community.network.ordnance_facts – Collect facts from Ordnance Virtual Routers over SSH

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.ordnance_facts.

Synopsis

  • Collects a base set of device facts from an Ordnance Virtual router over SSH. 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.

Examples

---
# Note: examples below use the following provider dict to handle
#       transport and authentication to the node.
vars:
  cli:
    host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    username: RouterName
    password: ordnance
    transport: cli

---
- name: Collect all facts from the device
  community.network.ordnance_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

- name: Collect only the config and default facts
  community.network.ordnance_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

- name: Do not collect hardware facts
  community.network.ordnance_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - "!hardware"
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

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 virtual router

ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses
list / elements=string
when interfaces is configured
All IPv6 addresses configured on the virtual router

ansible_net_config
string
when config is configured
The current active config from the virtual router

ansible_net_gather_subset
list / elements=string
always
The list of fact subsets collected from the virtual router

ansible_net_interfaces
dictionary
when interfaces is configured
A hash of all interfaces running on the virtual router



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