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Cisco Nxos Collection Release Notes

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v9.0.0

Release Summary

Starting from this release, the minimum ansible-core version this collection requires is 2.15.0. The last known version compatible with ansible-core<2.15 is v8.1.0.

Major Changes

  • Bumping requires_ansible to >=2.15.0, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.

v8.1.0

Minor Changes

  • route_maps - support simple route-maps that do not contain set or match statements. it allows for the creation and management of purely basic route-map entries like 'route-map test-1 permit 10'.

Bugfixes

  • nxos_l3_interfaces - fail if encapsulation exists on a different sub-interface.
  • nxos_static_routes - correctly generate command when track parameter is specified.

v8.0.0

Major Changes

  • Updated the minimum required ansible.netcommon version to 6.1.0 to support the cli_restore module.

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

  • nxos_facts - correct parse JSON output when multiple interfaces have IPv6 address assigned (ansible-collections#771).

v7.0.0

Major Changes

  • This release removes four previously deprecated modules from this collection. Please refer to the Removed Features section for details.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • The nxos_logging module has been removed with this release.
  • The nxos_ntp module has been removed with this release.
  • The nxos_ntp_auth module has been removed with this release.
  • The nxos_ntp_options module has been removed with this release.

v6.0.3

Bugfixes

v6.0.2

Bugfixes

v6.0.1

Bugfixes

  • Prevents module_defaults from were being incorrectly applied to the platform action, instead of the concerned module.
  • nxos_file_copy - correctly set file_pull_timeout/persistent_command_timeout value.

v6.0.0

Release Summary

Starting from this release, the minimum ansible-core version this collection requires is 2.14.0. The last known version compatible with ansible-core<2.14 is v5.3.0.

Major Changes

  • Bumping requires_ansible to >=2.14.0, since previous ansible-core versions are EoL now.

v5.3.0

Minor Changes

  • nxos_config - Relax restrictions on I(src) parameter so it can be used more like I(lines). (ansible-collections#89).

v5.2.1

Bugfixes

Documentation Changes

  • nxos_acls - update examples and use YAML output in them for better readibility.

v5.2.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

Documentation Changes

  • Update examples for bgp_address_family resource modules using yaml callback plugin.
  • Update examples for bgp_global resource modules using yaml callback plugin.
  • Update examples for bgp_neighbor_address_family resource modules using yaml callback plugin.
  • Update examples for bgp_templates resource modules using yaml callback plugin.
  • Update examples for ospf_interfaces resource modules using yaml callback plugin.
  • Update examples for ospfv2 resource modules using yaml callback plugin.
  • Update examples for ospfv3 resource modules using yaml callback plugin.

New Modules

  • nxos_fc_interfaces - Fc Interfaces resource module

v5.1.0

Minor Changes

  • nxos_facts - add cpu utilization data to facts.

v5.0.0

Major Changes

  • Refer to Removed Features section for details.
  • This release removes four of the previously deprecated modules from this collection.

Minor Changes

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • The nxos_bgp module has been removed with this release.
  • The nxos_bgp_af module has been removed with this release.
  • The nxos_bgp_neighbor module has been removed with this release.
  • The nxos_bgp_neighbor_af module has been removed with this release.

Bugfixes

  • nxos_static_routes - Prevent action states to generate terminal configuration command.
  • nxos_static_routes - Update the delete operation of static routes to be similar to other platforms. (ansible-collections#666)

v4.4.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

  • l3_interfaces - Append tag when updating IP address with state replaced (ansible-collections#678).
  • ntp_global - Fix incorrect handling of prefer option (ansible-collections#670).
  • nxos_banner - Add support for a custom multiline delimiter
  • nxos_facts - Fix missing SVI facts (ansible-collections#440).
  • terminal - attempt privilege escalation only when prompt does not end with #

Documentation Changes

  • Fix docs of static-routes resource module.
  • nxos_interfaces - Fixed module documentation and examples.
  • nxos_l2_interfaces - Fixed module documentation and examples.
  • nxos_l3_interfaces - Fixed module documentation and examples.

v4.3.0

Release Summary

Re-releasing v4.2.0 of this collection since the previously build failed to upload in Automation Hub.

v4.2.0

Minor Changes

  • nxos_route_maps - add support for 'set ip next-hop <>' command in route-maps
  • nxos_vxlan_vtep - add support for 'advertise virtual-rmac' command under nve interface

