You are reading an unmaintained version of the Ansible documentation. Unmaintained Ansible versions can contain unfixed security vulnerabilities (CVE). Please upgrade to a maintained version. See the latest Ansible documentation.

cisco.dnac.discovery module – Resource module for Discovery

Note

This module is part of the cisco.dnac collection (version 6.5.0).

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.dnac.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.dnac.discovery.

New in version 3.1.0: of cisco.dnac

Synopsis

• Manage operations create, update and delete of the resource Discovery.

• Initiates discovery with the given parameters.

• Stops all the discoveries and removes them.

• Stops the discovery for the given Discovery ID and removes it. Discovery ID can be obtained using the “Get Discoveries by range” API.

• Stops or starts an existing discovery.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Requirements

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

• dnacentersdk >= 2.5.0

• python >= 3.5

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
attributeInfo dictionary	Discovery’s attributeInfo.
cdpLevel integer	Discovery’s cdpLevel.
deviceIds string	Discovery’s deviceIds.
discoveryCondition string	Discovery’s discoveryCondition.
discoveryStatus string	Discovery’s discoveryStatus.
discoveryType string	Discovery’s discoveryType.
dnac_debug boolean	Flag for Cisco DNA Center SDK to enable debugging. Choices: no ← (default) yes
dnac_host string / required	The Cisco DNA Center hostname.
dnac_password string	The Cisco DNA Center password to authenticate.
dnac_port integer	The Cisco DNA Center port. Default: 443
dnac_username aliases: user string	The Cisco DNA Center username to authenticate. Default: “admin”
dnac_verify boolean	Flag to enable or disable SSL certificate verification. Choices: no yes ← (default)
dnac_version string	Informs the SDK which version of Cisco DNA Center to use. Default: “2.3.3.0”
enablePasswordList string	Discovery’s enablePasswordList.
globalCredentialIdList list / elements=string	Discovery’s globalCredentialIdList.
httpReadCredential dictionary	Discovery’s httpReadCredential.
comments string	Discovery’s comments.
credentialType string	Discovery’s credentialType.
description string	Discovery’s description.
id string	Discovery’s id.
instanceTenantId string	Discovery’s instanceTenantId.
instanceUuid string	Discovery’s instanceUuid.
password string	Discovery’s password.
port integer	Discovery’s port.
secure boolean	Secure flag. Choices: no yes
username string	Discovery’s username.
httpWriteCredential dictionary	Discovery’s httpWriteCredential.
comments string	Discovery’s comments.
credentialType string	Discovery’s credentialType.
description string	Discovery’s description.
id string	Discovery’s id.
instanceTenantId string	Discovery’s instanceTenantId.
instanceUuid string	Discovery’s instanceUuid.
password string	Discovery’s password.
port integer	Discovery’s port.
secure boolean	Secure flag. Choices: no yes
username string	Discovery’s username.
id string	Discovery’s id.
ipAddressList string	Discovery’s ipAddressList.
ipFilterList string	Discovery’s ipFilterList.
isAutoCdp boolean	IsAutoCdp flag. Choices: no yes
lldpLevel integer	Discovery’s lldpLevel.
name string	Discovery’s name.
netconfPort string	Discovery’s netconfPort.
numDevices integer	Discovery’s numDevices.
parentDiscoveryId string	Discovery’s parentDiscoveryId.
passwordList string	Discovery’s passwordList.
preferredMgmtIPMethod string	Discovery’s preferredMgmtIPMethod.
protocolOrder string	Discovery’s protocolOrder.
retry integer	Number of times to try establishing connection to device.
retryCount integer	Discovery’s retryCount.
snmpAuthPassphrase string	Discovery’s snmpAuthPassphrase.
snmpAuthProtocol string	Discovery’s snmpAuthProtocol.
snmpMode string	Discovery’s snmpMode.
snmpPrivPassphrase string	Discovery’s snmpPrivPassphrase.
snmpPrivProtocol string	Discovery’s snmpPrivProtocol.
snmpROCommunity string	Snmp RO community of the devices to be discovered.
snmpRoCommunity string	Discovery’s snmpRoCommunity.
snmpROCommunityDesc string	Description for Snmp RO community.
snmpRoCommunityDesc string	Discovery’s snmpRoCommunityDesc.
snmpRWCommunity string	Snmp RW community of the devices to be discovered.
snmpRwCommunity string	Discovery’s snmpRwCommunity.
snmpRWCommunityDesc string	Description for Snmp RW community.
snmpRwCommunityDesc string	Discovery’s snmpRwCommunityDesc.
snmpUserName string	Discovery’s snmpUserName.
snmpVersion string	Version of SNMP. V2 or v3.
timeOut integer	Discovery’s timeOut.
timeout integer	Time to wait for device response in seconds.
updateMgmtIp boolean	UpdateMgmtIp flag. Choices: no yes
userNameList string	Discovery’s userNameList.
validate_response_schema boolean	Flag for Cisco DNA Center SDK to enable the validation of request bodies against a JSON schema. Choices: no yes ← (default)

Notes

Note

• SDK Method used are discovery.Discovery.delete_discovery_by_id, discovery.Discovery.start_discovery, discovery.Discovery.updates_discovery_by_id,

• Paths used are post /dna/intent/api/v1/discovery, delete /dna/intent/api/v1/discovery, delete /dna/intent/api/v1/discovery/{id}, put /dna/intent/api/v1/discovery,

• Does not support check_mode

• The plugin runs on the control node and does not use any ansible connection plugins, but instead the embedded connection manager from Cisco DNAC SDK

• The parameters starting with dnac_ are used by the Cisco DNAC Python SDK to establish the connection

See Also

See also

Cisco DNA Center documentation for Discovery StartDiscovery

Complete reference of the StartDiscovery API.

