cisco.ucs.ucs_vlan_find module – Find VLANs on Cisco UCS Manager

Note

This module is part of the cisco.ucs collection (version 1.8.0).

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.ucs.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.ucs.ucs_vlan_find.

New in version 2.9: of cisco.ucs

Synopsis

  • Find VLANs on Cisco UCS Manager based on different criteria.

Requirements

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

  • ucsmsdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

fabric

string

The fabric configuration of the VLAN. This can be one of the following:

common - The VLAN applies to both fabrics and uses the same configuration parameters in both cases.

A — The VLAN only applies to fabric A.

B — The VLAN only applies to fabric B.

Choices:

  • common ← (default)

  • A

  • B

hostname

string / required

IP address or hostname of Cisco UCS Manager.

Modules can be used with the UCS Platform Emulator https://cs.co/ucspe

password

string / required

Password for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.

pattern

string

Regex pattern to find within the name property of the fabricVlan class.

This is required if vlanid parameter is not supplied.

port

integer

Port number to be used during connection (by default uses 443 for https and 80 for http connection).

proxy

string

If use_proxy is no, specfies proxy to be used for connection. e.g. ‘http://proxy.xy.z:8080’

use_proxy

boolean

If no, will not use the proxy as defined by system environment variable.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

use_ssl

boolean

If no, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

username

string

Username for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.

Default: “admin”

vlanid

string

The unique string identifier assigned to the VLAN.

A VLAN ID can be between ‘1’ and ‘3967’, or between ‘4048’ and ‘4093’.

This is required if pattern parameter is not supplied.

Examples

- name: Get all vlans in fabric A
  cisco.ucs.ucs_vlan_find:
    hostname: 172.16.143.150
    username: admin
    password: password
    fabric: 'A'
    pattern: '.'
- name: Confirm if vlan 15 is present
  cisco.ucs.ucs_vlan_find:
    hostname: 172.16.143.150
    username: admin
    password: password
    vlanid: '15'

Return Values

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

Key

Description

vlan_list

list / elements=string

basic details of vlans found

Returned: on success

Sample: [{“id”: “0”, “name”: “vlcloud1”}]

Authors

  • David Martinez (@dx0xm)

  • David Soper (@dsoper2)

  • John McDonough (@movinalot)

  • CiscoUcs (@CiscoUcs)