Cliconf Plugins¶
Cliconf plugins are abstractions over the CLI interface to network devices. They provide a standard interface for Ansible to execute tasks on those network devices.
These plugins generally correspond one-to-one to network device platforms. The appropriate cliconf plugin will
thus be automatically loaded based on the ansible_network_os
variable.
Adding cliconf plugins¶
You can extend Ansible to support other network devices by dropping a custom plugin into the cliconf_plugins
directory.
Using cliconf plugins¶
The cliconf plugin to use is determined automatically from the ansible_network_os
variable. There should be no reason to override this functionality.
Most cliconf plugins can operate without configuration. A few have additional options that can be set to impact how tasks are translated into CLI commands.
Plugins are self-documenting. Each plugin should document its configuration options.
Plugin list¶
You can use ansible-doc -t cliconf -l
to see the list of available plugins.
Use ansible-doc -t cliconf <plugin name>
to see detailed documentation and examples.
参见
- Ansible for Network Automation
- An overview of using Ansible to automate networking devices.
- User Mailing List
- Have a question? Stop by the google group!
- irc.freenode.net
- #ansible-network IRC chat channel