Question

A network engineer must run an Ansible playbook against a fleet of Cisco IOS-XE routers to audit only their OSPF-related running configuration. The playbook currently uses the cisco.ios.ios_facts module, but each run takes several minutes because it collects all device facts (hardware, interfaces, default config, etc.). The engineer wants to significantly reduce runtime while still retrieving enough data to inspect the OSPF configuration. Which change to the ios_facts task best achieves this?

Accepted Answer

Set gather_subset to '!all,!min' and add gather_network_resources to include only 'ospfv2'

Answer

Set gather_subset to 'all' so that OSPF facts are guaranteed to be present in the output

Answer

Remove the ios_facts task and use the raw module to execute 'show running-config | section ospf'

Answer

Set gather_facts: true at the play level and rely on Ansible's default fact caching