eos_facts - Collect facts from remote devices running Arista EOS

• Synopsis
• Options
• Examples
• Return Values
• This is a Core Module

Synopsis

Collects a base set of device facts from a remote device that is running eos. 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.

Options

Examples

# Note: examples below use the following provider dict to handle
#       transport and authentication to the node.
vars:
  cli:
    host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    username: admin
    password: admin
    transport: cli

# Collect all facts from the device
- eos_facts:
    gather_subset: all
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

# Collect only the config and default facts
- eos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - config
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

# Do not collect hardware facts
- eos_facts:
    gather_subset:
      - "!hardware"
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

Return Values

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

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