vyos_logging - Manage logging on network devices¶

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

This module provides declarative management of logging on Vyatta Vyos devices.

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
aggregate		List of logging definitions.
dest	Choices: console file global host user	Destination of the logs.
facility		Set logging facility.
level		Set logging severity levels.
name		If value of `dest` is file it indicates file-name, for user it indicates username and for host indicates the host name to be notified.
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 logging configuration.

Notes ¶

Note

Tested against VYOS 1.1.7
For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

Examples ¶

- name: configure console logging
  vyos_logging:
    dest: console
    facility: all
    level: crit

- name: remove console logging configuration
  vyos_logging:
    dest: console
    state: absent

- name: configure file logging
  vyos_logging:
    dest: file
    name: test
    facility: local3
    level: err

- name: Add logging aggregate
  vyos_logging:
    aggregate:
      - { dest: file, name: test1, facility: all, level: info }
      - { dest: file, name: test2, facility: news, level: debug }
    state: present

- name: Remove logging aggregate
  vyos_logging:
    aggregate:
      - { dest: console, facility: all, level: info }
      - { dest: console, facility: daemon, level: warning }
      - { dest: file, name: test2, facility: news, level: debug }
    state: absent

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: ['set system syslog global facility all level notice']

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 ¶

Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)

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