iosxr_system - Manage the system attributes on Cisco IOS XR devices
New in version 2.3.
Synopsis
- This module provides declarative management of node system attributes on Cisco IOS XR devices. It provides an option to configure host system parameters or remove those parameters from the device active configuration.
Options
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| domain_name | no | Configure the IP domain name on the remote device to the provided value. Value should be in the dotted name form and will be appended to the hostname to create a fully-qualified domain name. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| domain_search | no | Provides the list of domain suffixes to append to the hostname for the purpose of doing name resolution. This argument accepts a list of names and will be reconciled with the current active configuration on the running node. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hostname | no | Configure the device hostname parameter. This option takes an ASCII string value. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lookup_enabled | no |
| Provides administrative control for enabling or disabling DNS lookups. When this argument is set to True, lookups are performed and when it is set to False, lookups are not performed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lookup_source | no | The lookup_source argument provides one or more source interfaces to use for performing DNS lookups. The interface provided in lookup_source must be a valid interface configured on the device. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| name_servers | no | The name_serves argument accepts a list of DNS name servers by way of either FQDN or IP address to use to perform name resolution lookups. This argument accepts wither a list of DNS servers See examples. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| provider | no | A dict object containing connection details. |
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| state | no | present |
| State of the configuration values in the device's current active configuration. When set to present, the values should be configured in the device active configuration and when set to absent the values should not be in the device active configuration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Examples
- name: configure hostname and domain-name
iosxr_system:
hostname: iosxr01
domain_name: test.example.com
domain-search:
- ansible.com
- redhat.com
- cisco.com
- name: remove configuration
iosxr_system:
state: absent
- name: configure DNS lookup sources
iosxr_system:
lookup_source: MgmtEth0/0/CPU0/0
lookup_enabled: yes
- name: configure name servers
iosxr_system:
name_servers:
- 8.8.8.8
- 8.8.4.4
Return Values
Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| name | description | returned | type | sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| commands | The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device | always | list | ['hostname iosxr01', 'ip domain-name test.example.com'] |
Notes
Note
- Tested against IOS XR 6.1.2
Status
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
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