# bigip_device_connectivity – Manages device IP configuration settings for HA on a BIG-IP

New in version 2.5.

- Synopsis

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## Synopsis

- Manages device IP configuration settings for HA on a BIG-IP. Each BIG-IP device has synchronization and failover connectivity information (IP addresses) that you define as part of HA pairing or clustering. This module allows you to configure that information.

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---

cluster_mirroring
string
added in 2.7

Choices:
- between-clusters
- within-cluster

Specifies whether mirroring occurs within the same cluster or between different clusters on a multi-bladed system.
This parameter is only supported on platforms that have multiple blades, such as Viprion hardware. It is not supported on VE.

config_sync_ip string |  | Local IP address that the system uses for ConfigSync operations.

failover_multicast
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

When `yes`, ensures that the Failover Multicast configuration is enabled and if no further multicast configuration is provided, ensures that `multicast_interface`, `multicast_address` and `multicast_port` are the defaults specified in each option's description. When `no`, ensures that Failover Multicast configuration is disabled.

mirror_primary_address string |  | Specifies the primary IP address for the system to use to mirror connections.
mirror_secondary_address string |  | Specifies the secondary IP address for the system to use to mirror connections.
multicast_address string |  | IP address for the system to send multicast messages associated with failover. When `failover_multicast` is `yes` and this option is not provided, a default of `224.0.0.245` will be used.
multicast_interface string |  | Interface over which the system sends multicast messages associated with failover. When `failover_multicast` is `yes` and this option is not provided, a default of `eth0` will be used.
multicast_port integer |  | Port for the system to send multicast messages associated with failover. When `failover_multicast` is `yes` and this option is not provided, a default of `62960` will be used. This value must be between 0 and 65535.
provider dictionary added in 2.5 |  | A dict object containing connection details.
| auth_provider string |  | Configures the auth provider for to obtain authentication tokens from the remote device. This option is really used when working with BIG-IQ devices.
| password string / required |  | The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_PASSWORD`. aliases: pass, pwd
| server string / required |  | The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER`.
| server_port integer | Default: 443 | The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_SERVER_PORT`.
| ssh_keyfile path |  | Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE`.
| timeout integer |  | Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.

transport
string

Choices:
- cli
- rest ←

Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.

| user string / required |  | The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_USER`.

validate_certs
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes ←

If `no`, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable `F5_VALIDATE_CERTS`.

unicast_failover
list

Desired addresses to use for failover operations. Options `address` and `port` are supported with dictionary structure where `address` is the local IP address that the system uses for failover operations. Port specifies the port that the system uses for failover operations. If `port` is not specified, the default value `1026` will be used. If you are specifying the (recommended) management IP address, use 'management-ip' in the address field.

## Notes

Note

- This module is primarily used as a component of configuring HA pairs of BIG-IP devices.

- Requires BIG-IP >= 12.0.0

- For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.

- Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.

- The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.

## Examples

    - name: Configure device connectivity for standard HA pair
      bigip_device_connectivity:
        config_sync_ip: 10.1.30.1
        mirror_primary_address: 10.1.30.1
        unicast_failover:
          - address: management-ip
          - address: 10.1.30.1
        provider:
          server: lb.mydomain.com
          user: admin
          password: secret
      delegate_to: localhost

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
changed boolean | always | Denotes if the F5 configuration was updated.
cluster_mirroring string | changed | The current cluster-mirroring setting. Sample: between-clusters
config_sync_ip string | changed | The new value of the `config_sync_ip` setting. Sample: 10.1.1.1
failover_multicast boolean | changed | Whether a failover multicast attribute has been changed or not.
mirror_primary_address string | changed | The new value of the `mirror_primary_address` setting. Sample: 10.1.1.2
mirror_secondary_address string | changed | The new value of the `mirror_secondary_address` setting. Sample: 10.1.1.3
multicast_address string | changed | The new value of the `multicast_address` setting. Sample: 224.0.0.245
multicast_interface string | changed | The new value of the `multicast_interface` setting. Sample: eth0
multicast_port integer | changed | The new value of the `multicast_port` setting. Sample: 1026
unicast_failover list | changed | The new value of the `unicast_failover` setting. Sample: [{'address': '10.1.1.2', 'port': 1026}]

## Status

- This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]

- This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]

### Authors

- Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

- Wojciech Wypior (@wojtek0806)

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