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

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

• 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 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 -	Default: "!config"	When supplied, this argument restricts the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all, hardware, config, and interfaces. Specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Use a value with an initial ! to collect all facts except that subset.

Notes

Note

• Tested against FRR 6.0.

Examples

- name: Collect all facts from the device
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset: all

- name: Collect only the config and default facts
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

- name: Collect the config and hardware facts
  frr_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
      - hardware

- name: Do not collect hardware facts
  frr_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_api string	always	The name of the transport
ansible_net_config string	when config is configured	The current active config from 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_interfaces dictionary	when interfaces is configured	A hash of all interfaces running on the system
ansible_net_mem_stats dictionary	when hardware is configured	The memory statistics fetched from the device
ansible_net_mpls_ldp_neighbors dictionary	when interfaces is configured and LDP daemon is running on the device	The list of MPLS LDP neighbors from the remote device
ansible_net_python_version string	always	The Python version that the Ansible controller is using
ansible_net_version string	always	The FRR version running on the remote device

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. [network]

Red Hat Support

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

Authors

• Nilashish Chakraborty (@NilashishC)

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