cisco.iosxr.iosxr cliconf – Use iosxr cliconf to run command on Cisco IOS XR platform

Note

This cliconf plugin is part of the cisco.iosxr collection (version 5.0.3).

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.iosxr.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.iosxr.iosxr.

New in cisco.iosxr 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • This iosxr plugin provides low level abstraction apis for sending and receiving CLI commands from Cisco IOS XR network devices.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

commit_comment

string

Adds comment to commit confirmed..

Configuration:

commit_confirmed

boolean

enable or disable commit confirmed mode

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Configuration:

commit_confirmed_timeout

integer

Commits the configuration on a trial basis for the time specified in seconds or minutes.

Configuration:

commit_label

string

Adds label to commit confirmed.

Configuration:

config_commands

list / elements=string

added in cisco.iosxr 2.0.0

Specifies a list of commands that can make configuration changes to the target device.

When `ansible_network_single_user_mode` is enabled, if a command sent to the device is present in this list, the existing cache is invalidated.

Default: []

Configuration:

  • Variable: ansible_iosxr_config_commands

config_mode_exclusive

boolean

enable or disable config mode exclusive

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Configuration:

Notes

Note

  • IOSXR commit confirmed command varies with IOSXR version releases, commit_comment and commit_label may or may not be valid together as per the device version.

Examples

# Use commit confirmed within a task with timeout, label and comment

- name: Commit confirmed with a task
  vars:
    ansible_iosxr_commit_confirmed: True
    ansible_iosxr_commit_confirmed_timeout: 50
    ansible_iosxr_commit_label: TestLabel
    ansible_iosxr_commit_comment: I am a test comment
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_logging_global:
    state: merged
    config:
      buffered:
        severity: errors #alerts #informational
      correlator:
        buffer_size: 2024

# Commands (cliconf specific)
# ["commit confirmed 50 label TestLabel comment I am a test comment"]

# Use commit within a task with label

- name: Commit label with a task
  vars:
    ansible_iosxr_commit_label: lblTest
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_hostname:
    state: merged
    config:
      hostname: R1

# Commands (cliconf specific)
# ["commit label lblt1"]

# Use commit confirm with timeout and confirm the commit

# NOTE - IOSXR waits for a `commit` when the command
# executed is `commit confirmed <timeout>` within the timeout
# period for the config to commit successfully, else a rollback
# happens.

- name: Example commit confirmed
  vars:
    ansible_iosxr_commit_confirmed: True
    ansible_iosxr_commit_confirmed_timeout: 60
  tasks:
    - name: "Commit confirmed with timeout"
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_hostname:
        state: merged
        config:
          hostname: R1

    - name: "Confirm the Commit"
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_command:
        commands:
          - commit

# Commands (cliconf specific)
# ["commit confirmed 60"]

# Use exclusive mode with a task

- name: Configure exclusive mode with a task
  vars:
    ansible_iosxr_config_mode_exclusive: True
  cisco.iosxr.iosxr_interfaces:
    state: merged
    config:
      - name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2
        description: Configured via Ansible
      - name: GigabitEthernet0/0/0/3
        description: Configured via Ansible

# Commands (cliconf specific)
# ["configure exclusive"]

# Use Replace option with commit confirmed

# NOTE - IOSXR waits for a `commit` when the command
# executed is `commit replace confirmed <timeout>` within the timeout
# period for the config to commit successfully, else a rollback
# happens.
# This option is supported by only iosxr_config module

- name: Example replace config with commit confirmed
  vars:
    ansible_iosxr_commit_confirmed: True
    ansible_iosxr_commit_confirmed_timeout: 60
  tasks:
    - name: "Replace config with Commit confirmed"
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_config:
        src: 'replace_running_cfg_iosxr.txt'
        replace: config

    - name: "Confirm the Commit"
      cisco.iosxr.iosxr_command:
        commands:
          - commit

Authors

  • Ansible Networking Team (@ansible-network)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.