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cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts module – Module to collect facts from remote devices.

Note

This module is part of the cisco.iosxr collection (version 3.3.1).

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.iosxr.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts.

New in cisco.iosxr 1.0.0

Synopsis

• Collects facts from network devices running the iosxr operating system. This module places the facts gathered in the fact tree keyed by the respective resource name. 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
available_network_resources boolean	When ‘True’ a list of network resources for which resource modules are available will be provided. Choices: false ← (default) true
gather_network_resources list / elements=string	When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all and the resources like interfaces, lacp etc. 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. Valid subsets are ‘all’, ‘lacp’, ‘lacp_interfaces’, ‘lldp_global’, ‘lldp_interfaces’, ‘interfaces’, ‘l2_interfaces’, ‘l3_interfaces’, ‘lag_interfaces’, ‘acls’, ‘acl_interfaces’, ‘static_routes’, ‘ospfv2’.
gather_subset list / elements=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: ["min"]
provider dictionary	Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli. For more information please see the Network Guide. A dict object containing connection details.
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 value is used to authenticate the SSH session. 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.
ssh_keyfile path	Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. 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.
transport string	Specifies the type of connection based transport. Choices: "cli" ← (default) "netconf"
username string	Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.

Notes

Note

• This module works with connection network_cli. See the IOS-XR Platform Options.

• For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the :ref:`Ansible Network Guide <network_guide>`

• For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the `Cisco integration page <https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/cisco>`_.

Examples

# Gather all facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    gather_network_resources: all

# Collect only the config and default facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
    - config

# Do not collect hardware facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
    - '!hardware'

# Collect only the lacp facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
    - '!all'
    - '!min'
    gather_network_resources:
    - lacp

# Do not collect lacp_interfaces facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_network_resources:
    - '!lacp_interfaces'

# Collect lacp and minimal default facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset: min
    gather_network_resources: lacp

# Collect only the interfaces facts
- cisco.iosxr.iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
    - '!all'
    - '!min'
    gather_network_resources:
    - interfaces
    - l2_interfaces

Return Values

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

Key	Description
ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses list / elements=string	All IPv4 addresses configured on the device Returned: when interfaces is configured
ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses list / elements=string	All IPv6 addresses configured on the device Returned: when interfaces is configured
ansible_net_api string	The name of the transport Returned: always
ansible_net_config string	The current active config from the device Returned: when config is configured
ansible_net_filesystems list / elements=string	All file system names available on the device Returned: when hardware is configured
ansible_net_gather_network_resources list / elements=string	The list of fact resource subsets collected from the device Returned: always
ansible_net_gather_subset list / elements=string	The list of fact subsets collected from the device Returned: always
ansible_net_hostname string	The configured hostname of the device Returned: always
ansible_net_image string	The image file the device is running Returned: always
ansible_net_interfaces dictionary	A hash of all interfaces running on the system Returned: when interfaces is configured
ansible_net_memfree_mb integer	The available free memory on the remote device in Mb Returned: when hardware is configured
ansible_net_memtotal_mb integer	The total memory on the remote device in Mb Returned: when hardware is configured
ansible_net_model string	The model name returned from the device Returned: always
ansible_net_neighbors dictionary	The list of LLDP neighbors from the remote device Returned: when interfaces is configured
ansible_net_python_version string	The Python version Ansible controller is using Returned: always
ansible_net_version string	The operating system version running on the remote device Returned: always

Authors

• Ricardo Carrillo Cruz (@rcarrillocruz)

• Nilashish Chakraborty (@Nilashishc)

Collection links

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