bigip_firewall_policy – Manage AFM security firewall policies on a BIG-IP

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bigip_firewall_policy – Manage AFM security firewall policies on a BIG-IP

New in version 2.7.


Synopsis

  • Manages AFM security firewall policies on a BIG-IP.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

description

string

The description to attach to the policy.

This parameter is only supported on versions of BIG-IP >= 12.1.0. On earlier versions it will simply be ignored.

name

string / required

The name of the policy to create.

partition

string

Default:

"Common"

Device partition to manage resources on.

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.

rules

list

Specifies a list of rules that you want associated with this policy. The order of this list is the order they will be evaluated by BIG-IP. If the specified rules do not exist (for example when creating a new policy) then they will be created.

Rules specified here, if they do not exist, will be created with "default deny" behavior. It is expected that you follow-up this module with the actual configuration for these rules.

The bigip_firewall_rule module can be used to also create, as well as edit, existing and new rules.

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.

state

string

  • present

  • absent

When state is present, ensures that the policy exists.

When state is absent, ensures that the policy is removed.

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: Create a basic policy with some rule stubs
  bigip_firewall_policy:
    name: foo
    rules:
      - rule1
      - rule2
      - rule3
    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 of the policy.


Sample:

My firewall policy

rules

list

changed

The list of rules, in the order that they are evaluated, on the device.


Sample:

['rule1', 'rule2', 'rule3']




Status

Authors

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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