iosxr_system - Manage the system attributes on Cisco IOS XR devices¶

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

This module provides declarative management of node system attributes on Cisco IOS XR devices. It provides an option to configure host system parameters or remove those parameters from the device active configuration.

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

ncclient >= 0.5.3 when using netconf
lxml >= 4.1.1 when using netconf

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
domain_name		Configure the IP domain name on the remote device to the provided value. Value should be in the dotted name form and will be appended to the `hostname` to create a fully-qualified domain name.
domain_search		Provides the list of domain suffixes to append to the hostname for the purpose of doing name resolution. This argument accepts a list of names and will be reconciled with the current active configuration on the running node.
hostname		Configure the device hostname parameter. This option takes an ASCII string value.
lookup_enabled	Choices: no yes	Provides administrative control for enabling or disabling DNS lookups. When this argument is set to True, lookups are performed and when it is set to False, lookups are not performed.
lookup_source		The `lookup_source` argument provides one or more source interfaces to use for performing DNS lookups. The interface provided in `lookup_source` must be a valid interface configured on the device.
name_servers		The `name_serves` argument accepts a list of DNS name servers by way of either FQDN or IP address to use to perform name resolution lookups. This argument accepts wither a list of DNS servers See examples.
provider		Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using `connection: network_cli`. For more information please see the Network Guide. A dict object containing connection details.
username		Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
host 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.
ssh_keyfile		Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE` will be used instead.
timeout	Default: 10	Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
password		Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
port	Default: 22	Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
state	Choices: present ← absent	State of the configuration values in the device's current active configuration. When set to present, the values should be configured in the device active configuration and when set to absent the values should not be in the device active configuration
vrf (added in 2.5)		VRF name for domain services

Notes ¶

Note

Tested against IOS XRv 6.1.2
name-servers state=absent operation with netconf transport is a success, but with rpc-error. This is due to XR platform issue. Recommended to use ignore_errors option with the task as a workaround.
For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide
For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the Cisco integration page.

Examples ¶

- name: configure hostname and domain-name (default vrf=default)
  iosxr_system:
    hostname: iosxr01
    domain_name: test.example.com
    domain-search:
      - ansible.com
      - redhat.com
      - cisco.com
- name: remove configuration
  iosxr_system:
    hostname: iosxr01
    domain_name: test.example.com
    domain-search:
      - ansible.com
      - redhat.com
      - cisco.com
    state: absent
- name: configure hostname and domain-name with vrf
  iosxr_system:
    hostname: iosxr01
    vrf: nondefault
    domain_name: test.example.com
    domain-search:
      - ansible.com
      - redhat.com
      - cisco.com
- name: configure DNS lookup sources
  iosxr_system:
    lookup_source: MgmtEth0/0/CPU0/0
    lookup_enabled: True
- name: configure name servers
  iosxr_system:
    name_servers:
      - 8.8.8.8
      - 8.8.4.4

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
commands list	always	The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device Sample: ['hostname iosxr01', 'ip domain-name test.example.com']
xml list	always (empty list when no xml rpc to send)	NetConf rpc xml sent to device with transport `netconf` Sample: ['<config xmlns:xc="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0"> <ip-domain xmlns="http://cisco.com/ns/yang/Cisco-IOS-XR-ip-domain-cfg"> <vrfs> <vrf> <vrf-name>default</vrf-name> <lists> <list xc:operation="merge"> <order>0</order> <list-name>redhat.com</list-name> </list> </lists> </vrf> </vrfs> </ip-domain> </config>']

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Support ¶

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author ¶

Peter Sprygada (@privateip)
Kedar Kekan @kedarX

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