bigip_pool_member – Manages F5 BIG-IP LTM pool members

Synopsis

Manages F5 BIG-IP LTM pool members via iControl SOAP API.

Parameters

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
address string added in 2.2			IP address of the pool member. This can be either IPv4 or IPv6. When creating a new pool member, one of either `address` or `fqdn` must be provided. This parameter cannot be updated after it is set. aliases: ip, host
aggregate list added in 2.8			List of pool member definitions to be created, modified or removed. aliases: members
availability_requirements dictionary added in 2.8			Specifies, if you activate more than one health monitor, the number of health monitors that must receive successful responses in order for the link to be considered available. Specifying an empty string will remove the monitors and revert to inheriting from pool (default). Specifying `none` value will remove any health monitoring from the member completely.
	at_least integer		Specifies the minimum number of active health monitors that must be successful before the link is considered up. This parameter is only relevant when a `type` of `at_least` is used. This parameter will be ignored if a type of `all` is used.
	type string	Choices: all at_least	Monitor rule type when `monitors` is specified. When creating a new pool, if this value is not specified, the default of 'all' will be used.
connection_limit integer			Pool member connection limit. Setting this to 0 disables the limit.
description string			Pool member description.
fqdn string added in 2.6			FQDN name of the pool member. This can be any name that is a valid RFC 1123 DNS name. Therefore, the only characters that can be used are "A" to "Z", "a" to "z", "0" to "9", the hyphen ("-") and the period ("."). FQDN names must include at lease one period; delineating the host from the domain. ex. `host.domain`. FQDN names must end with a letter or a number. When creating a new pool member, one of either `address` or `fqdn` must be provided. This parameter cannot be updated after it is set. aliases: hostname
fqdn_auto_populate boolean added in 2.6		Choices: no yes	Specifies whether the system automatically creates ephemeral nodes using the IP addresses returned by the resolution of a DNS query for a node defined by an FQDN. When `yes`, the system generates an ephemeral node for each IP address returned in response to a DNS query for the FQDN of the node. Additionally, when a DNS response indicates the IP address of an ephemeral node no longer exists, the system deletes the ephemeral node. When `no`, the system resolves a DNS query for the FQDN of the node with the single IP address associated with the FQDN. When creating a new pool member, the default for this parameter is `yes`. Once set this parameter cannot be changed afterwards. This parameter is ignored when `reuse_nodes` is `yes`.
ip_encapsulation string added in 2.8			Specifies the IP encapsulation using either IPIP (IP encapsulation within IP, RFC 2003) or GRE (Generic Router Encapsulation, RFC 2784) on outbound packets (from BIG-IP system to server-pool member). When `none`, disables IP encapsulation. When `inherit`, inherits IP encapsulation setting from the member's pool. When any other value, Options are None, Inherit from Pool, and Member Specific.
monitors list added in 2.8			Specifies the health monitors that the system currently uses to monitor this resource.
name string added in 2.6			Name of the node to create, or re-use, when creating a new pool member. This parameter is optional and, if not specified, a node name will be created automatically from either the specified `address` or `fqdn`. The `enabled` state is an alias of `present`.
partition string		Default: "Common"	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
pool string / required			Pool name. This pool must exist.
port integer / required			Pool member port. This value cannot be changed after it has been set.
preserve_node boolean added in 2.1		Choices: no yes	When state is `absent` attempts to remove the node that the pool member references. The node will not be removed if it is still referenced by other pool members. If this happens, the module will not raise an error. Setting this to `yes` disables this behavior.
priority_group integer added in 2.5			Specifies a number representing the priority group for the pool member. When adding a new member, the default is 0, meaning that the member has no priority. To specify a priority, you must activate priority group usage when you create a new pool or when adding or removing pool members. When activated, the system load balances traffic according to the priority group number assigned to the pool member. The higher the number, the higher the priority, so a member with a priority of 3 has higher priority than a member with a priority of 1.
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	Choices: 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	Choices: 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`.
rate_limit integer			Pool member rate limit (connections-per-second). Setting this to 0 disables the limit.
ratio integer			Pool member ratio weight. Valid values range from 1 through 100. New pool members -- unless overridden with this value -- default to 1.
replace_all_with boolean added in 2.8		Choices: no ← yes	Remove members not defined in the `aggregate` parameter. This operation is all or none, meaning that it will stop if there are some pool members that cannot be removed. aliases: purge
reuse_nodes boolean added in 2.6		Choices: no yes ←	Reuses node definitions if requested.
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 / required		Choices: present ← absent enabled disabled forced_offline	Pool member state.
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		Choices: 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: Add pool member
  bigip_pool_member:
    pool: my-pool
    partition: Common
    host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"
    port: 80
    description: web server
    connection_limit: 100
    rate_limit: 50
    ratio: 2
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Modify pool member ratio and description
  bigip_pool_member:
    pool: my-pool
    partition: Common
    host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"
    port: 80
    ratio: 1
    description: nginx server
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove pool member from pool
  bigip_pool_member:
    state: absent
    pool: my-pool
    partition: Common
    host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"
    port: 80
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Force pool member offline
  bigip_pool_member:
    state: forced_offline
    pool: my-pool
    partition: Common
    host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"
    port: 80
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create members with priority groups
  bigip_pool_member:
    pool: my-pool
    partition: Common
    host: "{{ item.address }}"
    name: "{{ item.name }}"
    priority_group: "{{ item.priority_group }}"
    port: 80
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost
  loop:
    - address: 1.1.1.1
      name: web1
      priority_group: 4
    - address: 2.2.2.2
      name: web2
      priority_group: 3
    - address: 3.3.3.3
      name: web3
      priority_group: 2
    - address: 4.4.4.4
      name: web4
      priority_group: 1

