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community.network.bigmon_policy – Create and remove a bigmon out-of-band policy.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection.

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

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

Synopsis

  • Create and remove a bigmon out-of-band policy.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
access_token
string
Bigmon access token. If this isn't set, the environment variable BIGSWITCH_ACCESS_TOKEN is used.
action
string
    Choices:
  • forward ←
  • drop
  • flow-gen
Forward matching packets to delivery interfaces, Drop is for measure rate of matching packets, but do not forward to delivery interfaces, capture packets and write to a PCAP file, or enable NetFlow generation.
controller
string / required
The controller address.
delivery_packet_count
string
Default:
0
Run policy until delivery_packet_count packets are delivered.
duration
string
Default:
0
Run policy for duration duration or until delivery_packet_count packets are delivered, whichever comes first.
name
string / required
The name of the policy.
policy_description
string
Description of policy.
priority
string
Default:
100
A priority associated with this policy. The higher priority policy takes precedence over a lower priority.
start_time
string
Default:
"ansible_date_time.iso8601"
Date the policy becomes active
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the policy should be present or absent.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If false, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled devices using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Policy to aggregate filter and deliver data center (DC) 1 traffic
  community.network.bigmon_policy:
    name: policy1
    policy_description: DC 1 traffic policy
    action: drop
    controller: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
    state: present
    validate_certs: false

Authors

  • Ted (@tedelhourani)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/network/bigmon_policy_module.html