ios_facts – Collect facts from remote devices running Cisco IOS

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ios_facts – Collect facts from remote devices running Cisco IOS

New in version 2.2.


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.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

auth_pass

-

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli and become: yes with become_pass.

For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide.

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.

authorize

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli and become: yes.

For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide.

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.

gather_subset

-

Default:

"!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

-

Deprecated

Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.

For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide.

A dict object containing connection details.

auth_pass

-

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.

authorize

boolean

  • 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.

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.

password

-

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

-

Default:

22

Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.

ssh_keyfile

-

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

-

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.

username

-

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.



Notes

Note


Examples

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

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

# Do not collect hardware facts
- ios_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

string

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_filesystems_info

dictionary

when hardware is configured

A hash of all file systems containing info about each file system (e.g. free and total space)


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

dictionary

when interfaces is configured

A hash of all interfaces running on the system


ansible_net_memfree_mb

integer

when hardware is configured

The available free memory on the remote device in Mb


ansible_net_memtotal_mb

integer

when hardware is configured

The total memory on the remote device in Mb


ansible_net_model

string

always

The model name returned from the device


ansible_net_neighbors

dictionary

when interfaces is configured

The list of LLDP neighbors from the remote device


ansible_net_serialnum

string

always

The serial number of the remote device


ansible_net_stacked_models

list

when multiple devices are configured in a stack

The model names of each device in the stack


ansible_net_stacked_serialnums

list

when multiple devices are configured in a stack

The serial numbers of each device in the stack


ansible_net_version

string

always

The operating system version running on the remote device





Status

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

  • Peter Sprygada (@privateip)

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