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nxos_vrrp - Manages VRRP configuration on NX-OS switches.

New in version 2.1.

Synopsis

  • Manages VRRP configuration on NX-OS switches.

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
admin_state
    Choices:
  • shutdown ←
  • no shutdown
  • default
Used to enable or disable the VRRP process.
authentication
Clear text authentication string or 'default' keyword
group
required
VRRP group number.
interface
required
Full name of interface that is being managed for VRRP.
interval
(added in 2.6)
Default:
yes
Time interval between advertisement or 'default' keyword
preempt
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Enable/Disable preempt.
priority
Default:
100
VRRP priority or 'default' keyword
provider
Deprecated
Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.
This option is only required if you are using NX-API.
For more information please see the NXOS Platform Options 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 either the CLI login or the nxapi authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.
 
ssh_keyfile
Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for the cli transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.
 
use_proxy
(added in 2.5)
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, the environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy will be ignored.
 
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.
 
timeout
(added in 2.3)
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. NX-API can be slow to return on long-running commands (sh mac, sh bgp, etc).
 
use_ssl
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Configures the transport to use SSL if set to true only when the transport=nxapi, otherwise this value is ignored.
 
password
Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This is a common argument used for either cli or nxapi transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.
 
validate_certs
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. If the transport argument is not nxapi, this value is ignored.
 
port
Default:
0 (use common port)
Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. This value applies to either cli or nxapi. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task. (cli=22, http=80, https=443).
 
transport
required
Default:
cli
Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or nxapi.
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Specify desired state of the resource.
vip
VRRP virtual IP address or 'default' keyword

Notes

Note

  • Tested against NXOSv 7.3.(0)D1(1) on VIRL
  • VRRP feature needs to be enabled first on the system.
  • SVIs must exist before using this module.
  • Interface must be a L3 port before using this module.
  • state=absent removes the VRRP group if it exists on the device.
  • VRRP cannot be configured on loopback interfaces.
  • For information on using CLI and NX-API see the NXOS Platform Options guide
  • 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: Ensure vrrp group 100 and vip 10.1.100.1 is on vlan10
  nxos_vrrp:
    interface: vlan10
    group: 100
    vip: 10.1.100.1

- name: Ensure removal of the vrrp group config
  # vip is required to ensure the user knows what they are removing
  nxos_vrrp:
    interface: vlan10
    group: 100
    vip: 10.1.100.1
    state: absent

- name: Re-config with more params
  nxos_vrrp:
    interface: vlan10
    group: 100
    vip: 10.1.100.1
    preempt: false
    priority: 130
    authentication: AUTHKEY

Return Values

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

Key
Returned
Description
commands
list
always
commands sent to the device

Sample:
['interface vlan10', 'vrrp 150', 'address 10.1.15.1', 'authentication text testing', 'no shutdown']


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

  • Jason Edelman (@jedelman8)
  • Gabriele Gerbino (@GGabriele)

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