ce_facts – Gets facts about HUAWEI CloudEngine switches¶
New in version 2.4.
Synopsis¶
- Collects facts from CloudEngine devices running the CloudEngine operating system.  Fact collection is supported over Cli transport.  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¶
Notes¶
Note
- Recommended connection is network_cli.
- This module also works with localconnections for legacy playbooks.
Examples¶
# Note: examples below use the following provider dict to handle
#       transport and authentication to the node.
- name: CloudEngine facts test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      port: "{{ ansible_ssh_port }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      transport: cli
  tasks:
  - name: "Gather_subset is all"
    ce_facts:
      gather_subset: all
      provider: "{{ cli }}"
  - name: "Collect only the config facts"
    ce_facts:
      gather_subset: config
      provider: "{{ cli }}"
  - name: "Do not collect hardware facts"
    ce_facts:
      gather_subset: "!hardware"
      provider: "{{ cli }}"
Return Values¶
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Status¶
- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]
Authors¶
- wangdezhuang (@QijunPan)
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