community.network.avi_api_session – Avi API Module

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 3.0.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.avi_api_session.

Synopsis

This module can be used for calling any resources defined in Avi REST API. https://avinetworks.com/
This module is useful for invoking HTTP Patch methods and accessing resources that do not have an REST object associated with them.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

avisdk

Parameters

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_context dictionary			Avi API context that includes current session ID and CSRF Token. This allows user to perform single login and re-use the session.
api_version string		Default: "16.4.4"	Avi API version of to use for Avi API and objects.
avi_credentials dictionary			Avi Credentials dictionary which can be used in lieu of enumerating Avi Controller login details.
	api_version string	Default: "16.4.4"	Avi controller version
	controller string		Avi controller IP or SQDN
	csrftoken string		Avi controller API csrftoken to reuse existing session with session id
	password string		Avi controller password
	port string		Avi controller port
	session_id string		Avi controller API session id to reuse existing session with csrftoken
	tenant string	Default: "admin"	Avi controller tenant
	tenant_uuid string		Avi controller tenant UUID
	timeout string	Default: 300	Avi controller request timeout
	token string		Avi controller API token
	username string		Avi controller username
avi_disable_session_cache_as_fact boolean		Choices: no ← yes	It disables avi session information to be cached as a fact.
controller string		Default: ""	IP address or hostname of the controller. The default value is the environment variable `AVI_CONTROLLER`.
data string			HTTP body in YAML or JSON format.
http_method string / required		Choices: get put post patch delete	Allowed HTTP methods for RESTful services and are supported by Avi Controller.
params string			Query parameters passed to the HTTP API.
password string		Default: ""	Password of Avi user in Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable `AVI_PASSWORD`.
path string			Path for Avi API resource. For example, `path: virtualservice` will translate to `api/virtualserivce`.
tenant string		Default: "admin"	Name of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.
tenant_uuid string		Default: ""	UUID of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.
timeout string		Default: 60	Timeout (in seconds) for Avi API calls.
username string		Default: ""	Username used for accessing Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable `AVI_USERNAME`.

Notes

Note

For more information on using Ansible to manage Avi Network devices see https://www.ansible.com/ansible-avi-networks.

Examples

- name: Get Pool Information using avi_api_session
  community.network.avi_api_session:
    controller: "{{ controller }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    http_method: get
    path: pool
    params:
      name: "{{ pool_name }}"
    api_version: 16.4
  register: pool_results

- name: Patch Pool with list of servers
  community.network.avi_api_session:
    controller: "{{ controller }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    http_method: patch
    path: "{{ pool_path }}"
    api_version: 16.4
    data:
      add:
        servers:
          - ip:
              addr: 10.10.10.10
              type: V4
          - ip:
              addr: 20.20.20.20
              type: V4
  register: updated_pool

- name: Fetch Pool metrics bandwidth and connections rate
  community.network.avi_api_session:
    controller: "{{ controller }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    http_method: get
    path: analytics/metrics/pool
    api_version: 16.4
    params:
      name: "{{ pool_name }}"
      metric_id: l4_server.avg_bandwidth,l4_server.avg_complete_conns
      step: 300
      limit: 10
  register: pool_metrics

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
obj dictionary	success, changed	Avi REST resource

Authors

Gaurav Rastogi (@grastogi23) <grastogi@avinetworks.com>

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/network/avi_api_session_module.html

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