community.network.voss_facts – Collect facts from remote devices running Extreme VOSS

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 3.0.0).

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 community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.voss_facts.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Collects a base set of device facts from a remote device that is running VOSS. 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.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
gather_subset 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, 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.

Notes

Note

Tested against VOSS 7.0.0

Examples

- name: Collect all facts from the device
  community.network.voss_facts:
    gather_subset: all

- name: Collect only the config and default facts
  community.network.voss_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

- name: Do not collect hardware facts
  community.network.voss_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - "!hardware"

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_config string	when config is configured	The current active config 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_interfaces dictionary	when interfaces is configured	A hash of all interfaces running on the system
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 neighbors from the remote device
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

Authors

Lindsay Hill (@LindsayHill)

© 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/community/network/voss_facts_module.html