huawei-sw-interfaces_telnet

This ansible role gathering Huawei Switches interfaces information via telnet, the project is aiming to provide the same facts(ansible_net_interfaces) as cisco-ios.

Requirements

Ansible, git, python2

ansible version = 2.6.2
git version = 1.8.3.1-14
python2 version = 2.7.5
python2-pip version = 8.1.2-6
    re (python build-in) 
    sys (python build-in)
    json (python build-in)

Role Variables

{{ inventory_hostname }} auto defined according to your playbook yml file

Inside default/main.yml, you will find the variable to make this role useful:

{{ usr }} username of telnet credential
{{ pwd }} password of telnet credential

Change the variable in format "var: value", example as follows:

usr: username
pwd: password

Tree

├── defaults
│   └── main.yml
├── files
│   ├── facts
│   └── interfaces.py
├── handlers
│   └── main.yml
├── meta
│   └── main.yml
├── README.md
├── tasks
│   └── main.yml
├── temp
├── templates
├── tests
│   ├── inventory
│   └── test.yml
└── vars
    └── main.yml

Directories Hightlights

├── files
│   ├── facts
│   └── interfaces.py

/files: python scripts

/files/facts: information gathered storage

├── temp 

/temp: temporary storage for scripts

Installing

Refer to ansible glaxy installation guide(https://galaxy.ansible.com/)

Example Playbook

 - hosts: CN2_EU_Huawei_telnet
   gather_facts: false
   connection: local
   roles:
   - role: huawei-sw-interface_telnet                    

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Author Information

Chun Lau (https://github.com/ssunlau)