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cisco.nso.nso_show – Displays data from Cisco NSO.

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.nso collection (version 1.0.3).

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.nso.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.nso.nso_show.

Synopsis

• This module provides support for displaying data from Cisco NSO.

Requirements

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

• Cisco NSO version 3.4.12 or higher, 4.1.9 or higher, 4.2.6 or higher, 4.3.7 or higher, 4.4.5 or higher, 4.5 or higher.

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
operational boolean	Controls whether or not operational data is included in the result. Choices: no ← (default) yes
password string / required	NSO password
path string / required	Path to NSO data.
timeout integer	JSON-RPC request timeout in seconds Default: 300
url string / required	NSO JSON-RPC URL, http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc
username string / required	NSO username
validate_certs boolean	When set to true, validates the SSL certificate of NSO when using SSL Choices: no ← (default) yes

See Also

See also

Cisco DevNet NSO Sandbox

Provides a reservable pod with NSO, virtual network topology simulated with Cisco CML and a Linux host running Ansible

NSO Developer Resources on DevNet

Documentation for getting started using NSO

NSO Developer Hub

Collaboration community portal for NSO developers

NSO Developer Github

Code for NSO on Github

Examples

- name: DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING OPERATIONAL DATA
  cisco.nso.nso_show:
    url: https://10.10.20.49/jsonrpc
    username: developer
    password: C1sco12345
    path: /ncs:devices/device{dist-rtr01}
    operational: true
  register: result

- name: Display the result
  debug:
    var: result

- name: DISPLAY INTERFACES
  cisco.nso.nso_show:
    url: "https://10.10.20.49/jsonrpc"
    username: developer
    password: C1sco12345
    path: /ncs:devices/device{dist-rtr01}/config/interface
    operational: true
  register: result

- name: Display the result
  debug:
    var: result

Return Values

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

Key	Description
output dictionary	Configuration Returned: success

Authors

• Claes Nästén (@cnasten)