ce_facts – Gets facts about HUAWEI CloudEngine switches

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Collects facts from CloudEngine devices running the CloudEngine operating system. Fact collection is supported over Cli transport. 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

Notes

Examples

# Note: examples below use the following provider dict to handle
#       transport and authentication to the node.

- name: CloudEngine facts test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      port: "{{ ansible_ssh_port }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      transport: cli

  tasks:

  - name: "Gather_subset is all"
    ce_facts:
      gather_subset: all
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

  - name: "Collect only the config facts"
    ce_facts:
      gather_subset: config
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

  - name: "Do not collect hardware facts"
    ce_facts:
      gather_subset: "!hardware"
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• wangdezhuang (@QijunPan)