cisco.nxos.nxos_nxapi module – Manage NXAPI configuration on an NXOS device.

Note

This module is part of the cisco.nxos collection (version 3.2.0).

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.nxos.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.nxos.nxos_nxapi.

New in cisco.nxos 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Configures the NXAPI feature on devices running Cisco NXOS. The NXAPI feature is absent from the configuration by default. Since this module manages the NXAPI feature it only supports the use of the Cli transport.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

http

aliases: enable_http

boolean

Controls the operating state of the HTTP protocol as one of the underlying transports for NXAPI. By default, NXAPI will enable the HTTP transport when the feature is first configured. To disable the use of the HTTP transport, set the value of this argument to False.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

http_port

integer

Configure the port with which the HTTP server will listen on for requests. By default, NXAPI will bind the HTTP service to the standard HTTP port 80. This argument accepts valid port values in the range of 1 to 65535.

Default: 80

https

aliases: enable_https

boolean

Controls the operating state of the HTTPS protocol as one of the underlying transports for NXAPI. By default, NXAPI will disable the HTTPS transport when the feature is first configured. To enable the use of the HTTPS transport, set the value of this argument to True.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

https_port

integer

Configure the port with which the HTTPS server will listen on for requests. By default, NXAPI will bind the HTTPS service to the standard HTTPS port 443. This argument accepts valid port values in the range of 1 to 65535.

Default: 443

provider

dictionary

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.

Starting with Ansible 2.6 we recommend using connection: httpapi for NX-API.

This option will be removed in a release after 2022-06-01.

For more information please see the https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/platform_nxos.html.

A dict object containing connection details.

auth_pass

string

Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead.

authorize

boolean

Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

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 is a common argument used for either cli or nxapi transports. 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. This value applies to either cli or nxapi. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task. (cli=22, http=80, https=443).

ssh_keyfile

string

Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for the cli transport. 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. NX-API can be slow to return on long-running commands (sh mac, sh bgp, etc).

transport

string

Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or nxapi.

Choices:

  • "cli" ← (default)

  • "nxapi"

use_proxy

boolean

If no, the environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy will be ignored.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

use_ssl

boolean

Configures the transport to use SSL if set to yes only when the transport=nxapi, otherwise this value is ignored.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

username

string

Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the nxapi authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. If the transport argument is not nxapi, this value is ignored.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

sandbox

aliases: enable_sandbox

boolean

The NXAPI feature provides a web base UI for developers for entering commands. This feature is initially disabled when the NXAPI feature is configured for the first time. When the sandbox argument is set to True, the developer sandbox URL will accept requests and when the value is set to False, the sandbox URL is unavailable. This is supported on NX-OS 7K series.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

ssl_strong_ciphers

boolean

Controls the use of whether strong or weak ciphers are configured. By default, this feature is disabled and weak ciphers are configured. To enable the use of strong ciphers, set the value of this argument to True.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

state

string

The state argument controls whether or not the NXAPI feature is configured on the remote device. When the value is present the NXAPI feature configuration is present in the device running-config. When the values is absent the feature configuration is removed from the running-config.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

tlsv1_0

boolean

Controls the use of the Transport Layer Security version 1.0 is configured. By default, this feature is enabled. To disable the use of TLSV1.0, set the value of this argument to True.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

tlsv1_1

boolean

Controls the use of the Transport Layer Security version 1.1 is configured. By default, this feature is disabled. To enable the use of TLSV1.1, set the value of this argument to True.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

tlsv1_2

boolean

Controls the use of the Transport Layer Security version 1.2 is configured. By default, this feature is disabled. To enable the use of TLSV1.2, set the value of this argument to True.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Notes

Note

  • Limited Support for Cisco MDS

  • For information on using CLI and NX-API see the :ref:`NXOS Platform Options guide <nxos_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

- name: Enable NXAPI access with default configuration
  cisco.nxos.nxos_nxapi:
    state: present

- name: Enable NXAPI with no HTTP, HTTPS at port 9443 and sandbox disabled
  cisco.nxos.nxos_nxapi:
    enable_http: false
    https_port: 9443
    https: yes
    enable_sandbox: no

- name: remove NXAPI configuration
  cisco.nxos.nxos_nxapi:
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

updates

list / elements=string

Returns the list of commands that need to be pushed into the remote device to satisfy the arguments

Returned: always

Sample: ["no feature nxapi"]

Authors

  • Peter Sprygada (@privateip)