Bugfixes

  • bgp - Fix parsing remote-as for Nexus 3K (ansible-collections#653).
  • facts - Attempt to execute json output commands with | json-pretty first and fall back to | json if unsupported. This is a temporary workaround until ansible/pylibssh#208 is fixed.
  • interfaces - Correctly enable/disable VLAN interfaces (ansible-collections#539).
  • route_maps - resolve route-map description parameter idempotency
  • snmp_server - fix community option to produce proper configuration with ipv4acl and ipv6acl.

v4.1.0

Minor Changes

  • nxos_acls - Support ICMPv6 option. Please refer to module doc for all new options (ansible-collections#624).
  • nxos_facts - Update facts gathering logic to ensure that gather_network_resources: all does not fail for NX-OS on MDS switches.
  • nxos_l2_interfaces - Add new mode dot1q-tunnel (ansible-collections#600).

Bugfixes

  • nxos_acls - Fix how IPv6 prefixes are converted to hosts (ansible-collections#623).
  • nxos_file_copy - stop prepending redundant bootflash: to remote file names
  • nxos_acls - Detect duplicate ACE error message from CLI and fail (ansible-collections#611).
  • nxos_command - Run & evaluate commands at least once even when retries is set to 0 (ansible-collections#607).

v4.0.1

Bugfixes

v4.0.0

Major Changes

  • Please use either of the following connection types - network_cli, httpapi or netconf.
  • This release drops support for connection: local and provider dictionary.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • This release removes the following deprecated plugins that have reached their end-of-life.
  • nxos_acl
  • nxos_acl_interface
  • nxos_interface
  • nxos_interface_ospf
  • nxos_l2_interface
  • nxos_l3_interface
  • nxos_linkagg
  • nxos_lldp
  • nxos_ospf
  • nxos_ospf_vrf
  • nxos_smu
  • nxos_static_route
  • nxos_vlan

v3.2.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

  • nxos_telemetry - Allow destination-group & sensor-group id to be strings.
  • nxos_telemetry - Allow sensor-group paths to be generated without additional properties.

v3.1.2

Bugfixes

  • nxos_facts - Fixes parsing of module info json data when TABLE_modinfo entry is a list (ansible-collections#559).

v3.1.1

Bugfixes

  • Fix issue with modules related to OSPF interfaces failing when the target NXOS device has subinterfaces.

v3.1.0

Minor Changes

  • nxos_snmp_server - Add support for localizedV2key (ansible-collections#415).
  • nxos_snmp_server - Add support for sha-256 based based user authentication.

Bugfixes

Documentation Changes

  • Updated documentation in nxos_snmp_server, nxos_ntp_global and nxos_logging_global modules to reflect which options are unsupported on MDS switches.

v3.0.0

Major Changes

  • The minimum required ansible.netcommon version has been bumped to v2.6.1.
  • Updated base plugin references to ansible.netcommon.
  • nxos_facts - change default gather_subset to min from !config (ansible-collections#418).
  • nxos_file_copy has been rewritten as a module. This change also removes the dependency on pexpect for file_pull operation. Since this now uses AnsibleModule class for argspec validation, the validation messages will be slighlty different. Expect changes in the return payload in some cases. All functionality remains unchanged.

Minor Changes

  • nxos_snmp_server - add support for BGP, OSPF and OSPFv3 traps.

Bugfixes

  • nxos_lag_interfaces - Fix KeyError with state overridden when port-channel has no members (ansible-collections#452).
  • nxos_ntp_global - correctly propagate CLI failure for non-existent auth keys (ansible-collections#467).
  • nxos_snmp_server - Properly handle corner cases for snmp-server user (ansible-collections#454).
  • snmp_server - Snmp contact/location and location were not gathered if containing whitespaces.

v2.9.1

Bugfixes

  • Fix action plugin redirection to make module defaults work properly.
  • Fix for nxos_vlans issue (ansible-collections#425).
  • nxos_ntp_global - Aliased vrf to use_vrf wherever applicable to maintain consistency with models for other platforms.
  • nxos_snmp_server - Add alias for community (ansible-collections#433)

Documentation Changes

  • Added notes in module docs to indicate supportability for Cisco MDS.

v2.9.0

Minor Changes

  • Add nxos_hostname resource module.

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • nxos_hostname - Hostname resource module.

v2.8.2

Release Summary

The v2.8.1 of the cisco.nxos collection is not available on Ansible Automation Hub. Please download and use v2.8.2 which also contains an additional bug fix.

