mellanox.onyx.onyx_facts module – Collect facts from Mellanox ONYX network devices
Note
This module is part of the mellanox.onyx collection (version 1.0.0).
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 mellanox.onyx
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: mellanox.onyx.onyx_facts
.
Synopsis
Collects a base set of device facts from a ONYX Mellanox network devices 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 |
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When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all, version, module, and interfaces. Can specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial Default: |
Notes
Note
Tested against ONYX 3.6
Examples
---
- name: Collect all facts from the device
onyx_facts:
gather_subset: all
- name: Collect only the interfaces facts
onyx_facts:
gather_subset:
- interfaces
- name: Do not collect version facts
onyx_facts:
gather_subset:
- "!version"
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key |
Description |
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The list of fact subsets collected from the device Returned: always |
|
A hash of all interfaces running on the system Returned: when interfaces is configured |
|
A hash of all modules on the systeme with status Returned: when modules is configured |
|
A hash of all currently running system image information Returned: when version is configured or when no gather_subset is provided |