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purestorage.flasharray.purefa_sessions module – List FlashArray Sessions

Note

This module is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.36.0).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_sessions.

New in purestorage.flasharray 1.29.0

Synopsis

  • List sessions based on filters provided

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.3
  • purestorage >= 1.19
  • py-pure-client >= 1.26.0
  • netaddr
  • requests
  • pycountry
  • urllib3

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_token

string

FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.

disable_warnings

boolean

added in purestorage.flasharray 1.29.0

Disable insecure certificate warnings in debug logs

Choices:

  • false ← (default)
  • true

end

string

End date and time (based on array local time)

If not provided epoch is assumed

Expected format “YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss”

fa_url

string

FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.

start

string

Start date and time (based on array local time)

If not provided epoch is assumed

Expected format “YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss”

timezone

string

The timezone of the FlashArray

If not provided, the module will attempt to get the current local timezone from the server however from Purity//FA 6.5.3 this value will calculated automatically from the FlashArray

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purestorage and py-pure-client Python libraries.
  • Additional Python libraries may be required for specific modules.
  • You must set PUREFA_URL and PUREFA_API environment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly.

Examples

- name: Show all sessions that started after the specified date/time
  purefa_sessions:
    start: "2024-06-29 12:31:34"
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: 89a9356f-c203-d263-8a89-c229486a13ba

- name: Show all sessions that started and ended between specified dates/times
  purefa_sessions:
    start: "2024-06-29 12:31:34"
    end: "2024-06-30 04:23:34"
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: 89a9356f-c203-d263-8a89-c229486a13ba

- name: Show all sessions that ended after the specified date/time
  purefa_sessions:
    end: "2024-06-30 04:23:34"
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: 89a9356f-c203-d263-8a89-c229486a13ba

- name: Show all sessions that have been logged by the array (to the internal limit of the array)
  purefa_sessions:
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: 89a9356f-c203-d263-8a89-c229486a13ba

Authors

  • Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley)

© 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_sessions_module.html