dellos9_facts – Collect facts from remote devices running Dell EMC Networking OS9

Synopsis

• Collects a base set of device facts from a remote device that is running OS9. 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 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 dictionary			A dict object containing connection details.
	host string / 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 string		Password to authenticate the SSH session to the remote device. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.
	port integer	Default: 22	Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
	ssh_keyfile path		Path to an ssh key used to authenticate the SSH session to the remote device. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.
	timeout integer	Default: 10	Specifies idle timeout (in seconds) for the connection. Useful if the console freezes before continuing. For example when saving configurations.
	username string		User to authenticate the SSH session to the remote device. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.

Notes

Note

• This module requires OS9 version 9.10.0.1P13 or above.
• This module requires an increase of the SSH connection rate limit. Use the following command ip ssh connection-rate-limit 60 to configure the same. This can be also be done with the dellos9_config module.
• For more information on using Ansible to manage Dell EMC Network devices see https://www.ansible.com/ansible-dell-networking.

Examples

# Collect all facts from the device
- dellos9_facts:
    gather_subset: all

# Collect only the config and default facts
- dellos9_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

# Do not collect hardware facts
- dellos9_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_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_version string	always	The operating system 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 Community. [community]

Authors

• Dhivya P (@dhivyap)

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