pn_vlan – CLI command to create/delete a VLAN — Ansible Documentation

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# pn_vlan – CLI command to create/delete a VLAN

New in version 2.2.

- DEPRECATED
- Synopsis
- Parameters
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## DEPRECATED

Removed in Ansible:
| version: 2.12
Why: | Doesn’t support latest Pluribus Networks netvisor
Alternative: | Latest modules will be pushed in Ansible future versions.

## Synopsis

- Execute vlan-create or vlan-delete command.
- VLANs are used to isolate network traffic at Layer 2.The VLAN identifiers 0 and 4095 are reserved and cannot be used per the IEEE 802.1Q standard. The range of configurable VLAN identifiers is 2 through 4092.

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
pn_clipassword - |  | Provide login password if user is not root.
pn_cliswitch - | Default: "local" | Target switch(es) to run the cli on.
pn_cliusername - |  | Provide login username if user is not root.
pn_description - |  | Specify a description for the VLAN.
pn_ports - |  | Specifies the switch network data port number, list of ports, or range of ports. Port numbers must ne in the range of 1 to 64.
pn_scope - | Choices: fabric local | Specify a scope for the VLAN. Required for vlan-create.
pn_stats boolean | Choices: no yes | Specify if you want to collect statistics for a VLAN. Statistic collection is enabled by default.
pn_untagged_ports - |  | Specifies the ports that should have untagged packets mapped to the VLAN. Untagged packets are packets that do not contain IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tags.
pn_vlanid - / required |  | Specify a VLAN identifier for the VLAN. This is a value between 2 and 4092.
state - / required | Choices: present absent | State the action to perform. Use 'present' to create vlan and 'absent' to delete vlan.

## Examples

    - name: create a VLAN
      pn_vlan:
        state: 'present'
        pn_vlanid: 1854
        pn_scope: fabric

    - name: delete VLANs
      pn_vlan:
        state: 'absent'
        pn_vlanid: 1854

## Return Values

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

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
changed boolean | always | Indicates whether the CLI caused changes on the target.
command string | always | The CLI command run on the target node(s).
stderr list | on error | The set of error responses from the vlan command.
stdout list | always | The set of responses from the vlan command.

## Status

- This module will be removed in version 2.12. [deprecated]
- For more information see DEPRECATED.

### Authors

- Pluribus Networks (@amitsi)

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