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iosxr_facts - Collect facts from remote devices running IOS XR

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis

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

parameter required default choices comments
gather_subset
 no !config
When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all, hardware, config, and interfaces. 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.
provider
 no
A dict object containing connection details.
Dictionary object provider
parameter required default choices comments
username
 no
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.
host
 yes
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.
ssh_keyfile
 no
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
 no 10
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.
password
 no
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
 no 22
Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote. device.

Examples

# Collect all facts from the device
- iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset: all

# Collect only the config and default facts
- iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

# Do not collect hardware facts
- iosxr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - "!hardware"

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses
All IPv4 addresses configured on the device
 when interfaces is configured list
ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses
All IPv6 addresses configured on the device
 when interfaces is configured list
ansible_net_config
The current active config from the device
 when config is configured str
ansible_net_filesystems
All file system names available on the device
 when hardware is configured list
ansible_net_gather_subset
The list of fact subsets collected from the device
 always list
ansible_net_hostname
The configured hostname of the device
 always string
ansible_net_image
The image file the device is running
 always string
ansible_net_interfaces
A hash of all interfaces running on the system
 when interfaces is configured dict
ansible_net_memfree_mb
The available free memory on the remote device in Mb
 when hardware is configured int
ansible_net_memtotal_mb
The total memory on the remote device in Mb
 when hardware is configured int
ansible_net_neighbors
The list of LLDP neighbors from the remote device
 when interfaces is configured dict
ansible_net_version
The operating system version running on the remote device
 always str


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance Info

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