cisco.nxos.nxos_facts module – Gets facts about NX-OS switches

Note

This module is part of the cisco.nxos collection (version 5.3.0).

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 cisco.nxos.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.nxos.nxos_facts.

New in cisco.nxos 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Collects facts from Cisco Nexus devices running the NX-OS operating system. Fact collection is supported over both network_cli and httpapi. 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.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Aliases: facts

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

available_network_resources

boolean

When set to true a list of network resources for which resource modules are available will be provided.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

gather_network_resources

list / elements=string

When supplied, this argument will gather configuration facts only for the given subset. Can specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial ! to specify that a specific subset should not be collected.

Valid subsets are all, bfd_interfaces, lag_interfaces, telemetry, vlans, lacp, lacp_interfaces, interfaces, l3_interfaces, l2_interfaces, lldp_global, acls, acl_interfaces, ospfv2, ospfv3, ospf_interfaces, bgp_global, bgp_address_family, route_maps, prefix_lists, logging_global, ntp_global, snmp_server, hostname.

gather_subset

list / elements=string

When supplied, this argument will gather operational facts only for the given subset. Possible values for this argument include all, hardware, config, legacy, interfaces, and min. Can specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial ! to specify that a specific subset should not be collected.

Default: ["min"]

Notes

Note

  • Tested against NXOSv 7.3.(0)D1(1) on VIRL

  • Unsupported for Cisco MDS

  • For information on using CLI and NX-API see the :ref:`NXOS Platform Options guide <nxos_platform_options>`

  • For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the :ref:`Ansible Network Guide <network_guide>`

  • For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the `Cisco integration page <https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/cisco>`_.

Examples

- name: Gather all legacy facts
  cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
    gather_subset: all
- name: Gather only the config and default facts
  cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
    gather_subset:
    - config
- name: Do not gather hardware facts
  cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
    gather_subset:
    - '!hardware'
- name: Gather legacy and resource facts
  cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    gather_network_resources: all
- name: Gather only the interfaces resource facts and no legacy facts
  cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
    gather_subset:
    - '!all'
    - '!min'
    gather_network_resources:
    - interfaces
- name: Gather interfaces resource and minimal legacy facts
  cisco.nxos.nxos_facts:
    gather_subset: min
    gather_network_resources: interfaces

Return Values

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

Key

Description

ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses

list / elements=string

All IPv4 addresses configured on the device

Returned: when interfaces is configured

ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses

list / elements=string

All IPv6 addresses configured on the device

Returned: when interfaces is configured

ansible_net_api

string

The name of the transport

Returned: always

ansible_net_config

string

The current active config from the device

Returned: when config is configured

ansible_net_filesystems

list / elements=string

All file system names available on the device

Returned: when hardware is configured

ansible_net_gather_network_resources

list / elements=string

The list of fact for network resource subsets collected from the device

Returned: when the resource is configured

ansible_net_gather_subset

list / elements=string

The list of fact subsets collected from the device

Returned: always

ansible_net_hostname

string

The configured hostname of the device

Returned: always

ansible_net_image

string

The image file the device is running

Returned: always

ansible_net_interfaces

dictionary

A hash of all interfaces running on the system

Returned: when interfaces is configured

ansible_net_license_hostid

string

The License host id of the device

Returned: always

ansible_net_memfree_mb

integer

The available free memory on the remote device in Mb

Returned: when hardware is configured

ansible_net_memtotal_mb

integer

The total memory on the remote device in Mb

Returned: when hardware is configured

ansible_net_model

string

The model name returned from the device

Returned: always

ansible_net_neighbors

dictionary

The list of LLDP and CDP neighbors from the device. If both, CDP and LLDP neighbor data is present on one port, CDP is preferred.

Returned: when interfaces is configured

ansible_net_python_version

string

The Python version Ansible controller is using

Returned: always

ansible_net_serialnum

string

The serial number of the remote device

Returned: always

ansible_net_version

string

The operating system version running on the remote device

Returned: always

fan_info

dictionary

A hash of facts about fans in the remote device

Returned: when legacy is configured

hostname

dictionary

The configured hostname of the remote device

Returned: when legacy is configured

interfaces_list

dictionary

The list of interface names on the remote device

Returned: when legacy is configured

kickstart

string

The software version used to boot the system

Returned: when legacy is configured

module

dictionary

A hash of facts about the modules in a remote device

Returned: when legacy is configured

platform

string

The hardware platform reported by the remote device

Returned: when legacy is configured

power_supply_info

string

A hash of facts about the power supplies in the remote device

Returned: when legacy is configured

vlan_list

list / elements=string

The list of VLAN IDs configured on the remote device

Returned: when legacy is configured

Authors

  • Jason Edelman (@jedelman8)

  • Gabriele Gerbino (@GGabriele)