The Cumulux VX image comes completely unconfigured (save for the DHCP client configuration on the management port eth0). It has three switch ports, that is, swp1, swp2, and swp3. Let's query one of those interfaces to see whether there is any existing configuration. We can use a simple playbook called switch-query.yaml to query swp1:
---- name: query switch hosts: mastery-switch1 tasks: - name: query swp1 interface nclu: commands: - show interface swp1 register: interface - name: print interface status debug: var: interface
If we run this (exactly as we have run other playbooks), then we will see something like the following:
This confirms our initial statement about the VM image—we can see that the switch port is not ...
