cv_facts

cv_facts

Collect facts from CloudVision Portal.

Module added in version 1.0.0

Synopsis

Returns list of devices, configlets, containers and images

Module-specific Options

The following options may be specified for this module:

parameter	type	required	default	choices	comments
gather_subset	list	False	[‘default’]	default config tasks_pending tasks_failed tasks_all	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.
facts	list	False	[‘all’]	all devices containers configlets tasks	List of facts to retrieve from CVP. By default, cv_facts returns facts for devices, configlets, containers, and tasks. Using this parameter allows user to limit scope to a subset of information.

Examples

---
  tasks:
    - name: '#01 - Collect devices facts from {{inventory_hostname}}'
      cv_facts:
        facts:
          devices
      register: FACTS_DEVICES

    - name: '#02 - Collect devices facts (with config) from {{inventory_hostname}}'
      cv_facts:
        gather_subset:
          config
        facts:
          devices
      register: FACTS_DEVICES_CONFIG

    - name: '#03 - Collect confilgets facts from {{inventory_hostname}}'
      cv_facts:
        facts:
          configlets
      register: FACTS_CONFIGLETS

    - name: '#04 - Collect containers facts from {{inventory_hostname}}'
      cv_facts:
        facts:
          containers
      register: FACTS_CONTAINERS

    - name: '#10 - Collect ALL facts from {{inventory_hostname}}'
      cv_facts:
      register: FACTS

For a complete list of examples, check them out on our GitHub repository.

Module output

Example output

ansible_facts:
  cvp_info:
    editable: 2023.1.1
  configlets:
    - name: ANSIBLE_TESTING_CONTAINER
      isDefault: 'no'
      config: alias a57 show version
      reconciled: false
      netElementCount: 3
      editable: true
      dateTimeInLongFormat: 1574944821353
      isDraft: false
      note: '## Managed by Ansible ##'
      visible: true
      containerCount: 2
      user: cvpadmin
      key: configlet_3503_4572477104617871
      sslConfig: false
      devices:
        - veos01
        - veos03
...

Author

Ansible Arista Team (@aristanetworks)