Dell EMC Ansible roles

The Dell EMC Ansible roles facilitate device provisioning running Dell EMC OS6, OS9, or OS10. This information describes the Dell EMC Ansible roles.

AAA role

The dellos-aaa role facilitates the configuration of authentication authorization acccounting (AAA), and supports the configuration of TACACS and RADIUS server and AAA.

Abstracted for OS6 OS10

ACL role

The dellos-acl role facilitates the configuration of an access control list (ACL). It supports the configuration of different types of ACLs (standard and extended) for both IPv4 and IPv6, and assigns the access-class to line terminals.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9

BGP role

The dellos-bgp role facilitates the configuration of border gateway protocol (BGP) attributes, and supports router ID, networks, neighbors, and maximum path configurations.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

Copy-config role

The dellos-copy-config role pushes the backup running configuration into a device. This role merges the configuration in the template file with the running configuration of the Dell EMC Networking device.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

DCB role

The dellos-dcb role facilitates the configuration of data center bridging (DCB), supports the configuration of DCB map and DCB buffer and assigns them to interfaces.

Abstracted for OS9

DNS role

The dellos-dns role facilitates the configuration of domain name service (DNS).

Abstracted for OS9

ECMP role

The dellos-ecmp role facilitates the configuration of equal cost multi-path (ECMP). It supports the configuration of ECMP for IPv4.

Abstracted for OS9

Flow-monitor role

The dellos-flow-monitor role facilitates the configuration of ACL flow-based monitoring attributes. Flow-based mirroring is a mirroring session in which traffic matches specified policies that are mirrored to a destination port. Port-based mirroring maintains a database that contains all monitoring sessions, including port monitor sessions.

Abstracted for OS10

Image-upgrade role

The dellos-image-upgrade role facilitates upgrades or installation of an OS10 software image.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

Interface role

The dellos-interface role facilitates the configuration of interface attributes. It supports the configuration of administrative state, description, MTU, IP address, IP helper, and port mode.

Abstracted for OS10

LAG role

The dellos-lag role facilitates the configuration of link aggregation group (LAG) attributes. This role supports the creation and deletion of a LAG and its member ports, and supports the configuration of type (static/dynamic), hash scheme, and minimum required link.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

LLDP role

The dellos-lldp role facilitates the configuration of link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) attributes at global and interface level. This role supports the configuration of hello, mode, multiplier, advertise tlvs, management interface, fcoe, iscsi at global and interface levels.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

Logging role

The dellos-logging role facilitates the configuration of global logging attributes, and supports the configuration of logging servers.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

NTP role

The dellos-ntp role facilitates the configuration of network time protocol attributes.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

Prefix-list role

The dellos-prefix-list role facilitates the configuration of a prefix-list, supports the configuration of IP prefix-list, and assigns the prefix-list to line terminals.

Abstracted for OS9

QoS role

The dellos-qos role facilitates the configuration of quality of service attributes including policy-map and class-map.

Abstracted for OS6 OS10

Route-map role

The dellos-route-map role facilitates the configuration of route-map attributes.

Abstracted for OS10

sFlow role

The dellos-sflow role facilitates the configuration of global and interface-level sflow attributes. This role supports the configuration of sflow collectors at the global level, enabling and disabling of sFlow and specification of sFlow polling-interval, sample-rate, max-datagram sizes, and so on are supported at interface and global levels.

Abstracted for OS9

SNMP role

The dellos-snmp role facilitates the configuration of global snmp attributes. It supports the configuration of SNMP server attributes like users, group, community, location, traps, and so on.

Abstracted for OS9 OS10

System role

The dellos-system role facilitates the configuration of global system attributes. This role specifically enables configuration of hostname, NTP server, and enables the password for dellos6, dellos9, and dellos10. dellos9 supports the configuration of the management route, hash alogrithm, clock, line terminal, banner and reload type.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

Users role

The dellos-users role facilitates the configuration of global system user attributes. This role supports the configuration of CLI users.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

VLAN role

The dellos-vlan role facilitates configuring virtual LAN (VLAN) attributes. This role supports the creation and deletion of a VLAN and its member ports.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

VLT role

The dellos-vlt role facilitates the configuration of the basics of virtual link trunking (VLT) to provide a loop-free topology.

Abstracted for OS9 OS10

VRF role

The dellos-vrf role facilitates the configuration of basic virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) that helps in the partition of physical routers to multiple virtual routers.

Abstracted for OS9

VRRP role

The dellos-vrrp role facilitates configuration of virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) attributes. This role supports the creation of VRRP groups for interfaces, and setting the VRRP group attributes.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

xSTP role

The dellos-xstp role facilitates the configuration of xSTP attributes. This role supports multiple version of spanning-tree protocol (STP), rapid spanning-tree (RSTP) protocol, multiple spanning-tree (MST), and per-VLAN spanning-tree (PVST). This role supports the configuration of bridge priority, enabling and disabling spanning-tree, creating and deleting instances, and mapping virtual LAN (VLAN) to instances.

Abstracted for OS6 OS9 OS10

VXLAN role

The dellos-vxlan role facilitates the configuration of virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) attributes. It supports the configuration of virtual networks, Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN), and network virtualization edge (NVE).

Abstracted for OS10

BFD role

The dellos-bfd This role facilitates the configuration of BFD global attributes, and is abstracted for dellos10. It specifically enables configuration of BFD interval , min_rx, multiplier, and role.

Abstracted for OS10

TEMPLATE role

The dellos-template This role facilitates the TEXTFSM parsing engine. TextFSM is a template based state machine . It takes the raw string input from the CLI of network devices dellos10 , run them through a TEXTFSM template and return structured text in the form of a Python dictionary.

Abstracted for OS10

Fabric-Summary role

The dellos_fabric_summary This role facilitates to get show system information of all the switches in the fabric.

Abstracted for OS10

Network-Validation role

The dellos_network_validation This role facilitates to verify the Networks. It validates networking features of wiring connection, BGP neighbors, MTU between neighbors and VLT pair.

Abstracted for OS10