cisco.nxos.nxos_facts – Gets facts about NX-OS switches
Note
This plugin is part of the cisco.nxos collection (version 2.7.0).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.nxos.
To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.nxos.nxos_facts.
New in version 1.0.0: of cisco.nxos
Synopsis
- Collects facts from Cisco Nexus devices running the NX-OS operating system. Fact collection is supported over both Cli and Nxapi transports. This module prepends all of the base network fact keys with
ansible_net_<fact>. The facts module will always collect a base set of facts from the device and can enable or disable collection of additional facts.
Note
This module has a corresponding action plugin.
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| available_network_resources boolean |
| When 'True' a list of network resources for which resource modules are available will be provided. | |
| gather_network_resources list / elements=string | When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all and the resources like interfaces, vlans etc. Can specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial ! to specify that a specific subset should not be collected. Valid subsets are 'all', 'bfd_interfaces', 'lag_interfaces', 'telemetry', 'vlans', 'lacp', 'lacp_interfaces', 'interfaces', 'l3_interfaces', 'l2_interfaces', 'lldp_global', 'acls', 'acl_interfaces', 'ospfv2'. | ||
| gather_subset list / elements=string | Default: "!config" | When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all, hardware, config, legacy, and interfaces. Can specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial ! to specify that a specific subset should not be collected. | |
| provider dictionary | Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.Starting with Ansible 2.6 we recommend using connection: httpapi for NX-API.This option will be removed in a release after 2022-06-01. For more information please see the https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/platform_nxos.html. A dict object containing connection details. | ||
| auth_pass string | Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead. | ||
| authorize boolean |
| Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead. | |
| host string | Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport. | ||
| password string | Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This is a common argument used for either cli or nxapi transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead. | ||
| port integer | Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. This value applies to either cli or nxapi. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task. (cli=22, http=80, https=443). | ||
| ssh_keyfile string | Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for the cli transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead. | ||
| 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. NX-API can be slow to return on long-running commands (sh mac, sh bgp, etc). | ||
| transport string |
| Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or nxapi. | |
| use_proxy boolean |
| If no, the environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy will be ignored. | |
| use_ssl boolean |
| Configures the transport to use SSL if set to yes only when the transport=nxapi, otherwise this value is ignored. | |
| username string | Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the nxapi authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead. | ||
| validate_certs boolean |
| If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. If the transport argument is not nxapi, this value is ignored. | |
Notes
Note
- Tested against NXOSv 7.3.(0)D1(1) on VIRL
- Unsupported for Cisco MDS
- For information on using CLI and NX-API see the NXOS Platform Options guide
- For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide
- For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the Cisco integration page.
Examples
- name: Gather all legacy facts
cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
gather_subset: all
- name: Gather only the config and default facts
cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
gather_subset:
- config
- name: Do not gather hardware facts
cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
gather_subset:
- '!hardware'
- name: Gather legacy and resource facts
cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
gather_subset: all
gather_network_resources: all
- name: Gather only the interfaces resource facts and no legacy facts
cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
gather_subset:
- '!all'
- '!min'
gather_network_resources:
- interfaces
- name: Gather interfaces resource and minimal legacy facts
cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
gather_subset: min
gather_network_resources: interfaces
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| Key | Returned | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses list / elements=string | when interfaces is configured | All IPv4 addresses configured on the device |
| ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses list / elements=string | when interfaces is configured | All IPv6 addresses configured on the device |
| ansible_net_api string | always | The name of the transport |
| ansible_net_config string | when config is configured | The current active config from the device |
| ansible_net_filesystems list / elements=string | when hardware is configured | All file system names available on the device |
| ansible_net_gather_network_resources list / elements=string | when the resource is configured | The list of fact for network resource subsets collected from the device |
| ansible_net_gather_subset list / elements=string | always | The list of fact subsets collected from the device |
| ansible_net_hostname string | always | The configured hostname of the device |
| ansible_net_image string | always | The image file the device is running |
| ansible_net_interfaces dictionary | when interfaces is configured | A hash of all interfaces running on the system |
| ansible_net_license_hostid string | always | The License host id of the device |
| ansible_net_memfree_mb integer | when hardware is configured | The available free memory on the remote device in Mb |
| ansible_net_memtotal_mb integer | when hardware is configured | The total memory on the remote device in Mb |
| ansible_net_model string | always | The model name returned from the device |
| ansible_net_neighbors dictionary | when interfaces is configured | The list of LLDP and CDP neighbors from the device. If both, CDP and LLDP neighbor data is present on one port, CDP is preferred. |
| ansible_net_python_version string | always | The Python version Ansible controller is using |
| ansible_net_serialnum string | always | The serial number of the remote device |
| ansible_net_version string | always | The operating system version running on the remote device |
| fan_info dictionary | when legacy is configured | A hash of facts about fans in the remote device |
| hostname dictionary | when legacy is configured | The configured hostname of the remote device |
| interfaces_list dictionary | when legacy is configured | The list of interface names on the remote device |
| kickstart string | when legacy is configured | The software version used to boot the system |
| module dictionary | when legacy is configured | A hash of facts about the modules in a remote device |
| platform string | when legacy is configured | The hardware platform reported by the remote device |
| power_supply_info string | when legacy is configured | A hash of facts about the power supplies in the remote device |
| vlan_list list / elements=string | when legacy is configured | The list of VLAN IDs configured on the remote device |
Authors
- Jason Edelman (@jedelman8)
- Gabriele Gerbino (@GGabriele)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/cisco/nxos/nxos_facts_module.html