bigip_firewall_global_rules – Manage AFM global rule settings on BIG-IP

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Ansible/docs/2.8/modules/bigip firewall global rules module


bigip_firewall_global_rules – Manage AFM global rule settings on BIG-IP

New in version 2.8.


Synopsis

  • Configures the global network firewall rules. These firewall rules are applied to all packets except those going through the management interface. They are applied first, before any firewall rules for the packet’s virtual server, route domain, and/or self IP.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

description

string

Description for the global list of firewall rules.

enforced_policy

string

Specifies an enforced firewall policy.

enforced_policy rules are enforced globally.

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 F5_PASSWORD.


aliases: pass, pwd

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 F5_PASSWORD.


aliases: pass, pwd

server

string / required

The BIG-IP host.

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

server_port

integer

Default:

443

The BIG-IP server port.

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

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 ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE.

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

  • cli
  • rest

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 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.

server

string / required

The BIG-IP host.

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

server_port

integer

added in 2.2

Default:

443

The BIG-IP server port.

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

service_policy

string

Specifies a service policy that would apply to traffic globally.

The service policy is applied to all flows, provided if there are no other context specific service policy configuration that overrides the global service policy. For example, when a service policy is configured both at a global level, as well as on a firewall rule, and a flow matches the rule, the more specific service policy configuration in the rule will override the service policy setting at the global level.

The service policy associated here can be created using the bigip_service_policy module.

staged_policy

string

Specifies a staged firewall policy.

staged_policy rules are not enforced while all the visibility aspects namely statistics, reporting and logging function as if the staged-policy rules were enforced globally.

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 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 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: Change enforced policy in AFM global rules
  bigip_firewall_global_rules:
    enforced_policy: enforcing1
    provider:
      password: secret
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      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.


Sample:

My description

enforced_policy

string

changed

The new global Enforced Policy.


Sample:

/Common/enforced1

service_policy

string

changed

The new global Service Policy.


Sample:

/Common/service1

staged_policy

string

changed

The new global Staged Policy.


Sample:

/Common/staged1




Status

Authors

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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