community.network.ce_acl_interface module – Manages applying ACLs to interfaces on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 4.0.2).

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_acl_interface.

Synopsis

  • Manages applying ACLs to interfaces on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

acl_name

string / required

ACL number or name. For a numbered rule group, the value ranging from 2000 to 4999. For a named rule group, the value is a string of 1 to 32 case-sensitive characters starting with a letter, spaces not supported.

direction

string / required

Direction ACL to be applied in on the interface.

Choices:

  • "inbound"

  • "outbound"

interface

string / required

Interface name. Only support interface full name, such as “40GE2/0/1”.

state

string

Determines whether the config should be present or not on the device.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

Notes

Note

  • Recommended connection is network_cli.

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

Examples

- name: CloudEngine acl interface 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: "Apply acl to interface"
    community.network.ce_acl_interface:
      state: present
      acl_name: 2000
      interface: 40GE1/0/1
      direction: outbound
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

  - name: "Undo acl from interface"
    community.network.ce_acl_interface:
      state: absent
      acl_name: 2000
      interface: 40GE1/0/1
      direction: outbound
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

changed

boolean

check to see if a change was made on the device

Returned: always

Sample: true

end_state

dictionary

k/v pairs of aaa params after module execution

Returned: always

Sample: {"acl interface": ["traffic-filter acl lb inbound", "traffic-filter acl 2000 outbound"]}

existing

dictionary

k/v pairs of existing aaa server

Returned: always

Sample: {"acl interface": "traffic-filter acl lb inbound"}

proposed

dictionary

k/v pairs of parameters passed into module

Returned: always

Sample: {"acl_name": "2000", "direction": "outbound", "interface": "40GE2/0/1", "state": "present"}

updates

list / elements=string

command sent to the device

Returned: always

Sample: ["interface 40ge2/0/1", "traffic-filter acl 2000 outbound"]

Authors

  • wangdezhuang (@QijunPan)