bigip_monitor_https – Manages F5 BIG-IP LTM https monitors

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bigip_monitor_https – Manages F5 BIG-IP LTM https monitors

New in version 2.5.


Synopsis

  • Manages F5 BIG-IP LTM https monitors.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

description

string

added in 2.7

The description of the monitor.

interval

integer

The interval specifying how frequently the monitor instance of this template will run. If this parameter is not provided when creating a new monitor, then the default value will be 5. This value must be less than the timeout value.

ip

string

IP address part of the IP/port definition. If this parameter is not provided when creating a new monitor, then the default value will be '*'.

name

string / required

Monitor name.

parent

string

Default:

"/Common/https"

The parent template of this monitor template. Once this value has been set, it cannot be changed. By default, this value is the https parent on the Common partition.

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

port

string

Port address part of the IP/port definition. If this parameter is not provided when creating a new monitor, then the default value will be '*'. Note that if specifying an IP address, a value between 1 and 65535 must be specified.

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.

receive

string

The receive string for the monitor call.

receive_disable

string

This setting works like receive, except that the system marks the node or pool member disabled when its response matches the receive_disable string but not receive. To use this setting, you must specify both receive_disable and receive.

send

string

The send string for the monitor call. When creating a new monitor, if this value is not provided, the default GET /\\r\\n will be used.

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.

ssl_profile

string

added in 2.8

Specifies the SSL profile to use for the HTTPS monitor.

Defining SSL profiles enables refined customization of the SSL attributes for an HTTPS monitor.

This parameter is only supported on BIG-IP versions 13.x and later.

state

string

added in 2.5

  • present

  • absent

When present, ensures that the monitor exists.

When absent, ensures the monitor is removed.

target_password

string

Specifies the password, if the monitored target requires authentication.

target_username

string

Specifies the user name, if the monitored target requires authentication.

time_until_up

integer

Specifies the amount of time in seconds after the first successful response before a node will be marked up. A value of 0 will cause a node to be marked up immediately after a valid response is received from the node. If this parameter is not provided when creating a new monitor, then the default value will be 0.

timeout

integer

The number of seconds in which the node or service must respond to the monitor request. If the target responds within the set time period, it is considered up. If the target does not respond within the set time period, it is considered down. You can change this number to any number you want, however, it should be 3 times the interval number of seconds plus 1 second. If this parameter is not provided when creating a new monitor, then the default value will be 16.

up_interval

integer

added in 2.8

Specifies the interval for the system to use to perform the health check when a resource is up.

When 0, specifies that the system uses the interval specified in interval to check the health of the resource.

When any other number, enables specification of a different interval to use when checking the health of a resource that is up.

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

  • Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12
  • 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 HTTPS Monitor
  bigip_monitor_https:
    name: my_http_monitor
    state: present
    ip: 10.10.10.10
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove HTTPS Monitor
  bigip_monitor_https:
    name: my_http_monitor
    state: absent
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  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 description of the monitor.


Sample:

Important Monitor

interval

integer

changed

The new interval in which to run the monitor check.


Sample:

2

ip

string

changed

The new IP of IP/port definition.


Sample:

10.12.13.14

parent

string

changed

New parent template of the monitor.


Sample:

https

time_until_up

integer

changed

The new time in which to mark a system as up after first successful response.


Sample:

2

timeout

integer

changed

The new timeout in which the remote system must respond to the monitor.


Sample:

10

up_interval

integer

changed

Interval for the system to use to perform the health check when a resource is up.





Status

Authors

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)
  • Wojciech Wypior (@wojtek0806)

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