I am going to start putting some effort into automating our GTM updates now.
Our basic process is: - Confirm pools are reporting up - Then going to DNS>GSLB and swapping what pools are a member of a particular fqdn. DevCentral has a couple examples: https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.python-bigsuds-Get-or-Set-GTM-Pool-TTL.ashx and https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iControl.python-bigsuds-Get-GTM-Pool-Status.ashx Seems relatively straightforward. I was thinking for a first step, a module that can get the GTM status and set the member pools would be good. Let me know if you are still interested in taking a look at this or I can put together a initial module as well. On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 12:36:29 PM UTC-6, Michael Perzel wrote: > > I'm still in the preliminary phase of developing requirements. From a high > level we have multiple datacenters and use the GTM to route traffic > (round-robin by default but during maintenance we may "pin" traffic to one > datacenter). I should have more specifics in a few weeks. > > I've been reading up on the bigsuds api and would be more than willing to > help develop this. > > On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 11:56:32 AM UTC-6, Matt Hite wrote: >> >> Sorry, I realized I answer your first question but not your second. >> >> I have not started work on GTM modules but am open to implementing this >> for the community. Feel free to share your specific use cases of what you >> would like to be able to do. >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Michael Perzel <michae...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I tested out the 2 pull requests. I successfully was able to set the >>> session/monitor state for pools/nodes, non-existent nodes/pools etc. One >>> thing I noticed is that when a node is set to monitor_state=disabled, >>> session_state=enabled it results in forced offline. Is this intended >>> behavior? That set of parameters isn't in the table. I need to do more >>> testing to see how this effects open connections but as for my use case I >>> think this fixes my issues. >>> >>> Has there been any work in looking at a module modifying a GTM? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 8:40:16 PM UTC-6, Matt Hite wrote: >>>> >>>> BTW, once I can get some testers on this change, I can incorporate a >>>> similar one that works on the pool >>>> -member level. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Matt Hite <li...@beatmixed.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've posted a P.R. which needs some volunteers to test. >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/282 >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Matt Hite <li...@beatmixed.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I'll get a PR up soon to address this. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Michael Perzel <michae...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I opened a new issue at https://github.com/ansible/ >>>>>>> ansible-modules-extras/issues/276 in the correct repository. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I took a look at ansible-module-extra\network\f5\bigip_node.py >>>>>>> seems like it would make sense to add a couple functions called >>>>>>> get/set_node_state. They could be invoked from the else statement that >>>>>>> updates the attributes. I haven't tested this yet but >>>>>>> https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/bigsuds-how-to- >>>>>>> enable-disable-certain-pool-members looks like it has the necessary >>>>>>> code snippet to do this. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 3:37:54 AM UTC-6, Serge van >>>>>>> Ginderachter wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 21 February 2015 at 20:42, Greg Andrews <hva...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Unfortunately, company policy won't let me share an example. I >>>>>>>>> wanted to indicate the general idea that we set up keys for ssh >>>>>>>>> access to >>>>>>>>> our F5 devices and use the Ansible shell module to run "tmsh" >>>>>>>>> commands in >>>>>>>>> them. It's not as nice as a full module, but it seemed easier than >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> other API options available to us. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Ah, ok, I thought you intended to provide an example. 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