community.network.nos_facts – Collect facts from devices running Extreme NOS

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.nos_facts.

Synopsis

  • Collects a base set of device facts from a remote device that is running NOS. 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
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 NOS 7.2.0

Examples

# Collect all facts from the device
- community.network.nos_facts:
    gather_subset: all

# Collect only the config and default facts
- community.network.nos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

# Do not collect hardware facts
- community.network.nos_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 / 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_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

  • Lindsay Hill (@LindsayHill)