arista.eos.eos_facts module – Collect facts from remote devices running Arista EOS

Note

This module is part of the arista.eos collection (version 9.0.0).

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 arista.eos.

To use it in a playbook, specify: arista.eos.eos_facts.

New in arista.eos 1.0.0

Synopsis

• Collects facts from Arista devices running the EOS operating system. This module places the facts gathered in the fact tree keyed by the respective resource name. The facts module will always collect a base set of facts from the device and can enable or disable collection of additional facts.

Aliases: facts

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
available_network_resources boolean	When ‘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 restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all and the resources like interfaces, vlans etc. 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. Values can also be used with an initial ! to specify that a specific subset should not be collected. Valid subsets are ‘all’, ‘interfaces’, ‘l2_interfaces’, ‘l3_interfaces’, ‘lacp’, ‘lacp_interfaces’, ‘lag_interfaces’, ‘lldp_global’, ‘lldp_interfaces’, ‘vlans’, ‘acls’.
gather_subset list / elements=string	When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a 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"]

Examples

- name: Gather all legacy facts
- arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset: all

- name: Gather only the config and default facts
  arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

- name: Do not gather hardware facts
  arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - '!hardware'

- name: Gather legacy and resource facts
  arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    gather_network_resources: all

- name: Gather only the interfaces resource facts and no legacy facts
- arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - '!all'
      - '!min'
    gather_network_resources:
      - interfaces

- name: Gather all resource facts and minimal legacy facts
  arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset: min
    gather_network_resources: all

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_fqdn string	The fully qualified domain name of the device Returned: always
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_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 neighbors from the remote device 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

Authors

• Peter Sprygada (@privateip)

• Nathaniel Case (@Qalthos)

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