bigip_hostname - Manage the hostname of a BIG-IP  New in version 2.3.   
Synopsis Requirements   Parameters Notes Examples Return Values Status 
Maintenance Author    Synopsis  Manage the hostname of a BIG-IP.  Requirements The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.  f5-sdk >= 3.0.9  Parameters   Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments    hostname required     Hostname of the BIG-IP host.     password required     The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set. 
aliases: pass, pwd     provider (added in 2.5)     A dict object containing connection details.      password required     The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set. 
aliases: pass, pwd      server required     The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set.      server_port   Default:443   The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set.      user required     The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_USER is set.      validate_certs bool   
Choices: no 
yes ←    If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set.      timeout   Default:10   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.      ssh_keyfile     Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.      transport required   
Choices: rest 
cli ←    Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.     server required     The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set.     server_port (added in 2.2)   Default:443   The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set.     user required     The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_USER is set.     validate_certs bool (added in 2.0)   
Choices: no 
yes ←    If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set.     Notes  Note  For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5. Requires the f5-sdk Python package on the host. This is as easy as pip install f5-sdk.   Examples - name: Set the hostname of the BIG-IP
  bigip_hostname:
    hostname: bigip.localhost.localdomain
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost
 Return Values Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:   Key Returned Description    hostname string  changed  The new hostname of the device  Sample: big-ip01.internal     Status This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made. Maintenance This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info. For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here. Author  Tim Rupp (@caphrim007) Matthew Lam (@mryanlam)   Hint If you notice any issues in this documentation you can edit this document to improve it. 

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