password string / required |
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable
| ||
provider dictionary added in 2.5 |
A dict object containing connection details. | ||
password string / required |
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable
| ||
server string / required |
The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | ||
server_port integer |
Default: 443 |
The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | |
ssh_keyfile path |
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 | ||
timeout integer |
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 string |
|
Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. | |
user string / 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 | ||
validate_certs boolean |
|
If You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | |
server string / required |
The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | ||
server_port integer added in 2.2 |
Default: 443 |
The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | |
session boolean |
|
BIG-IP session support; may be useful to avoid concurrency issues in certain circumstances. | |
user string / 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 | ||
validate_certs boolean added in 2.0 |
|
If You may omit this option by setting the environment variable |
Notes
Note
- Requires BIG-IP software version >= 11.4
- F5 developed module ‘bigsuds’ required (see http://devcentral.f5.com)
- Best run as a local_action in your playbook
- Tested with manager and above account privilege level
provision
facts were added in 2.2- This module is deprecated. Use the
bigip_device_facts
module instead. - For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
- 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: Collect BIG-IP facts
bigip_facts:
server: lb.mydomain.com
user: admin
password: secret
include:
- interface
- vlan
delegate_to: localhost
Status
- This module will be removed in version 2.11. [deprecated]
- For more information see DEPRECATED.
Authors
- Matt Hite (@mhite)
- Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/bigip_facts_module.html