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purestorage.flasharray.purefa_network – Manage network interfaces in a Pure Storage FlashArray
Note
This plugin is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.11.0).
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 purestorage.flasharray.
To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_network.
New in version 1.0.0: of purestorage.flasharray
Synopsis
- This module manages the physical and virtual network interfaces on a Pure Storage FlashArray.
 - To manage VLAN interfaces use the purefa_vlan module.
 - To manage network subnets use the purefa_subnet module.
 - To remove an IP address from a non-management port use 0.0.0.0/0
 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- python >= 2.7
 - purestorage >= 1.19
 - py-pure-client >= 1.6.0
 - netaddr
 - requests
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| address
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        IPv4 or IPv6 address of interface in CIDR notation.
        
       
        To remove an IP address from a non-management port use 0.0.0.0/0
         | 
     |
| api_token
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.
         | 
     |
| fa_url
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
         | 
     |
| gateway
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        IPv4 or IPv6 address of interface gateway.
         | 
     |
| mtu
        
        integer
         | 
      Default: 
        1500
         | 
      
        
        MTU size of the interface. Range is 1280 to 9216.
         | 
     
| name
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        Interface name (physical or virtual).
         | 
     |
| state
        
        string
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        State of existing interface (on/off).
         | 
     
Notes
Note
- This module requires the 
purestorageandpy-pure-clientPython libraries - Additional Python librarues may be required for specific modules.
 - You must set 
PUREFA_URLandPUREFA_APIenvironment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly 
Examples
- name: Configure and enable network interface ct0.eth8
  purefa_network:
    name: ct0.eth8
    gateway: 10.21.200.1
    address: "10.21.200.18/24"
    mtu: 9000
    state: present
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: c6033033-fe69-2515-a9e8-966bb7fe4b40
- name: Disable physical interface ct1.eth2
  purefa_network:
    name: ct1.eth2
    state: absent
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: c6033033-fe69-2515-a9e8-966bb7fe4b40
- name: Enable virtual network interface vir0
  purefa_network:
    name: vir0
    state: present
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: c6033033-fe69-2515-a9e8-966bb7fe4b40
- name: Remove an IP address from iSCSI interface ct0.eth4
  purefa_network:
    name: ct0.eth4
    address: 0.0.0.0/0
    gateway: 0.0.0.0
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: c6033033-fe69-2515-a9e8-966bb7fe4b40
  Authors
- Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley) <pure-ansible-team@purestorage.com>
 
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/purestorage/flasharray/purefa_network_module.html