cisco.iosxr.iosxr_netconf – Configures NetConf sub-system service on Cisco IOS-XR devices

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.iosxr collection (version 1.2.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.iosxr.

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

New in version 1.0.0: of cisco.iosxr

Synopsis

  • This module provides an abstraction that enables and configures the netconf system service running on Cisco IOS-XR Software. This module can be used to easily enable the Netconf API. Netconf provides a programmatic interface for working with configuration and state resources as defined in RFC 6242.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
netconf_port
integer
Default:
830
This argument specifies the port the netconf service should listen on for SSH connections. The default port as defined in RFC 6242 is 830.

aliases: listens_on
netconf_vrf
string
Default:
"default"
netconf vrf name

aliases: vrf
provider
dictionary
Deprecated
Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.
For more information please see the Network Guide.
A dict object containing connection details.
host
string
Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
password
string
Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.
port
integer
Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
ssh_keyfile
path
Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.
timeout
integer
Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
transport
string
    Choices:
  • cli ←
  • netconf
Specifies the type of connection based transport.
username
string
Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Specifies the state of the iosxr_netconf resource on the remote device. If the state argument is set to present the netconf service will be configured. If the state argument is set to absent the netconf service will be removed from the configuration.

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: enable netconf service on port 830
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_netconf:
    listens_on: 830
    state: present

- name: disable netconf service
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_netconf:
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
commands
string
when changed is True
Returns the command sent to the remote device

Sample:
ssh server netconf port 830


Authors

  • Kedar Kekan (@kedarX)