cisco.ios.ios_linkagg – Manage link aggregation groups on Cisco IOS network devices

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.ios collection (version 2.6.0).

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.ios.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.ios.ios_linkagg.

New in version 1.0.0: of cisco.ios

Synopsis

• This module provides declarative management of link aggregation groups on Cisco IOS network devices.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Parameters

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
aggregate list / elements=dictionary			List of link aggregation definitions.
	group string / required		Channel-group number for the port-channel Link aggregation group. Range 1-255.
	members list / elements=string		List of members of the link aggregation group.
	mode string	Choices: active on passive auto desirable	Mode of the link aggregation group. On mode has to be quoted as 'on' or else pyyaml will convert to True before it gets to Ansible.
	state string	Choices: present absent	State of the link aggregation group.
group integer			Channel-group number for the port-channel Link aggregation group. Range 1-255.
members list / elements=string			List of members of the link aggregation group.
mode string		Choices: active on passive auto desirable	Mode of the link aggregation group. On mode has to be quoted as 'on' or else pyyaml will convert to True before it gets to Ansible.
provider dictionary			Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli. For more information please see the https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/platform_ios.html. A dict object containing connection details.
	auth_pass string		Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead.
	authorize boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead.
	host string		Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
	password string		Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.
	port integer		Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
	ssh_keyfile path		Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.
	timeout integer		Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
	username string		Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.
purge boolean		Choices: no ← yes	Purge links not defined in the aggregate parameter.
state string		Choices: present ← absent	State of the link aggregation group.

Notes

Note

• Tested against IOS 15.2

• This module works with connection network_cli. See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/platform_ios.html

• For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

• For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the Cisco integration page.

Examples

- name: create link aggregation group
  cisco.ios.ios_linkagg:
    group: 10
    state: present

- name: delete link aggregation group
  cisco.ios.ios_linkagg:
    group: 10
    state: absent

- name: set link aggregation group to members
  cisco.ios.ios_linkagg:
    group: 200
    mode: active
    members:
    - GigabitEthernet0/0
    - GigabitEthernet0/1

- name: remove link aggregation group from GigabitEthernet0/0
  cisco.ios.ios_linkagg:
    group: 200
    mode: active
    members:
    - GigabitEthernet0/1

- name: Create aggregate of linkagg definitions
  cisco.ios.ios_linkagg:
    aggregate:
    - {group: 3, mode: on, members: [GigabitEthernet0/1]}
    - {group: 100, mode: passive, members: [GigabitEthernet0/2]}

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
commands list / elements=string	always, except for the platforms that use Netconf transport to manage the device.	The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device Sample: ['interface port-channel 30', 'interface GigabitEthernet0/3', 'channel-group 30 mode on', 'no interface port-channel 30']

Authors

• Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)