ios_facts - Collect facts from remote devices running Cisco IOS¶

Synopsis¶

• Collects a base set of device facts from a remote device that is running IOS. 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.

Options¶

Examples¶

# Note: examples below use the following provider dict to handle
#       transport and authentication to the node.
---
vars:
  cli:
    host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    username: cisco
    password: cisco
    transport: cli

---
# Collect all facts from the device
- ios_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

# Collect only the config and default facts
- ios_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

# Do not collect hardware facts
- ios_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - "!hardware"
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

Return Values¶

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

Notes¶