frr_facts – Collect facts from remote devices running Free Range Routing (FRR)

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

  • Collects a base set of device facts from a remote device that is running FRR. 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.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
gather_subset
-
Default:
"!config"
When supplied, this argument restricts the facts collected to a given subset.
Possible values for this argument include all, hardware, config, and interfaces.
Specify a list of values to include a larger subset.
Use a value with an initial ! to collect all facts except that subset.

Notes

Note

  • Tested against FRR 6.0.

Examples

- name: Collect all facts from the device
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset: all

- name: Collect only the config and default facts
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

- name: Collect the config and hardware facts
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
      - hardware

- name: Do not collect hardware facts
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - "!hardware"

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses
list
when interfaces is configured
All IPv4 addresses configured on the device
ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses
list
when interfaces is configured
All IPv6 addresses configured on the device
ansible_net_api
string
always
The name of the transport
ansible_net_config
string
when config is configured
The current active config from the device
ansible_net_gather_subset
list
always
The list of fact subsets collected from the device
ansible_net_hostname
string
always
The configured hostname of the device
ansible_net_interfaces
dictionary
when interfaces is configured
A hash of all interfaces running on the system
ansible_net_mem_stats
dictionary
when hardware is configured
The memory statistics fetched from the device
ansible_net_mpls_ldp_neighbors
dictionary
when interfaces is configured and LDP daemon is running on the device
The list of MPLS LDP neighbors from the remote device
ansible_net_python_version
string
always
The Python version that the Ansible controller is using
ansible_net_version
string
always
The FRR version running on the remote device


Status

Red Hat Support

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

Authors

  • Nilashish Chakraborty (@NilashishC)

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