- name: Add pool members aggregate
  bigip_pool_member:
    pool: my-pool
    aggregate:
      - host: 192.168.1.1
        partition: Common
        port: 80
        description: web server
        connection_limit: 100
        rate_limit: 50
        ratio: 2
      - host: 192.168.1.2
        partition: Common
        port: 80
        description: web server
        connection_limit: 100
        rate_limit: 50
        ratio: 2
      - host: 192.168.1.3
        partition: Common
        port: 80
        description: web server
        connection_limit: 100
        rate_limit: 50
        ratio: 2
    provider:
      server: lb.mydomain.com
      user: admin
      password: secret
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Add pool members aggregate, remove non aggregates
  bigip_pool_member:
    pool: my-pool
    aggregate:
      - host: 192.168.1.1
        partition: Common
        port: 80
        description: web server
        connection_limit: 100
        rate_limit: 50
        ratio: 2
      - host: 192.168.1.2
        partition: Common
        port: 80
        description: web server
        connection_limit: 100
        rate_limit: 50
        ratio: 2
      - host: 192.168.1.3
        partition: Common
        port: 80
        description: web server
        connection_limit: 100
        rate_limit: 50
        ratio: 2
    replace_all_with: yes
    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
address string	changed	The address of the pool member. Sample: 1.2.3.4
connection_limit integer	changed	The new connection limit of the pool member Sample: 1000
description string	changed	The new description of pool member. Sample: My pool member
fqdn string	changed	The FQDN of the pool member. Sample: foo.bar.com
fqdn_auto_populate boolean	changed	Whether FQDN auto population was set on the member or not. Sample: True
monitors list	changed	The new list of monitors for the resource. Sample: ['/Common/monitor1', '/Common/monitor2']
priority_group integer	changed	The new priority group. Sample: 3
rate_limit integer	changed	The new rate limit, in connections per second, of the pool member. Sample: 100
ratio integer	changed	The new pool member ratio weight. Sample: 50
replace_all_with boolean	changed	Purges all non-aggregate pool members from device Sample: True

Status

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

Authors

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

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© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/bigip_pool_member_module.html

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