nxos_facts - Gets facts about NX-OS switches¶

New in version 2.1.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Collects facts from Cisco Nexus devices running the NX-OS operating system. Fact collection is supported over both Cli and Nxapi transports. 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.

Parameters ¶

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
gather_subset (added in 2.2)		Default: "!config"	When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all, hardware, config, legacy, 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			Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using `connection: network_cli`. This option is only required if you are using NX-API. For more information please see the NXOS Platform Options guide. A dict object containing connection details.
	username		Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the nxapi authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
	authorize bool (added in 2.5.3)	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.
	ssh_keyfile		Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for the cli transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE` will be used instead.
	use_proxy bool (added in 2.5)	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, the environment variables `http_proxy` and `https_proxy` will be ignored.
	auth_pass (added in 2.5.3)	Default: "none"	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.
	host required		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.
	timeout (added in 2.3)	Default: 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. NX-API can be slow to return on long-running commands (sh mac, sh bgp, etc).
	use_ssl bool	Choices: no ← yes	Configures the transport to use SSL if set to true only when the `transport=nxapi`, otherwise this value is ignored.
	password		Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This is a common argument used for either cli or nxapi transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
	validate_certs bool	Choices: no yes	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. If the transport argument is not nxapi, this value is ignored.
	port	Default: "0 (use common port)"	Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. This value applies to either cli or nxapi. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task. (cli=22, http=80, https=443).
	transport required	Default: "cli"	Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or nxapi.

Notes ¶

Note

Tested against NXOSv 7.3.(0)D1(1) on VIRL
For information on using CLI and NX-API see the NXOS Platform Options guide
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 ¶

- nxos_facts:
    gather_subset: all

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

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

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses list	when interfaces is configured	All IPv4 addresses configured on the device
ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses list	when interfaces is configured	All IPv6 addresses configured on the device
ansible_net_config str	when config is configured	The current active config from the device
ansible_net_filesystems list	when hardware is configured	All file system names available on the device
ansible_net_gather_subset list	always	The list of fact subsets collected from the device
ansible_net_hostname string	always	The configured hostname of the device
ansible_net_image string	always	The image file the device is running
ansible_net_interfaces dict	when interfaces is configured	A hash of all interfaces running on the system
ansible_net_memfree_mb int	when hardware is configured	The available free memory on the remote device in Mb
ansible_net_memtotal_mb int	when hardware is configured	The total memory on the remote device in Mb
ansible_net_model str	always	The model name returned from the device
ansible_net_neighbors dict	when interfaces is configured	The list of LLDP and CDP neighbors from the device. If both, CDP and LLDP neighbor data is present on one port, CDP is preferred.
ansible_net_serialnum str	always	The serial number of the remote device
ansible_net_version str	always	The operating system version running on the remote device
fan_info dict	when legacy is configured	A hash of facts about fans in the remote device
hostname dict	when legacy is configured	The configured hostname of the remote device
interfaces_list dict	when legacy is configured	The list of interface names on the remote device
kickstart str	when legacy is configured	The software version used to boot the system
module dict	when legacy is configured	A hash of facts about the modules in a remote device
platform str	when legacy is configured	The hardware platform reported by the remote device
power_supply_info str	when legacy is configured	A hash of facts about the power supplies in the remote device
vlan_list list	when legacy is configured	The list of VLAN IDs configured on the remote device

Status ¶

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

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as network which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Network Team, see here.

Support ¶

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author ¶

Jason Edelman (@jedelman8)
Gabriele Gerbino (@GGabriele)

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