community.network.ce_facts module – Gets facts about HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 5.1.0).

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.ce_facts.

Note

The community.network collection has been deprecated and will be removed from Ansible 12. See the discussion thread for more information.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 6.0.0

Why:

This collection and all content in it is unmaintained and deprecated.

Alternative:

Unknown.

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.

Aliases: network.cloudengine.ce_facts

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
gather_subset 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: "!config"

Notes

Note

• Recommended connection is network_cli.

• This module also works with local connections for legacy playbooks.

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: false
  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      port: "{{ ansible_ssh_port }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      transport: cli

  tasks:

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

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

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

Return Values

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

Key	Description
all_ipv4_addresses list / elements=string	All IPv4 addresses configured on the device Returned: when interfaces is configured
BIOS Version string	The BIOS version running on the remote device Returned: always
Board Type string	The board type of the remote device Returned: always
config string	The current system configuration on the device Returned: when config is configured
CPLD1 Version string	The CPLD1 Version running the remote device Returned: always
CPLD2 Version string	The CPLD2 Version running the remote device Returned: always
FAN string	The fan state on the device Returned: when hardware is configured
filesystems string	The filesystems on the device Returned: when hardware is configured
flash_free string	The flash free space on the device Returned: when hardware is configured
flash_total string	The flash total space on the device Returned: when hardware is configured
gather_subset list / elements=string	The list of fact subsets collected from the device Returned: always
hostname string	The hostname of the remote device Returned: always
interfaces dictionary	A hash of all interfaces running on the system Returned: when interfaces is configured
MAB Version string	The MAB Version running the remote device Returned: always
memory_free string	The memory free space on the remote device Returned: when hardware is configured
memory_total string	The memory total space on the remote device Returned: when hardware is configured
neighbors dictionary	The list of LLDP neighbors from the remote device Returned: when interfaces is configured
PCB Version string	The PCB Version running the remote device Returned: always
PWR string	The power state on the device Returned: when hardware is configured

Status

• This module will be removed in version 6.0.0. [deprecated]

• For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

• wangdezhuang (@QijunPan)

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