Add Fabric Type: External Connectivity Network

[aj-cruz]

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Description

Unless I'm missing something there's no way to create a fabric type of External Connectivity Network

New or Affected modules(s):

• dcnm_fabric

DCNM version

• V 12.2.2.241

Potential ansible task config

- name: Merge External Connectivity Network fabric
  cisco.dcnm.dcnm_fabric:
    state: merged
    config:
    -   FABRIC_NAME: EXT-FABRIC
        FABRIC_TYPE: EXT
        BGP_AS: 65001

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[mikewiebe]

@aj-cruz Can you try again with FABRIC_TYPE: External? You should be able to create an External Conn Fabric

- name: Merge External Connectivity Network fabric
  cisco.dcnm.dcnm_fabric:
    state: merged
    config:
    -   FABRIC_NAME: EXT-FABRIC
        FABRIC_TYPE: External
        BGP_AS: 65001

[aj-cruz]

@mikewiebe Here's what I got:
{"changed": false, "msg": "Merged._verify_payload: Playbook configuration for fabric TEST-EXT contains an invalid FABRIC_TYPE (External). Valid values for FABRIC_TYPE: ['IPFM', 'ISN', 'LAN_CLASSIC', 'VXLAN_EVPN', 'VXLAN_EVPN_MSD']. Bad configuration: {'BGP_AS': 65555, 'FABRIC_NAME': 'TEST-EXT', 'FABRIC_TYPE': 'External'}.", "response": [{}], "result": [{}]}

[mikewiebe]

@aj-cruz Your right... sorry for the noise. We don't support this yet and I was mis-remembering that we have been creating it with the dcnm_rest module.

Supported types here

We will work on getting this added. Thanks for raising the issue!