community.network.cnos_system module – Manage the system attributes on Lenovo CNOS devices

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.cnos_system.

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

  • This module provides declarative management of node system attributes on Lenovo CNOS devices. It provides an option to configure host system parameters or remove those parameters from the device active configuration.

Aliases: network.cnos.cnos_system

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

domain_name

string

Configures the default domain name suffix to be used when referencing this node by its FQDN. This argument accepts either a list of domain names or a list of dicts that configure the domain name and VRF name or keyword ‘default’. See examples.

string

Configures a list of domain name suffixes to search when performing DNS name resolution. This argument accepts either a list of domain names or a list of dicts that configure the domain name and VRF name or keyword ‘default’. See examples.

hostname

string

Configure the device hostname parameter. This option takes an ASCII string value or keyword ‘default’

lookup_enabled

boolean

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.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

lookup_source

string

Provides one or more source interfaces to use for performing DNS lookups. The interface must be a valid interface configured. on the device.

name_servers

string

List of DNS name servers by IP address to use to perform name resolution lookups. This argument accepts either a list of DNS servers or a list of hashes that configure the name server and VRF name or keyword ‘default’. See examples.

state

string

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

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

Examples

- name: Configure hostname and domain-name
  community.network.cnos_system:
    hostname: cnos01
    domain_name: test.example.com

- name: Remove configuration
  community.network.cnos_system:
    state: absent

- name: Configure name servers
  community.network.cnos_system:
    name_servers:
      - 8.8.8.8
      - 8.8.4.4

- name: Configure DNS Lookup sources
  community.network.cnos_system:
    lookup_source: MgmtEth0/0/CPU0/0
    lookup_enabled: true

- name: Configure name servers with VRF support
  nxos_system:
    name_servers:
      - { server: 8.8.8.8, vrf: mgmt }
      - { server: 8.8.4.4, vrf: mgmt }

Return Values

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

Key

Description

commands

list / elements=string

The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device

Returned: always

Sample: ["hostname cnos01", "ip domain-name test.example.com vrf default"]

Status

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

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Anil Kumar Muraleedharan (@amuraleedhar)