community.network.pn_admin_syslog module – CLI command to create/modify/delete admin-syslog

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.pn_admin_syslog.

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to create the scope and other parameters of syslog event collection.

  • This module can be used to modify parameters of syslog event collection.

  • This module can be used to delete the scope and other parameters of syslog event collection.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

pn_cliswitch

string

Target switch to run the CLI on.

pn_host

string

Hostname to log system events.

pn_message_format

string

message-format for log events - structured or legacy.

Choices:

  • "structured"

  • "legacy"

pn_name

string

name of the system log.

pn_port

string

Host port.

pn_scope

string

Scope of the system log.

Choices:

  • "local"

  • "fabric"

pn_transport

string

Transport for log events - tcp/tls or udp.

Choices:

  • "tcp-tls"

  • "udp" ← (default)

state

string / required

State the action to perform. Use present to create admin-syslog and absent to delete admin-syslog update to modify the admin-syslog.

Choices:

  • "present"

  • "absent"

  • "update"

Examples

- name: Admin-syslog functionality
  community.network.pn_admin_syslog:
    pn_cliswitch: "sw01"
    state: "absent"
    pn_name: "foo"
    pn_scope: "local"

- name: Admin-syslog functionality
  community.network.pn_admin_syslog:
    pn_cliswitch: "sw01"
    state: "present"
    pn_name: "foo"
    pn_scope: "local"
    pn_host: "166.68.224.46"
    pn_message_format: "structured"

- name: Admin-syslog functionality
  community.network.pn_admin_syslog:
    pn_cliswitch: "sw01"
    state: "update"
    pn_name: "foo"
    pn_host: "166.68.224.10"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

changed

boolean

indicates whether the CLI caused changes on the target.

Returned: always

command

string

the CLI command run on the target node.

Returned: always

stderr

list / elements=string

set of error responses from the admin-syslog command.

Returned: on error

stdout

list / elements=string

set of responses from the admin-syslog command.

Returned: always

Authors

  • Pluribus Networks (@rajaspachipulusu17)