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eos_facts

Collection Note

This module is part of the arista.eos collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install arista.eos
Added in version 1.0.0.

Synopsis

  • Collects facts from Arista devices running the EOS operating system. This module places the facts gathered in the fact tree keyed by the respective resource name. 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 Defaults / Choices Comments
available_network_resources
bool
When 'True' a list of network resources for which resource modules are available will be provided.
gather_network_resources
list / elements=str
When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include all and the resources like interfaces, vlans etc. Can specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial C(!) to specify that a specific subset should not be collected. Values can also be used with an initial C(!) to specify that a specific subset should not be collected. Valid subsets are 'all', 'interfaces', 'l2_interfaces', 'l3_interfaces', 'lacp', 'lacp_interfaces', 'lag_interfaces', 'lldp_global', 'lldp_interfaces', 'vlans', 'acls'.
gather_subset
list / elements=str
Default: min
When supplied, this argument will restrict the facts collected to a given subset. Possible values for this argument include C(all), C(hardware), C(config), C(legacy), C(interfaces), and C(min). Can specify a list of values to include a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial C(!) to specify that a specific subset should not be collected.

Examples

- name: Gather all legacy facts
- arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset: all

- name: Gather only the config and default facts
  arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config

- name: Do not gather hardware facts
  arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - '!hardware'

- name: Gather legacy and resource facts
  arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    gather_network_resources: all

- name: Gather only the interfaces resource facts and no legacy facts
- arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - '!all'
      - '!min'
    gather_network_resources:
      - interfaces

- name: Gather all resource facts and minimal legacy facts
  arista.eos.eos_facts:
    gather_subset: min
    gather_network_resources: all

Return Values

Key Data Type Description Returned
ansible_net_all_ipv4_addresses list All IPv4 addresses configured on the device when interfaces is configured
ansible_net_all_ipv6_addresses list All IPv6 addresses configured on the device when interfaces is configured
ansible_net_api str The name of the transport always
ansible_net_config str The current active config from the device when config is configured
ansible_net_filesystems list All file system names available on the device when hardware is configured
ansible_net_fqdn str The fully qualified domain name of the device always
ansible_net_gather_network_resources list The list of fact for network resource subsets collected from the device when the resource is configured
ansible_net_gather_subset list The list of fact subsets collected from the device always
ansible_net_hostname str The configured hostname of the device always
ansible_net_image str The image file the device is running always
ansible_net_interfaces dict A hash of all interfaces running on the system when interfaces is configured
ansible_net_memfree_mb int The available free memory on the remote device in Mb when hardware is configured
ansible_net_memtotal_mb int The total memory on the remote device in Mb when hardware is configured
ansible_net_model str The model name returned from the device always
ansible_net_neighbors dict The list of LLDP neighbors from the remote device when interfaces is configured
ansible_net_python_version str The Python version Ansible controller is using always
ansible_net_serialnum str The serial number of the remote device always
ansible_net_version str The operating system version running on the remote device always

Authors

  • Peter Sprygada (@privateip)
  • Nathaniel Case (@qalthos)