community.network.ce_facts module – Gets facts about HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 3.3.0).

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 community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.ce_facts.

Synopsis

  • Collects facts from CloudEngine devices running the CloudEngine operating system. Fact collection is supported over Cli transport. This module prepends all of the base network fact keys with ansible_net_<fact>. The facts module will always collect a base set of facts from the device and can enable or disable collection of additional facts.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

gather_subset

string

When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all, hardware, config, and interfaces. Can specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial ! to specify that a specific subset should not be collected.

Default: “!config”

Notes

Note

  • Recommended connection is network_cli.

  • This module also works with local connections for legacy playbooks.

Examples

# Note: examples below use the following provider dict to handle
#       transport and authentication to the node.

- name: CloudEngine facts test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      port: "{{ ansible_ssh_port }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      transport: cli

  tasks:

  - name: "Gather_subset is all"
    community.network.ce_facts:
      gather_subset: all
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

  - name: "Collect only the config facts"
    community.network.ce_facts:
      gather_subset: config
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

  - name: "Do not collect hardware facts"
    community.network.ce_facts:
      gather_subset: "!hardware"
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

all_ipv4_addresses

list / elements=string

All IPv4 addresses configured on the device

Returned: when interfaces is configured

BIOS Version

string

The BIOS version running on the remote device

Returned: always

Board Type

string

The board type of the remote device

Returned: always

config

string

The current system configuration on the device

Returned: when config is configured

CPLD1 Version

string

The CPLD1 Version running the remote device

Returned: always

CPLD2 Version

string

The CPLD2 Version running the remote device

Returned: always

FAN

string

The fan state on the device

Returned: when hardware is configured

filesystems

string

The filesystems on the device

Returned: when hardware is configured

flash_free

string

The flash free space on the device

Returned: when hardware is configured

flash_total

string

The flash total space on the device

Returned: when hardware is configured

gather_subset

list / elements=string

The list of fact subsets collected from the device

Returned: always

hostname

string

The hostname of the remote device

Returned: always

interfaces

dictionary

A hash of all interfaces running on the system

Returned: when interfaces is configured

MAB Version

string

The MAB Version running the remote device

Returned: always

memory_free

string

The memory free space on the remote device

Returned: when hardware is configured

memory_total

string

The memory total space on the remote device

Returned: when hardware is configured

neighbors

dictionary

The list of LLDP neighbors from the remote device

Returned: when interfaces is configured

PCB Version

string

The PCB Version running the remote device

Returned: always

PWR

string

The power state on the device

Returned: when hardware is configured

Authors

  • wangdezhuang (@QijunPan)