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ce_bfd_session - Manages BFD session configuration on HUAWEI CloudEngine devices.

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • Manages BFD session configuration, creates a BFD session or deletes a specified BFD session on HUAWEI CloudEngine devices.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
addr_type
 no
  • ipv4
Specifies the peer IP address type.
create_type
 no
  • static
  • auto
BFD session creation mode, the currently created BFD session only supports static or static auto-negotiation mode.
dest_addr
 no
Specifies the peer IP address bound to the BFD session.
out_if_name
 no
Specifies the type and number of the interface bound to the BFD session.
session_name
 yes
Specifies the name of a BFD session. The value is a string of 1 to 15 case-sensitive characters without spaces.
src_addr
 no
Indicates the source IP address carried in BFD packets.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
Determines whether the config should be present or not on the device.
use_default_ip
 no
Indicates the default multicast IP address that is bound to a BFD session. By default, BFD uses the multicast IP address 224.0.0.184. You can set the multicast IP address by running the default-ip-address command. The value is a bool type.
vrf_name
 no
Specifies the name of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) instance that is bound to a BFD session. The value is a string of 1 to 31 case-sensitive characters, spaces not supported. When double quotation marks are used around the string, spaces are allowed in the string. The value _public_ is reserved and cannot be used as the VPN instance name.

Examples

- name: bfd session module test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      port: "{{ ansible_ssh_port }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      transport: cli

  tasks:
  - name: Configuring Single-hop BFD for Detecting Faults on a Layer 2 Link
    ce_bfd_session:
      session_name: bfd_l2link
      use_default_ip: true
      out_if_name: 10GE1/0/1
      provider: '{{ cli }}'

  - name: Configuring Single-Hop BFD on a VLANIF Interface
    ce_bfd_session:
      session_name: bfd_vlanif
      dest_addr: 10.1.1.6
      out_if_name: Vlanif100
      provider: '{{ cli }}'

  - name: Configuring Multi-Hop BFD
    ce_bfd_session:
      session_name: bfd_multi_hop
      dest_addr: 10.1.1.1
      provider: '{{ cli }}'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
end_state
k/v pairs of configuration after module execution
 always dict {'session': {'addrType': 'IPV4', 'vrfName': None, 'outIfName': '10GE1/0/1', 'useDefaultIp': 'true', 'createType': 'SESS_STATIC', 'srcAddr': None, 'destAddr': None, 'sessName': 'bfd_l2link'}}
changed
check to see if a change was made on the device
 always boolean True
updates
commands sent to the device
 always list ['bfd bfd_l2link bind peer-ip default-ip interface 10ge1/0/1']
proposed
k/v pairs of parameters passed into module
 always dict {'src_addr': None, 'out_if_name': '10GE1/0/1', 'state': 'present', 'dest_addr': None, 'vrf_name': None, 'create_type': None, 'session_name': 'bfd_l2link', 'use_default_ip': True, 'addr_type': None}
existing
k/v pairs of existing configuration
 always dict {'session': {}}

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2017 Michael DeHaan
© 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/ce_bfd_session_module.html