Collecting Juniper device facts using Ansible

This recipe will provide you with a playbook to validate BGP on the Juniper core devices that you configured. You will retrieve operational state data using the junos_rpc module and then validate the data retrieved. Let’s get started by creating the playbook to validate our device facts:

1. Create a new playbook called pb_validate_facts.yml:

   root@cookbook-lab:~/cookbook-lab/chapters/ch05# vi pb_validate_facts.yml
   ---
   - name: “Collect and Validate Juniper Core Facts”
     hosts: “juniper_crpd”
     tasks:
       - name: “Collect BGP Facts Using RPC”
       junipernetworks.junos.junos_rpc: (1)
         rpc: get-bgp-summary-information
       register: bgp_information
       ...