Cisco DNA Center documentation for Discovery DeleteAllDiscovery

Complete reference of the DeleteAllDiscovery API.

Cisco DNA Center documentation for Discovery DeleteDiscoveryById

Complete reference of the DeleteDiscoveryById API.

Cisco DNA Center documentation for Discovery UpdatesAnExistingDiscoveryBySpecifiedId

Complete reference of the UpdatesAnExistingDiscoveryBySpecifiedId API.

Examples

- name: Delete all
  cisco.dnac.discovery:
    dnac_host: "{{dnac_host}}"
    dnac_username: "{{dnac_username}}"
    dnac_password: "{{dnac_password}}"
    dnac_verify: "{{dnac_verify}}"
    dnac_port: "{{dnac_port}}"
    dnac_version: "{{dnac_version}}"
    dnac_debug: "{{dnac_debug}}"
    state: absent

- name: Update all
  cisco.dnac.discovery:
    dnac_host: "{{dnac_host}}"
    dnac_username: "{{dnac_username}}"
    dnac_password: "{{dnac_password}}"
    dnac_verify: "{{dnac_verify}}"
    dnac_port: "{{dnac_port}}"
    dnac_version: "{{dnac_version}}"
    dnac_debug: "{{dnac_debug}}"
    state: present
    attributeInfo: {}
    cdpLevel: 0
    deviceIds: string
    discoveryCondition: string
    discoveryStatus: string
    discoveryType: string
    enablePasswordList: string
    globalCredentialIdList:
    - string
    httpReadCredential:
      comments: string
      credentialType: string
      description: string
      id: string
      instanceTenantId: string
      instanceUuid: string
      password: string
      port: 0
      secure: true
      username: string
    httpWriteCredential:
      comments: string
      credentialType: string
      description: string
      id: string
      instanceTenantId: string
      instanceUuid: string
      password: string
      port: 0
      secure: true
      username: string
    id: string
    ipAddressList: string
    ipFilterList: string
    isAutoCdp: true
    lldpLevel: 0
    name: string
    netconfPort: string
    numDevices: 0
    parentDiscoveryId: string
    passwordList: string
    preferredMgmtIPMethod: string
    protocolOrder: string
    retryCount: 0
    snmpAuthPassphrase: string
    snmpAuthProtocol: string
    snmpMode: string
    snmpPrivPassphrase: string
    snmpPrivProtocol: string
    snmpRoCommunity: string
    snmpRoCommunityDesc: string
    snmpRwCommunity: string
    snmpRwCommunityDesc: string
    snmpUserName: string
    timeOut: 0
    updateMgmtIp: true
    userNameList: string

- name: Create
  cisco.dnac.discovery:
    dnac_host: "{{dnac_host}}"
    dnac_username: "{{dnac_username}}"
    dnac_password: "{{dnac_password}}"
    dnac_verify: "{{dnac_verify}}"
    dnac_port: "{{dnac_port}}"
    dnac_version: "{{dnac_version}}"
    dnac_debug: "{{dnac_debug}}"
    state: present
    cdpLevel: 0
    discoveryType: string
    enablePasswordList:
    - string
    globalCredentialIdList:
    - string
    httpReadCredential:
      password: string
      port: 0
      secure: true
      username: string
    httpWriteCredential:
      password: string
      port: 0
      secure: true
      username: string
    ipAddressList: string
    ipFilterList:
    - string
    lldpLevel: 0
    name: string
    netconfPort: string
    passwordList:
    - string
    preferredMgmtIPMethod: string
    protocolOrder: string
    retry: 0
    snmpAuthPassphrase: string
    snmpAuthProtocol: string
    snmpMode: string
    snmpPrivPassphrase: string
    snmpPrivProtocol: string
    snmpROCommunity: string
    snmpROCommunityDesc: string
    snmpRWCommunity: string
    snmpRWCommunityDesc: string
    snmpUserName: string
    snmpVersion: string
    timeout: 0
    userNameList:
    - string

- name: Delete by id
  cisco.dnac.discovery:
    dnac_host: "{{dnac_host}}"
    dnac_username: "{{dnac_username}}"
    dnac_password: "{{dnac_password}}"
    dnac_verify: "{{dnac_verify}}"
    dnac_port: "{{dnac_port}}"
    dnac_version: "{{dnac_version}}"
    dnac_debug: "{{dnac_debug}}"
    state: absent
    id: string

Return Values

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

Key	Description
dnac_response dictionary	A dictionary or list with the response returned by the Cisco DNAC Python SDK Returned: always Sample: “{\n \”response\”: {\n \”taskId\”: \”string\”,\n \”url\”: \”string\”\n },\n \”version\”: \”string\”\n}\n”

Authors

• Rafael Campos (@racampos)

Collection links

Issue Tracker Repository (Sources)