cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts module – Module to collect facts from remote devices.

Note

This module is part of the cisco.iosxr collection (version 9.0.0).

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 cisco.iosxr.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts.

New in cisco.iosxr 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Collects facts from network devices running the iosxr operating system. This module places the facts gathered in the fact tree keyed by the respective resource name. The facts module will always collect a base set of facts from the device and can enable or disable collection of additional facts.

Aliases: facts

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

available_network_resources

boolean

When ‘True’ a list of network resources for which resource modules are available will be provided.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

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, lacp 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’, ‘lacp’, ‘lacp_interfaces’, ‘lldp_global’, ‘lldp_interfaces’, ‘interfaces’, ‘l2_interfaces’, ‘l3_interfaces’, ‘lag_interfaces’, ‘acls’, ‘acl_interfaces’, ‘static_routes’, ‘ospfv2’.

gather_subset

list / elements=string

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.

Default: ["min"]

Notes

Note

Examples

# Gather all facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    gather_network_resources: all

# Collect only the config and default facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

# Do not collect hardware facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - '!hardware'

# Collect only the lacp facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - '!all'
      - '!min'
    gather_network_resources:
      - lacp

# Do not collect lacp_interfaces facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_network_resources:
      - '!lacp_interfaces'

# Collect lacp and minimal default facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset: min
    gather_network_resources: lacp

# Collect only the interfaces facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - '!all'
      - '!min'
    gather_network_resources:
      - interfaces
      - l2_interfaces

Return Values

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

Key

Description

ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses

list / elements=string

All IPv4 addresses configured on the device

Returned: when interfaces is configured

ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses

list / elements=string

All IPv6 addresses configured on the device

Returned: when interfaces is configured

ansible_net_api

string

The name of the transport

Returned: always

ansible_net_config

string

The current active config from the device

Returned: when config is configured

ansible_net_cpu_utilization

dictionary

The current CPU utilization of the device

Returned: when hardware is configured

ansible_net_filesystems

list / elements=string

All file system names available on the device

Returned: when hardware is configured

ansible_net_gather_network_resources

list / elements=string

The list of fact resource subsets collected from the device

Returned: always

ansible_net_gather_subset

list / elements=string

The list of fact subsets collected from the device

Returned: always

ansible_net_hostname

string

The configured hostname of the device

Returned: always

ansible_net_image

string

The image file the device is running

Returned: always

ansible_net_interfaces

dictionary

A hash of all interfaces running on the system

Returned: when interfaces is configured

ansible_net_memfree_mb

integer

The available free memory on the remote device in Mb

Returned: when hardware is configured

ansible_net_memtotal_mb

integer

The total memory on the remote device in Mb

Returned: when hardware is configured

ansible_net_model

string

The model name returned from the device

Returned: always

ansible_net_neighbors

dictionary

The list of LLDP and CDP neighbors from the remote device. If both, CDP and LLDP neighbor data is present on one port, CDP is preferred.

Returned: when interfaces is configured

ansible_net_python_version

string

The Python version Ansible controller is using

Returned: always

ansible_net_version

string

The operating system version running on the remote device

Returned: always

Authors

  • Ricardo Carrillo Cruz (@rcarrillocruz)

  • Nilashish Chakraborty (@Nilashishc)