Bugfixes

  • nxos_ntp_global - In some cases, there is an extra whitespace in the source-interface line. This patch accounts for this behaviour in config (ansible-collections#399).

v2.8.1

Bugfixes

  • nxos_acls - Fix incorrect parsing of remarks if it has 'ip/ipv6 access-list' in it.

v2.8.0

Minor Changes

  • Add nxos_snmp_server resource module.

Deprecated Features

  • Deprecated nxos_snmp_community module.
  • Deprecated nxos_snmp_contact module.
  • Deprecated nxos_snmp_host module.
  • Deprecated nxos_snmp_location module.
  • Deprecated nxos_snmp_traps module.
  • Deprecated nxos_snmp_user module.

New Modules

  • nxos_snmp_server - SNMP Server resource module.

v2.7.1

Bugfixes

  • nxos_acls - Updating an existing ACE can only be done with states replaced or overridden. Using state merged will result in a failure.
  • nxos_logging_global - Fix vlan_mgr not being gathered in facts (ansible-collections#380).
  • nxos_vlans - Fallback to json when json-pretty is not supported (ansible-collections#377).

v2.7.0

Minor Changes

  • nxos_telemetry - Add support for state gathered

Documentation Changes

  • Update README with information regarding MDS module testing.

v2.6.0

Minor Changes

  • Add nxos_ntp_global module.

Deprecated Features

  • Deprecated nxos_ntp, nxos_ntp_options, nxos_ntp_auth modules.

Bugfixes

  • nxos_acls - Fix traceback with 'port_protocol' range (ansible-collections#356)
  • nxos_facts - Fix KeyError while gathering CDP neighbor facts (ansible-collections#354).
  • nxos_ospf_interfaces - Correctly sort interface names before rendering.
  • nxos_vlans - switching to | json-pretty instead of | json as a workaround for the timeout issue with libssh (ansible/pylibssh#208)

Documentation Changes

  • ospf[v2, v3, _interfaces] - Area ID should be in IP address format.

New Modules

  • nxos_ntp_global - NTP Global resource module.

v2.5.1

Bugfixes

Documentation Changes

  • Added notes in module docs to indicate supportability for Cisco MDS.

v2.5.0

Minor Changes

  • Add nxos_logging_global resource module.

Deprecated Features

  • The nxos_logging module has been deprecated in favor of the new nxos_logging_global resource module and will be removed in a release after '2023-08-01'.

Bugfixes

  • Convert vlan lists to ranges in nxos_l2_interfaces (ansible-collections#95).
  • Do not expand direction 'both' into 'import' and 'export' for Nexus 9000 platforms (ansible-collections#303).
  • Prevent traceback when parsing unexpected line in nxos_static_routes.

Documentation Changes

  • Broken link in documentation fixed.

New Modules

  • nxos_logging_global - Logging resource module.

v2.4.0

Minor Changes

  • Add advertise_l2vpn_evpn option in nxos_bgp_address_family module (ansible-collections#302).
  • Add nxos_prefix_lists resource module.

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • nxos_prefix_lists - Prefix-Lists resource module.

v2.3.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

  • Fix how send_community attribute is handled in nxos_bgp_neighbor_address_family (ansible-collections#281).
  • Make passive_interface work properly when set to False.

New Plugins

Netconf

  • nxos - Use nxos netconf plugin to run netconf commands on Cisco NX-OS platform.

v2.2.0

Minor Changes

  • Add nxos_route_maps resource module.
  • Add support for ansible_network_resources key allows to fetch the available resources for a platform (ansible-collections#268).

New Modules

  • nxos_route_maps - Route Maps resource module.

v2.1.1

Bugfixes

  • For versions >=2.1.0, this collection requires ansible.netcommon >=2.0.1.
  • Re-releasing this collection with ansible.netcommon dependency requirements updated.

v2.1.0

Minor Changes

  • Add support for state purged in nxos_interfaces.

Security Fixes

  • Properly mask values of sensitive keys in module result.

Bugfixes

v2.0.0

Major Changes

  • Please refer to ansible.netcommon changelog for more details.
  • Requires ansible.netcommon v2.0.0+ to support ansible_network_single_user_mode and ansible_network_import_modules.

Minor Changes

  • Add bfd option for neighbors (ansible-collections#241).
  • Add hello_interval_ms option in nxos_pim_interface module to support sub-second intervals (ansible-collections#226).
  • Add nxos_bgp_address_family Resource Module.
  • Add nxos_bgp_neighbor_address_family Resource Module.
  • Add support df_bit and size option for nxos_ping (ansible-collections#237).
  • Adds support for single_user_mode command output caching.
  • Move nxos_config idempotent warning message with the task response under warnings key if changed is True

Deprecated Features

  • Deprecated nxos_bgp_af in favour of nxos_bgp_address_family resource module.
  • Deprecated nxos_bgp_neighbor_af in favour of nxos_bgp_neighbor_address_family resource module.

