| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
                
                                                            | address 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | Specifies the IP address that will receive messages from the specified local Log Destination. This parameter is only available when typeismanagement-port. When creating a new log destination and typeismanagement-port, this parameter is required. | 
                            
                                                            | description 
                    string
                                                                 |  | The description of the log destination. | 
                            
                                                            | distribution 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            adaptivebalancedreplicated | Specifies the distribution method used by the Remote High Speed Log destination to send messages to pool members. When adaptive, connections to pool members will be added as required to provide enough logging bandwidth. This can have the undesirable effect of logs accumulating on only one pool member when it provides sufficient logging bandwidth on its own. When balanced, sends each successive log to a new pool member, balancing the logs among them according to the pool's load balancing method. When replicated, replicates each log to all pool members, for redundancy. When creating a new log destination and typeisremote-high-speed-log, if this parameter is not specified, the default isadaptive. | 
                            
                                                            | forward_to 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | When typeisremote-syslog, specifies the management port log destination, which will be used to forward the logs to a single log server, or a remote high-speed log destination, which will be used to forward the logs to a pool of remote log servers. When typeissplunkorarcsight, specifies the log destination to which logs are forwarded. This log destination may be a management port destination, a remote high-speed log destination, or a remote Syslog destination which is configured to send logs to an ArcSight or Splunk server. When creating a new log destination and typeisremote-syslog,splunk, orarcsight, this parameter is required. | 
                            
                                                            | name 
                    string
                                             / required                     |  | Specifies the name of the log destination. | 
                            
                                                            | partition 
                    string
                                                                 | Default: 
 "Common" | Device partition to manage resources on. | 
                            
                                                            | pool 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | When typeisremote-high-speed-log, specifies the existing pool of remote high-speed log servers where logs will be sent. When typeisipfix, specifies the existing LTM pool of remote IPFIX collectors. Any BIG-IP application that uses this log destination sends its IP-traffic logs to this pool of collectors. When creating a new destination and typeisremote-high-speed-logoripfix, this parameter is required. | 
                            
                                                            | pool_settings 
                    dictionary
                                                                 |  | This parameter is only available when typeisremote-high-speed-log. Deprecated. Use the equivalent top-level parameters instead. | 
                                                        
                                                |  | distribution 
                    string
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            adaptivebalancedreplicated | Specifies the distribution method used by the Remote High Speed Log destination to send messages to pool members. When adaptive, connections to pool members will be added as required to provide enough logging bandwidth. This can have the undesirable effect of logs accumulating on only one pool member when it provides sufficient logging bandwidth on its own. When balanced, sends each successive log to a new pool member, balancing the logs among them according to the pool's load balancing method. When replicated, replicates each log to all pool members, for redundancy. When creating a new log destination (and typeisremote-high-speed-log), if this parameter is not specified, the default isadaptive. | 
                            
                                                |  | pool 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Specifies the existing pool of remote high-speed log servers where logs will be sent. When creating a new destination (and typeisremote-high-speed-log), this parameter is required. | 
                            
                                                |  | protocol 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Specifies the protocol for the system to use to send logs to the pool of remote high-speed log servers, where the logs are stored. When creating a new log destination (and typeisremote-high-speed-log), if this parameter is not specified, the default istcp. | 
                                            
                                                            | port 
                    integer
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | Specifies the port of the IP address that will receive messages from the specified local Log Destination. This parameter is only available when typeismanagement-port. When creating a new log destination and typeismanagement-port, this parameter is required. | 
                            
                                                            | protocol 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            tcpudpipfixnetflow-9 | When typeisremote-high-speed-log, specifies the protocol for the system to use to send logs to the pool of remote high-speed log servers, where the logs are stored. When typeisipfix, can be IPFIX or Netflow v9, depending on the type of collectors you have in the pool that you specify. When typeismanagement-port, specifies the protocol used to send messages to the specified location. When typeismanagement-port, onlytcpandudpare valid values. | 
                            
                                                            | 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
                                                                 |  | 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
                                                                 |  | 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. | 
                                            
                                                            | server_ssl_profile 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | If the transport_profileis a TCP profile, you can use this field to choose a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) profile for sending logs to the IPFIX collectors. An SSL server profile defines how to communicate securely over SSL or Transport Layer Security (TLS). This parameter is only available when typeisipfix. | 
                            
                                                            | state 
                    string
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            present ←absent | When present, ensures that the resource exists. When absent, ensures the resource is removed. | 
                            
                                                            | syslog_format 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            bsd-syslogsysloglegacy-bigiprfc5424rfc3164 | Specifies the method to use to format the logs associated with the remote Syslog log destination. When creating a new log destination (and typeisremote-syslog), if this parameter is not specified, the default isbsd-syslog. The syslogandrfc5424choices are two ways of saying the same thing. The bsd-syslogandrfc3164choices are two ways of saying the same thing. | 
                            
                                                            | syslog_settings 
                    dictionary
                                                                 |  | This parameter is only available when typeisremote-syslog. Deprecated. Use the equivalent top-level parameters instead. | 
                                                        
                                                |  | forward_to 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Specifies the management port log destination, which will be used to forward the logs to a single log server, or a remote high-speed log destination, which will be used to forward the logs to a pool of remote log servers. When creating a new log destination (and typeisremote-syslog), this parameter is required. | 
                            
                                                |  | syslog_format 
                    string
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            bsd-syslogsysloglegacy-bigiprfc5424rfc3164 | Specifies the method to use to format the logs associated with the remote Syslog log destination. When creating a new log destination (and typeisremote-syslog), if this parameter is not specified, the default isbsd-syslog. The syslogandrfc5424choices are two ways of saying the same thing. The bsd-syslogandrfc3164choices are two ways of saying the same thing. | 
                                            
                                                            | template_delete_delay 
                    integer
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | Enter the time (in seconds) that the BIG-IP device should pause between deleting an obsolete IPFIX template and reusing its template ID. This feature is useful for systems where you use iRules to create customized IPFIX templates. | 
                            
                                                            | template_retransmit_interval 
                    integer
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | Enter the time (in seconds) between each transmission of IPFIX templates to the pool of IPFIX collectors. The logging destination periodically retransmits all of its IPFIX templates at the interval you set in this field. These retransmissions are helpful for UDP, a lossy transport mechanism. This parameter is only available when typeisipfix. | 
                            
                                                            | transport_profile 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | Is a transport profile based on either TCP or UDP. This profile defines the TCP or UDP options used to send IP-traffic logs to the pool of collectors. This parameter is only available when typeisipfix. | 
                            
                                                            | type 
                    string
                                             / required                     | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            remote-high-speed-logremote-syslogarcsightsplunkmanagement-portipfix | Specifies the type of log destination. Once created, this parameter cannot be changed. |