community.network.ce_static_route module – Manages static route configuration on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 5.0.0).

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 community.network.

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

Synopsis

  • Manages the static routes on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

aftype

string / required

Destination ip address family type of static route.

Choices:

  • "v4"

  • "v6"

description

string

Name of the route. Used with the name parameter on the CLI.

destvrf

string

VPN instance of next hop ip address.

mask

string / required

Destination ip mask of static route.

next_hop

string

Next hop address of static route.

nhp_interface

string

Next hop interface full name of static route.

pref

string

Preference or administrative difference of route (range 1-255).

prefix

string / required

Destination ip address of static route.

state

string

Specify desired state of the resource.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

tag

string

Route tag value (numeric).

vrf

string

VPN instance of destination ip address.

Notes

Note

  • If no vrf is supplied, vrf is set to default.

  • If state=absent, the route will be removed, regardless of the non-required parameters.

  • This module requires the netconf system service be enabled on the remote device being managed.

  • Recommended connection is netconf.

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

Examples

- name: Static route module test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - name: Config a ipv4 static route, next hop is an address and that it has the proper description
    community.network.ce_static_route:
      prefix: 2.1.1.2
      mask: 24
      next_hop: 3.1.1.2
      description: 'Configured by Ansible'
      aftype: v4
  - name: Config a ipv4 static route ,next hop is an interface and that it has the proper description
    community.network.ce_static_route:
      prefix: 2.1.1.2
      mask: 24
      next_hop: 10GE1/0/1
      description: 'Configured by Ansible'
      aftype: v4
  - name: Config a ipv6 static route, next hop is an address and that it has the proper description
    community.network.ce_static_route:
      prefix: fc00:0:0:2001::1
      mask: 64
      next_hop: fc00:0:0:2004::1
      description: 'Configured by Ansible'
      aftype: v6
  - name: Config a ipv4 static route, next hop is an interface and that it has the proper description
    community.network.ce_static_route:
      prefix: fc00:0:0:2001::1
      mask: 64
      next_hop: 10GE1/0/1
      description: 'Configured by Ansible'
      aftype: v6
  - name: Config a VRF and set ipv4 static route, next hop is an address and that it has the proper description
    community.network.ce_static_route:
      vrf: vpna
      prefix: 2.1.1.2
      mask: 24
      next_hop: 3.1.1.2
      description: 'Configured by Ansible'
      aftype: v4

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 switchport after module execution

Returned: always

Sample: {"description": "testing", "mask": "24", "next_hop": "3.3.3.3", "pref": "100", "prefix": "192.168.20.0", "tag": "null"}

existing

dictionary

k/v pairs of existing switchport

Returned: always

Sample: {}

proposed

dictionary

k/v pairs of parameters passed into module

Returned: always

Sample: {"description": "testing", "mask": "24", "next_hop": "3.3.3.3", "pref": "100", "prefix": "192.168.20.642", "vrf": "_public_"}

updates

list / elements=string

command list sent to the device

Returned: always

Sample: ["ip route-static 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0 3.3.3.3 preference 100 description testing"]

Authors

  • Yang yang (@QijunPan)