ansible.builtin.frr_facts (v2.9.27) — module

Collect facts from remote devices running Free Range Routing (FRR).

| "added in version" 2.8 of ansible.builtin"

Authors: Nilashish Chakraborty (@NilashishC)

preview | supported by network

Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.27

Description

Collects a base set of device facts from a remote device that is running FRR. This module prepends all of the base network fact keys with C(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.

Usage examples

  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Collect all facts from the device
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset: all
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Collect only the config and default facts
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Collect the config and hardware facts
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
      - hardware
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Do not collect hardware facts
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - "!hardware"

Inputs

    
gather_subset:
    default: '!config'
    description:
    - When supplied, this argument restricts the facts collected to a given subset.
    - Possible values for this argument include C(all), C(hardware), C(config), and C(interfaces).
    - Specify a list of values to include a larger subset.
    - Use a value with an initial C(!) to collect all facts except that subset.
    required: false

Outputs

ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses:
  description: All IPv4 addresses configured on the device
  returned: when interfaces is configured
  type: list
ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses:
  description: All IPv6 addresses configured on the device
  returned: when interfaces is configured
  type: list
ansible_net_api:
  description: The name of the transport
  returned: always
  type: str
ansible_net_config:
  description: The current active config from the device
  returned: when config is configured
  type: str
ansible_net_gather_subset:
  description: The list of fact subsets collected from the device
  returned: always
  type: list
ansible_net_hostname:
  description: The configured hostname of the device
  returned: always
  type: str
ansible_net_interfaces:
  description: A hash of all interfaces running on the system
  returned: when interfaces is configured
  type: dict
ansible_net_mem_stats:
  description: The memory statistics fetched from the device
  returned: when hardware is configured
  type: dict
ansible_net_mpls_ldp_neighbors:
  description: The list of MPLS LDP neighbors from the remote device
  returned: when interfaces is configured and LDP daemon is running on the device
  type: dict
ansible_net_python_version:
  description: The Python version that the Ansible controller is using
  returned: always
  type: str
ansible_net_version:
  description: The FRR version running on the remote device
  returned: always
  type: str