Bugfixes

  • Fail gracefully when BGP is already configured with a different ASN when states merged or replaced is used.
  • Fixes to nxos_logging, nxos_igmp_snooping, nxos_l3_interfaces, nxos_ospf_interfaces and nxos_static_routes to conform with latest CLI behaviour.
  • Properly configure neighbor timers and shutdown state (ansible-collections#240).

New Modules

  • nxos_bgp_address_family - BGP Address Family resource module.
  • nxos_bgp_neighbor_address_family - BGP Neighbor Address Family resource module.

v1.4.0

Minor Changes

  • Add echo_request option for ICMP.
  • Add nxos_bgp_global resource module.

Deprecated Features

  • Deprecated nxos_bgp and nxos_bgp_neighbor modules in favor of nxos_bgp_global resource module.

Security Fixes

  • Enable no_log for sensitive parameters in argspec.

Bugfixes

Documentation Changes

  • Fix error in host_reachability parameter's example where a default value is used, which the host_reachability parameter does not support. Improve descriptions of some parameters to be more explicit. Correct spelling and grammar where errors were noticed.

New Modules

  • nxos_bgp_global - BGP Global resource module.

v1.3.1

Bugfixes

v1.3.0

Minor Changes

  • Add nxos_ospf_interfaces resource module.

Deprecated Features

  • Deprecated nxos_interface_ospf in favor of nxos_ospf_interfaces Resource Module.

Bugfixes

  • Allow fex-fabric option for mode key (ansible-collections#166).
  • Fixes for nxos rpm issue (ansible-collections#173).
  • Update regex to accept the platform "N77" as supporting fabricpath.
  • Vlan config diff was not removing default values

New Modules

  • nxos_ospf_interfaces - OSPF Interfaces Resource Module.

v1.2.0

Minor Changes

  • Add nxos_ospfv3 module.
  • Allow other transfer protocols than scp to pull files from a NXOS device in nxos_file_copy module. sftp, http, https, tftp and ftp can be choosen as a transfer protocol, when the file_pull parameter is true..

Deprecated Features

  • Deprecated nxos_smu in favour of nxos_rpm module.
  • The nxos_ospf_vrf module is deprecated by nxos_ospfv2 and nxos_ospfv3 Resource Modules.

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • nxos_ospfv3 - OSPFv3 resource module

v1.1.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

v1.0.2

Release Summary

Rereleased 1.0.1 with updated changelog.

