cisco.nxos.nxos_logging – Manage logging on network devices

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.nxos collection (version 2.8.2).

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.nxos.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.nxos.nxos_logging.

New in version 1.0.0: of cisco.nxos

DEPRECATED

Removed in

major release after 2023-08-01

Why

Updated module released with more functionality.

Alternative

nxos_logging_global

Synopsis

  • This module provides declarative management of logging on Cisco NX-OS devices.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

aggregate

list / elements=dictionary

List of logging definitions.

dest

string

Destination of the logs.

Choices:

  • console

  • logfile

  • module

  • monitor

  • server

dest_level

aliases: level

integer

Set logging severity levels.

event

string

Link/trunk enable/default interface configuration logging

Choices:

  • link-enable

  • link-default

  • trunk-enable

  • trunk-default

facility

string

Facility name for logging.

facility_level

integer

Set logging severity levels for facility based log messages.

string

Set logging facility ethpm link status. Not idempotent with version 6.0 images.

Choices:

  • link-down-notif

  • link-down-error

  • link-up-notif

  • link-up-error

file_size

integer

Set logfile size

interface

string

Interface to be used while configuring source-interface for logging (e.g., ‘Ethernet1/2’, ‘mgmt0’)

interface_message

string

Add interface description to interface syslogs. Does not work with version 6.0 images using nxapi as a transport.

Choices:

  • add-interface-description

name

string

If value of dest is logfile it indicates file-name.

provider

dictionary

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.

Starting with Ansible 2.6 we recommend using connection: httpapi for NX-API.

This option will be removed in a release after 2022-06-01.

For more information please see the https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/platform_nxos.html.

A dict object containing connection details.

auth_pass

string

Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead.

authorize

boolean

Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

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 is a common argument used for either cli or nxapi transports. 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. This value applies to either cli or nxapi. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task. (cli=22, http=80, https=443).

ssh_keyfile

string

Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for the cli transport. 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. NX-API can be slow to return on long-running commands (sh mac, sh bgp, etc).

transport

string

Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or nxapi.

Choices:

  • cli ← (default)

  • nxapi

use_proxy

boolean

If no, the environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy will be ignored.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

use_ssl

boolean

Configures the transport to use SSL if set to yes only when the transport=nxapi, otherwise this value is ignored.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

username

string

Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the nxapi authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. If the transport argument is not nxapi, this value is ignored.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

purge

boolean

Remove any switch logging configuration that does not match what has been configured Not supported for ansible_connection local. All nxos_logging tasks must use the same ansible_connection type.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

remote_server

string

Hostname or IP Address for remote logging (when dest is ‘server’).

state

string

State of the logging configuration.

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

timestamp

string

Set logging timestamp format

Choices:

  • microseconds

  • milliseconds

  • seconds

use_vrf

string

VRF to be used while configuring remote logging (when dest is ‘server’).

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: configure console logging with level
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    dest: console
    level: 2
    state: present
- name: remove console logging configuration
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    dest: console
    level: 2
    state: absent
- name: configure file logging with level
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    dest: logfile
    name: testfile
    dest_level: 3
    state: present
- name: Configure logging logfile with size
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    dest: logfile
    name: testfile
    dest_level: 3
    file_size: 16384
- name: configure facility level logging
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    facility: daemon
    facility_level: 0
    state: present
- name: remove facility level logging
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    facility: daemon
    facility_level: 0
    state: absent
- name: Configure Remote Logging
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    dest: server
    remote_server: test-syslogserver.com
    facility: auth
    facility_level: 1
    use_vrf: management
    state: present
- name: Configure Source Interface for Logging
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    interface: mgmt0
    state: present
- name: Purge nxos_logging configuration not managed by this playbook
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    purge: true
- name: Configure logging timestamp
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    timestamp: milliseconds
    state: present
- name: Configure logging facility ethpm link status
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    facility: ethpm
    facility_link_status: link-up-notif
    state: present
- name: Configure logging message ethernet description
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    interface_message: add-interface-description
    state: present
- name: Configure logging event link enable
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    event: link-enable
    state: present
- name: Configure logging using aggregate
  cisco.nxos.nxos_logging:
    aggregate:
    - {dest: console, dest_level: 2}
    - {dest: logfile, dest_level: 2, name: testfile}
    - {facility: daemon, facility_level: 0}
    state: present

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 to send to the device

Returned: always

Sample: [“logging console 2”, “logging logfile testfile 3”, “logging level daemon 0”]

Status

  • This module will be removed in a major release after 2023-08-01. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)