Get partial facts if a device is not accessible.

aristanetworks / ansible-cvp

Ansible modules for Arista CloudVision

http://cvp.avd.sh

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Get partial facts if a device is not accessible. #104

Closed AJNOURI closed 4 years ago

AJNOURI commented 4 years ago

Hey @titom73

Might be related to #95

Issue Type

Question/feature request

Module Name

facts

OS / Environment

2018.2.5

Summary

We are testing the current modules on an IPFabric lab testbed, but one of the devices has authentication mode changed (through tacacs), so no more available with CVP username/login credentials; which makes the module facts fails with the device MAC.

Is it possible to still get the JSON output for all other devices and mention the ones failed? In case we want to exclude the failed machine from the deployment.

Thanks.

titom73 commented 4 years ago

Hello

Issue #95 is changing cv_facts behavior:

By default, facts do not collect configuration
You can explicitely collect this element with an optional keyword.

In the meantime, cv_facts extracts configuration from devices with a status set to "deviceStatus": "STREAMING" meaning offline devices and 3rd part devices are not collected.

If device is streaming and we can't connect to it to get configuration, we might think about a value like "CONFIG":"NOT AVAILABLE". Is that suitable for you ?

AJNOURI commented 4 years ago

Sorry for the late reply, Yes, "deviceStatus": "STREAMING" looks appropriate.

titom73 commented 4 years ago

If so, I will move forward and close this case.

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