v1.0.1

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

v1.0.0

New Plugins

Cliconf

  • nxos - Use NX-OS cliconf to run commands on Cisco NX-OS platform

Httpapi

  • nxos - Use NX-API to run commands on Cisco NX-OS platform

New Modules

  • nxos_aaa_server - Manages AAA server global configuration.
  • nxos_aaa_server_host - Manages AAA server host-specific configuration.
  • nxos_acl - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manages access list entries for ACLs.
  • nxos_acl_interface - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manages applying ACLs to interfaces.
  • nxos_acl_interfaces - ACL interfaces resource module
  • nxos_acls - ACLs resource module
  • nxos_banner - Manage multiline banners on Cisco NXOS devices
  • nxos_bfd_global - Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) global-level configuration
  • nxos_bfd_interfaces - BFD interfaces resource module
  • nxos_bgp - Manages BGP configuration.
  • nxos_bgp_af - Manages BGP Address-family configuration.
  • nxos_bgp_neighbor - Manages BGP neighbors configurations.
  • nxos_bgp_neighbor_af - Manages BGP address-family's neighbors configuration.
  • nxos_command - Run arbitrary command on Cisco NXOS devices
  • nxos_config - Manage Cisco NXOS configuration sections
  • nxos_evpn_global - Handles the EVPN control plane for VXLAN.
  • nxos_evpn_vni - Manages Cisco EVPN VXLAN Network Identifier (VNI).
  • nxos_facts - Gets facts about NX-OS switches
  • nxos_feature - Manage features in NX-OS switches.
  • nxos_file_copy - Copy a file to a remote NXOS device.
  • nxos_gir - Trigger a graceful removal or insertion (GIR) of the switch.
  • nxos_gir_profile_management - Create a maintenance-mode or normal-mode profile for GIR.
  • nxos_hsrp - Manages HSRP configuration on NX-OS switches.
  • nxos_hsrp_interfaces - HSRP interfaces resource module
  • nxos_igmp - Manages IGMP global configuration.
  • nxos_igmp_interface - Manages IGMP interface configuration.
  • nxos_igmp_snooping - Manages IGMP snooping global configuration.
  • nxos_install_os - Set boot options like boot, kickstart image and issu.
  • nxos_interface - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manages physical attributes of interfaces.
  • nxos_interface_ospf - Manages configuration of an OSPF interface instance.
  • nxos_interfaces - Interfaces resource module
  • nxos_l2_interface - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manage Layer-2 interface on Cisco NXOS devices.
  • nxos_l2_interfaces - L2 interfaces resource module
  • nxos_l3_interface - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manage L3 interfaces on Cisco NXOS network devices
  • nxos_l3_interfaces - L3 interfaces resource module
  • nxos_lacp - LACP resource module
  • nxos_lacp_interfaces - LACP interfaces resource module
  • nxos_lag_interfaces - LAG interfaces resource module
  • nxos_linkagg - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manage link aggregation groups on Cisco NXOS devices.
  • nxos_lldp - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manage LLDP configuration on Cisco NXOS network devices.
  • nxos_lldp_global - LLDP resource module
  • nxos_lldp_interfaces - LLDP interfaces resource module
  • nxos_logging - Manage logging on network devices
  • nxos_ntp - Manages core NTP configuration.
  • nxos_ntp_auth - Manages NTP authentication.
  • nxos_ntp_options - Manages NTP options.
  • nxos_nxapi - Manage NXAPI configuration on an NXOS device.
  • nxos_ospf - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manages configuration of an ospf instance.
  • nxos_ospf_vrf - Manages a VRF for an OSPF router.
  • nxos_ospfv2 - OSPFv2 resource module
  • nxos_overlay_global - Configures anycast gateway MAC of the switch.
  • nxos_pim - Manages configuration of a PIM instance.
  • nxos_pim_interface - Manages PIM interface configuration.
  • nxos_pim_rp_address - Manages configuration of an PIM static RP address instance.
  • nxos_ping - Tests reachability using ping from Nexus switch.
  • nxos_reboot - Reboot a network device.
  • nxos_rollback - Set a checkpoint or rollback to a checkpoint.
  • nxos_rpm - Install patch or feature rpms on Cisco NX-OS devices.
  • nxos_smu - Perform SMUs on Cisco NX-OS devices.
  • nxos_snapshot - Manage snapshots of the running states of selected features.
  • nxos_snmp_community - Manages SNMP community configs.
  • nxos_snmp_contact - Manages SNMP contact info.
  • nxos_snmp_host - Manages SNMP host configuration.
  • nxos_snmp_location - Manages SNMP location information.
  • nxos_snmp_traps - Manages SNMP traps.
  • nxos_snmp_user - Manages SNMP users for monitoring.
  • nxos_static_route - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manages static route configuration
  • nxos_static_routes - Static routes resource module
  • nxos_system - Manage the system attributes on Cisco NXOS devices
  • nxos_telemetry - TELEMETRY resource module
  • nxos_udld - Manages UDLD global configuration params.
  • nxos_udld_interface - Manages UDLD interface configuration params.
  • nxos_user - Manage the collection of local users on Nexus devices
  • nxos_vlan - (deprecated, removed after 2022-06-01) Manages VLAN resources and attributes.
  • nxos_vlans - VLANs resource module
  • nxos_vpc - Manages global VPC configuration
  • nxos_vpc_interface - Manages interface VPC configuration
  • nxos_vrf - Manages global VRF configuration.
  • nxos_vrf_af - Manages VRF AF.
  • nxos_vrf_interface - Manages interface specific VRF configuration.
  • nxos_vrrp - Manages VRRP configuration on NX-OS switches.
  • nxos_vtp_domain - Manages VTP domain configuration.
  • nxos_vtp_password - Manages VTP password configuration.
  • nxos_vtp_version - Manages VTP version configuration.
  • nxos_vxlan_vtep - Manages VXLAN Network Virtualization Endpoint (NVE).
  • nxos_vxlan_vtep_vni - Creates a Virtual Network Identifier member (VNI)

Storage

  • nxos_devicealias - Configuration of device alias.
  • nxos_vsan - Configuration of vsan.
  • nxos_zone_zoneset - Configuration of zone/zoneset.