community.network.ce_interface – Manages physical attributes of interfaces on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.ce_interface.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Manages physical attributes of interfaces on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
admin_state string	up down	Specifies the interface management status. The value is an enumerated type. up, An interface is in the administrative Up state. down, An interface is in the administrative Down state.
description string		Specifies an interface description. The value is a string of 1 to 242 case-sensitive characters, spaces supported but question marks (?) not supported.
interface string		Full name of interface, i.e. 40GE1/0/10, Tunnel1.
interface_type string	ge 10ge 25ge 4x10ge 40ge 100ge vlanif loopback meth eth-trunk nve tunnel ethernet fcoe-port fabric-port stack-port null	Interface type to be configured from the device.
l2sub boolean	no ← yes	Specifies whether the interface is a Layer 2 sub-interface.
mode string	layer2 layer3	Manage Layer 2 or Layer 3 state of the interface.
state string	present ← absent default	Specify desired state of the resource.

Notes

Note

This module is also used to create logical interfaces such as vlanif and loopbacks.
This module requires the netconf system service be enabled on the remote device being managed.
Recommended connection is netconf.
This module also works with local connections for legacy playbooks.

Examples

- name: Interface module test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      port: "{{ ansible_ssh_port }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      transport: cli

  tasks:
  - name: Ensure an interface is a Layer 3 port and that it has the proper description
    community.network.ce_interface:
      interface: 10GE1/0/22
      description: 'Configured by Ansible'
      mode: layer3
      provider: '{{ cli }}'

  - name: Admin down an interface
    community.network.ce_interface:
      interface: 10GE1/0/22
      admin_state: down
      provider: '{{ cli }}'

  - name: Remove all tunnel interfaces
    community.network.ce_interface:
      interface_type: tunnel
      state: absent
      provider: '{{ cli }}'

  - name: Remove all logical interfaces
    community.network.ce_interface:
      interface_type: '{{ item }}'
      state: absent
      provider: '{{ cli }}'
    with_items:
      - loopback
      - eth-trunk
      - nve

  - name: Admin up all 10GE interfaces
    community.network.ce_interface:
      interface_type: 10GE
      admin_state: up
      provider: '{{ cli }}'

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
changed boolean	always	check to see if a change was made on the device Sample: True
end_state dictionary	always	k/v pairs of switchport after module execution Sample: {'admin_state': 'down', 'description': 'None', 'interface': '10GE1/0/10', 'mode': 'layer2'}
existing dictionary	always	k/v pairs of existing switchport Sample: {'admin_state': 'up', 'description': 'None', 'interface': '10GE1/0/10', 'mode': 'layer2'}
proposed dictionary	always	k/v pairs of parameters passed into module Sample: {'admin_state': 'down', 'interface': '10GE1/0/10'}
updates list / elements=string	always	command list sent to the device Sample: ['interface 10GE1/0/10', 'shutdown']

Authors

QijunPan (@QijunPan)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/network/ce_interface_module.html