ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc module – Execute operations on NETCONF enabled network devices.

Note

This module is part of the ansible.netcommon collection (version 7.1.0).

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 ansible.netcommon. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc.

New in ansible.netcommon 1.0.0

Synopsis

• NETCONF is a network management protocol developed and standardized by the IETF. It is documented in RFC 6241.

• This module allows the user to execute NETCONF RPC requests as defined by IETF RFC standards as well as proprietary requests.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• ncclient (>=v0.5.2)

• jxmlease

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
content string	This argument specifies the optional request content (all RPC attributes). The content value can either be provided as XML formatted string or as dictionary.
display string	Encoding scheme to use when serializing output from the device. The option json will serialize the output as JSON data. If the option value is json it requires jxmlease to be installed on control node. The option pretty is similar to received XML response but is using human readable format (spaces, new lines). The option value xml is similar to received XML response but removes all XML namespaces. Choices: "json" "pretty" "xml"
rpc string / required	This argument specifies the request (name of the operation) to be executed on the remote NETCONF enabled device.
xmlns string	NETCONF operations not defined in rfc6241 typically require the appropriate XML namespace to be set. In the case the request option is not already provided in XML format, the namespace can be defined by the xmlns option.

Notes

Note

• This module requires the NETCONF system service be enabled on the remote device being managed.

• This module supports the use of connection=netconf

• To execute get-config, get or edit-config requests it is recommended to use the Ansible netconf_get and netconf_config modules.

• This module is supported on ansible_network_os network platforms. See the :ref:`Network Platform Options <platform_options>` for details.

Examples

- name: lock candidate
  ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc:
    rpc: lock
    content:
      target:
        candidate:

- name: unlock candidate
  ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc:
    rpc: unlock
    xmlns: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0
    content: "{'target': {'candidate': None}}"

- name: discard changes
  ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc:
    rpc: discard-changes

- name: get-schema
  ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc:
    rpc: get-schema
    xmlns: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-netconf-monitoring
    content:
      identifier: ietf-netconf
      version: '2011-06-01'

- name: copy running to startup
  ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc:
    rpc: copy-config
    content:
      source:
        running:
      target:
        startup:

- name: get schema list with JSON output
  ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc:
    rpc: get
    content: |
      <filter>
        <netconf-state xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-netconf-monitoring">
          <schemas/>
        </netconf-state>
      </filter>
    display: json

- name: get schema using XML request
  ansible.netcommon.netconf_rpc:
    rpc: get-schema
    xmlns: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-netconf-monitoring
    content: |
      <identifier>ietf-netconf-monitoring</identifier>
      <version>2010-10-04</version>
    display: json

Return Values

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

Key	Description
output complex	Based on the value of display option will return either the set of transformed XML to JSON format from the RPC response with type dict or pretty XML string response (human-readable) or response with namespace removed from XML string. Returned: when the display format is selected as JSON it is returned as dict type, if the display format is xml or pretty pretty it is returned as a string apart from low-level errors (such as action plugin).
formatted_output string	Contains formatted response received from remote host as per the value in display format. Returned: success
stdout string	The raw XML string containing configuration or state data received from the underlying ncclient library. Returned: always apart from low-level errors (such as action plugin) Sample: "..."
stdout_lines list / elements=string	The value of stdout split into a list Returned: always apart from low-level errors (such as action plugin) Sample: ["...", "..."]

Authors

• Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn)

• Sven Wisotzky (@wisotzky)

Collection links

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• Repository (Sources)