Need ability to add interface description to vPC, portchannel, etc

[cobedien]

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Description

Need ability to add interface description to vPC, portchannel, etc

More specifically need the ability to add descriptions to the member interfaces

interface loopback0
description Routing loopback interface. <<<<>>>
ip address 10.11.0.2/32
ip router ospf UNDERLAY area 0.0.0.0
ip pim sparse-mode

New or Affected modules(s):

• dcnm_XXXXX

DCNM version

• V x.x.x

Potential ansible task config

# Copy-paste your ansible playbook

References

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[dionilde-costa]

Please have a look at this. Type, mode and admin_state are required but if I only want to change the description of the interface, it will actually replace those key's values by the default values.

Is there a workaround for this?

failed: [ndfc] (item=default - switch1 - Eth1/1) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": {"description": "new_desc", "mode": "routed", "name": "Eth1/1", "type": "eth"}, "msg": {"CHANGED": [{"debugs": [], "deferred": [], "delete_deploy": [], "deleted": [], "deploy": [{"fabricName": "default", "ifName": "Ethernet1/1", "serialNumber": "XXXXXXXXXXX"}], "merged": [{"interfaceType": "INTERFACE_ETHERNET", "interfaces": [{"fabricName": "default", "ifName": "Ethernet1/1", "interfaceType": "INTERFACE_ETHERNET", "nvPairs": {"ADMIN_STATE": "true", "CONF": "", "DESC": "new_desc", "INTF_NAME": "Ethernet1/1", "INTF_VRF": "default", "IP": "", "MTU": "9216", "PREFIX": "", "ROUTING_TAG": "", "SPEED": "Auto"}, "serialNumber": "XXXXXXXXXXX"}], "policy": "int_routed_host"}], "overridden": [], "query": [], "replaced": [], "skipped": []}], "DATA": [{"column": 0, "entity": "", "line": 0, "message": "Ethernet1/1 has policy attached from Ethernet1/1.Policy cannot be changed !!!", "reportItemType": "ERROR"}], "MESSAGE": "Internal Server Error", "METHOD": "PUT", "REQUEST_PATH": "https://192.168.1.1:443/appcenter/cisco/ndfc/api/v1/lan-fabric/rest/interface", "RETURN_CODE": 500}}