Cisco IOS Collection

The Ansible Cisco IOS collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE network appliances.

This collection has been tested against Cisco IOS XE Version 17.3 on CML.

Support

As a Red Hat Ansible Certified Content, this collection is entitled to support through Ansible Automation Platform (AAP).

If a support case cannot be opened with Red Hat and the collection has been obtained either from Galaxy or GitHub, there is community support available at no charge.

You can join us on #network:ansible.com room or the Ansible Forum Network Working Group.

For more information you can check the communication section below.

Communication

• Join the Ansible forum:

  • Get Help: get help or help others.
  • Posts tagged with 'network': subscribe to participate in collection-related conversations.
  • Ansible Network Automation Working Group: by joining the team you will automatically get subscribed to the posts tagged with network.
  • Social Spaces: gather and interact with fellow enthusiasts.
  • News & Announcements: track project-wide announcements including social events.

• The Ansible Bullhorn newsletter: used to announce releases and important changes.

For more information about communication, see the Ansible communication guide.

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Ansible version compatibility

This collection has been tested against the following Ansible versions: >=2.16.0.

Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions. A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions. PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.

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Supported connections

The Cisco IOS collection supports network_cli connections. A detailed platform guide can be found here.

Included content

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Cliconf plugins

Name | Description --- | --- cisco.ios.ios|Use ios cliconf to run command on Cisco IOS platform

Modules

Name | Description --- | --- cisco.ios.ios_acl_interfaces|Resource module to configure ACL interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_acls|Resource module to configure ACLs. cisco.ios.ios_banner|Module to configure multiline banners. cisco.ios.ios_bfd_interfaces|Resource module to configure bfd in interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_bfd_templates|Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) templates configurations cisco.ios.ios_bgp_address_family|Resource module to configure BGP Address family. cisco.ios.ios_bgp_global|Resource module to configure BGP. cisco.ios.ios_command|Module to run commands on remote devices. cisco.ios.ios_config|Module to manage configuration sections. cisco.ios.ios_evpn_ethernet|Resource module to configure L2VPN EVPN Ethernet Segment. cisco.ios.ios_evpn_evi|Resource module to configure L2VPN EVPN EVI. cisco.ios.ios_evpn_global|Resource module to configure L2VPN EVPN. cisco.ios.ios_facts|Module to collect facts from remote devices. cisco.ios.ios_hostname|Resource module to configure hostname. cisco.ios.ios_hsrp_interfaces|Resource module to configure HSRP on interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_interfaces|Resource module to configure interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_l2_interfaces|Resource module to configure L2 interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_l3_interfaces|Resource module to configure L3 interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_lacp|Resource module to configure LACP. cisco.ios.ios_lacp_interfaces|Resource module to configure LACP interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_lag_interfaces|Resource module to configure LAG interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_lldp_global|Resource module to configure LLDP. cisco.ios.ios_lldp_interfaces|Resource module to configure LLDP interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_logging_global|Resource module to configure logging. cisco.ios.ios_ntp_global|Resource module to configure NTP. cisco.ios.ios_ospf_interfaces|Resource module to configure OSPF interfaces. cisco.ios.ios_ospfv2|Resource module to configure OSPFv2. cisco.ios.ios_ospfv3|Resource module to configure OSPFv3. cisco.ios.ios_ping|Tests reachability using ping from IOS switch. cisco.ios.ios_prefix_lists|Resource module to configure prefix lists. cisco.ios.ios_route_maps|Resource module to configure route maps. cisco.ios.ios_service|Resource module to configure service. cisco.ios.ios_snmp_server|Resource module to configure snmp server. cisco.ios.ios_static_routes|Resource module to configure static routes. cisco.ios.ios_system|Module to manage the system attributes. cisco.ios.ios_user|Module to manage the aggregates of local users. cisco.ios.ios_vlans|Resource module to configure VLANs. cisco.ios.ios_vrf|Module to configure VRF definitions. [cisco.ios.ios_vrf_address_family](https://github.com/ansible-