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

Note

This module 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)