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purestorage.flashblade.purefb_banner – Configure Pure Storage FlashBlade GUI and SSH MOTD message
Note
This plugin is part of the purestorage.flashblade collection (version 1.7.0).
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.flashblade.
To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flashblade.purefb_banner.
New in version 1.4.0: of purestorage.flashblade
Synopsis
- Configure MOTD for Pure Storage FlashBlades.
 - This will be shown during an SSH or GUI login to the system.
 - Multiple line messages can be achieved using \n.
 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- python >= 2.7
 - purity_fb >= 1.9
 - netaddr
 - pytz
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| api_token
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        FlashBlade API token for admin privileged user.
         | 
     |
| banner
        
        string
         | 
      Default: 
        "Welcome to the machine..."
         | 
      
        
        Banner text, or MOTD, to use
         | 
     
| fb_url
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        FlashBlade management IP address or Hostname.
         | 
     |
| state
        
        string
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Set ot delete the MOTD
         | 
     
Notes
Note
- This module requires the 
purity_fbPython library - You must set 
PUREFB_URLandPUREFB_APIenvironment variables if fb_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly 
Examples
- name: Set new banner text
  purefb_banner:
    banner: "Banner over\ntwo lines"
    state: present
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641
- name: Delete banner text
  purefb_banner:
    state: absent
    fb_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: T-55a68eb5-c785-4720-a2ca-8b03903bf641
  Authors
- Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley) <pure-ansible-team@purestorage.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/purestorage/flashblade/purefb_banner_module.html