junos_interface – Manage Interface on Juniper JUNOS network devices

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • This module provides declarative management of Interfaces on Juniper JUNOS network devices.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • ncclient (>=v0.5.2)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
active
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Specifies whether or not the configuration is active or deactivated
aggregate
-
List of Interfaces definitions.
delay
-
Default:
10
Time in seconds to wait before checking for the operational state on remote device. This wait is applicable for operational state argument which are state with values up/down, tx_rate and rx_rate.
description
-
Description of Interface.
duplex
-
    Choices:
  • full
  • half
  • auto ←
Interface link status.
enabled
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Configure interface link status.
mtu
-
Maximum size of transmit packet.
name
- / required
Name of the Interface.
neighbors
-
Check the operational state of given interface name for LLDP neighbor.
The following suboptions are available.
host
-
LLDP neighbor host for given interface name.
port
-
LLDP neighbor port to which given interface name is connected.
provider
dictionary
Deprecated
Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli or connection: netconf.
For more information please see the Junos OS Platform Options guide.
A dict object containing connection details.
host
string / required
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
Default:
22
Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. The port value will default to the well known SSH port of 22 (for transport=cli) or port 830 (for transport=netconf) 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
Default:
10
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.
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.
rx_rate
-
Receiver rate in bits per second (bps).
This is state check parameter only.
Supports conditionals, see Conditionals in Networking Modules
speed
-
Interface link speed.
state
-
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
  • up
  • down
State of the Interface configuration, up idicates present and operationally up and down indicates present and operationally down
tx_rate
-
Transmit rate in bits per second (bps).
This is state check parameter only.
Supports conditionals, see Conditionals in Networking Modules

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the netconf system service be enabled on the remote device being managed.

  • Tested against vSRX JUNOS version 15.1X49-D15.4, vqfx-10000 JUNOS Version 15.1X53-D60.4.

  • Recommended connection is netconf. See the Junos OS Platform Options.

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

  • For information on using CLI and netconf see the Junos OS Platform Options guide

  • For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

  • For more information on using Ansible to manage Juniper network devices see https://www.ansible.com/ansible-juniper.

Examples

- name: configure interface
  junos_interface:
    name: ge-0/0/1
    description: test-interface

- name: remove interface
  junos_interface:
    name: ge-0/0/1
    state: absent

- name: make interface down
  junos_interface:
    name: ge-0/0/1
    enabled: False

- name: make interface up
  junos_interface:
    name: ge-0/0/1
    enabled: True

- name: Deactivate interface config
  junos_interface:
    name: ge-0/0/1
    state: present
    active: False

- name: Activate interface config
  net_interface:
    name: ge-0/0/1
    state: present
    active: True

- name: Configure interface speed, mtu, duplex
  junos_interface:
    name: ge-0/0/1
    state: present
    speed: 1g
    mtu: 256
    duplex: full

- name: Create interface using aggregate
  junos_interface:
    aggregate:
      - name: ge-0/0/1
        description: test-interface-1
      - name: ge-0/0/2
        description: test-interface-2
    speed: 1g
    duplex: full
    mtu: 512

- name: Delete interface using aggregate
  junos_interface:
    aggregate:
      - name: ge-0/0/1
      - name: ge-0/0/2
    state: absent

- name: Check intent arguments
  junos_interface:
    name: "{{ name }}"
    state: up
    tx_rate: ge(0)
    rx_rate: le(0)

- name: Check neighbor intent
  junos_interface:
    name: xe-0/1/1
    neighbors:
    - port: Ethernet1/0/1
      host: netdev

- name: Config + intent
  junos_interface:
    name: "{{ name }}"
    enabled: False
    state: down

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
diff.prepared
string
 when configuration is changed and diff option is enabled.
Configuration difference before and after applying change.

Sample:
[edit interfaces] + ge-0/0/1 { + description test-interface; + }


Status

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

  • Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn)

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