community.network.exos_facts – Collect facts from devices running Extreme EXOS

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 2.1.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.exos_facts.

Synopsis

• Collects a base set of device facts from a remote device that is running EXOS. 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_network_resources list / elements=string		When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all and the resources like interfaces, vlans etc. 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. Valid subsets are 'all', 'lldp_global'.
gather_subset list / elements=string	Default: ["!config"]	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.

Notes

Note

• Tested against EXOS 22.5.1.7

Examples

- name:  Gather all legacy facts
  community.network.exos_facts:
    gather_subset: all

- name: Gather only the config and default facts
  community.network.exos_facts:
    gather_subset: config

- name: Do not gather hardware facts
  community.network.exos_facts:
    gather_subset: "!hardware"

- name: Gather legacy and resource facts
  community.network.exos_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    gather_network_resources: all

- name: Gather only the lldp global resource facts and no legacy facts
  community.network.exos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - '!all'
      - '!min'
    gather_network_resource:
      - lldp_global

- name: Gather lldp global resource and minimal legacy facts
  community.network.exos_facts:
    gather_subset: min
    gather_network_resource: lldp_global

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 / elements=string	when interfaces is configured	All IPv4 addresses configured on the device
ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses list / elements=string	when interfaces is configured	All Primary IPv6 addresses configured on the device
ansible_net_config string	when config is configured	The current active config from the device
ansible_net_gather_network_resources list / elements=string	when the resource is configured	The list of fact for network resource subsets collected from the device
ansible_net_gather_subset list / elements=string	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_memfree_mb integer	when hardware is configured	The available free memory on the remote device in Mb
ansible_net_memtotal_mb integer	when hardware is configured	The total memory on the remote device in Mb
ansible_net_model string	always	The model name returned from the device
ansible_net_neighbors dictionary	when interfaces is configured	The list of LLDP neighbors from the remote device
ansible_net_serialnum string	always	The serial number of the remote device
ansible_net_version string	always	The operating system version running on the remote device

Authors

• Lance Richardson (@hlrichardson)

• Ujwal Koamrla (@ujwalkomarla)