cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface – (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manage Interface on Cisco IOS XR network devices

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.iosxr collection (version 2.6.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.iosxr.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface.

New in version 1.0.0: of cisco.iosxr

DEPRECATED

Removed in

major release after 2022-06-01

Why

Newer and updated modules released with more functionality in Ansible 2.9

Alternative

iosxr_interfaces

Synopsis

  • This module provides declarative management of Interfaces on Cisco IOS XR network devices.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Requirements

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

  • ncclient >= 0.5.3 when using netconf

  • lxml >= 4.1.1 when using netconf

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

active

string

Whether the interface is active or preconfigured. Preconfiguration allows you to configure modular services cards before they are inserted into the router. When the cards are inserted, they are instantly configured. Active cards are the ones already inserted.

Choices:

  • active ← (default)

  • preconfigure

aggregate

list / elements=dictionary

List of interfaces definition

active

string

Whether the interface is active or preconfigured. Preconfiguration allows you to configure modular services cards before they are inserted into the router. When the cards are inserted, they are instantly configured. Active cards are the ones already inserted.

Choices:

  • active

  • preconfigure

delay

integer

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

string

Description of Interface being configured.

duplex

string

Configures the interface duplex mode. Default is auto-negotiation when not configured.

Choices:

  • full

  • half

enabled

boolean

Removes the shutdown configuration, which removes the forced administrative down on the interface, enabling it to move to an up or down state.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

mtu

string

Sets the MTU value for the interface. Range is between 64 and 65535’

name

string / required

Name of the interface to configure in type + path format. e.g. GigabitEthernet0/0/0/0

rx_rate

string

Receiver rate in bits per second (bps).

This is state check parameter only.

Supports conditionals, see Conditionals in Networking Modules

speed

string

Configure the speed for an interface. Default is auto-negotiation when not configured.

Choices:

  • 10

  • 100

  • 1000

state

string

State of the Interface configuration, up means present and operationally up and down means present and operationally down

Choices:

  • present

  • absent

  • up

  • down

tx_rate

string

Transmit rate in bits per second (bps).

This is state check parameter only.

Supports conditionals, see Conditionals in Networking Modules

delay

integer

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.

Default: 10

description

string

Description of Interface being configured.

duplex

string

Configures the interface duplex mode. Default is auto-negotiation when not configured.

Choices:

  • full

  • half

enabled

boolean

Removes the shutdown configuration, which removes the forced administrative down on the interface, enabling it to move to an up or down state.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

mtu

string

Sets the MTU value for the interface. Range is between 64 and 65535’

name

string

Name of the interface to configure in type + path format. e.g. GigabitEthernet0/0/0/0

provider

dictionary

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.

For more information please see the Network Guide.


A dict object containing connection details.

host

string

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

Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote 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

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.

transport

string

Specifies the type of connection based transport.

Choices:

  • cli ← (default)

  • netconf

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

string

Receiver rate in bits per second (bps).

This is state check parameter only.

Supports conditionals, see Conditionals in Networking Modules

speed

string

Configure the speed for an interface. Default is auto-negotiation when not configured.

Choices:

  • 10

  • 100

  • 1000

state

string

State of the Interface configuration, up means present and operationally up and down means present and operationally down

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

  • up

  • down

tx_rate

string

Transmit rate in bits per second (bps).

This is state check parameter only.

Supports conditionals, see Conditionals in Networking Modules

Notes

Note

  • This module works with connection network_cli and netconf. See the IOS-XR Platform Options.

  • Tested against IOS XRv 6.1.3.

  • Preconfiguration of physical interfaces is not supported with netconf transport.

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

  • For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the Cisco integration page.

Examples

- name: configure interface
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2
    description: test-interface
    speed: 100
    duplex: half
    mtu: 512

- name: remove interface
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2
    state: absent

- name: make interface up
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2
    enabled: true

- name: make interface down
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2
    enabled: false

- name: Create interface using aggregate
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    aggregate:
    - name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/3
    - name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2
    speed: 100
    duplex: full
    mtu: 512
    state: present

- name: Create interface using aggregate along with additional params in aggregate
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    aggregate:
    - {name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/3, description: test-interface 3}
    - {name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2, description: test-interface 2}
    speed: 100
    duplex: full
    mtu: 512
    state: present

- name: Delete interface using aggregate
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    aggregate:
    - name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/3
    - name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2
    state: absent

- name: Check intent arguments
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/5
    state: up
    delay: 20

- name: Config + intent
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interface:
    name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/5
    enabled: false
    state: down
    delay: 20

Return Values

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

Key

Description

commands

list / elements=string

The list of configuration mode commands sent to device with transport cli

Returned: always (empty list when no commands to send)

Sample: [“interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2”, “description test-interface”, “duplex half”, “mtu 512”]

xml

list / elements=string

NetConf rpc xml sent to device with transport netconf

Returned: always (empty list when no xml rpc to send)

Sample: [“\u003cconfig xmlns:xc=\”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0\”\u003e \u003cinterface-configurations xmlns=\”http://cisco.com/ns/yang/Cisco-IOS-XR-ifmgr-cfg\”\u003e \u003cinterface-configuration xc:operation=\”merge\”\u003e \u003cactive\u003eact\u003c/active\u003e \u003cinterface-name\u003eGigabitEthernet0/0/0/0\u003c/interface-name\u003e \u003cdescription\u003etest-interface-0\u003c/description\u003e \u003cmtus\u003e\u003cmtu\u003e \u003cowner\u003eGigabitEthernet\u003c/owner\u003e \u003cmtu\u003e512\u003c/mtu\u003e \u003c/mtu\u003e\u003c/mtus\u003e \u003cethernet xmlns=\”http://cisco.com/ns/yang/Cisco-IOS-XR-drivers-media-eth-cfg\”\u003e \u003cspeed\u003e100\u003c/speed\u003e \u003cduplex\u003ehalf\u003c/duplex\u003e \u003c/ethernet\u003e \u003c/interface-configuration\u003e \u003c/interface-configurations\u003e\u003c/config\u003e”]

Status

  • This module will be removed in a major release after 2022-06-01. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn)

  • Kedar Kekan (@kedarX)