community.general.aireos_config (0.1.1) — module

Manage Cisco WLC configurations

Authors: James Mighion (@jmighion)

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Install collection

Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==0.1.1


Add to requirements.yml

  collections:
    - name: community.general
      version: 0.1.1

Description

AireOS does not use a block indent file syntax, so there are no sections or parents. This module provides an implementation for working with AireOS configurations in a deterministic way.

Usage examples

  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: configure configuration
  aireos_config:
    lines: sysname testDevice
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: diff the running-config against a provided config
  aireos_config:
    diff_against: intended
    intended: "{{ lookup('file', 'master.cfg') }}"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: load new acl into device
  aireos_config:
    lines:
      - acl create testACL
      - acl rule protocol testACL 1 any
      - acl rule direction testACL 3 in
    before: acl delete testACL
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: configurable backup path
  aireos_config:
    backup: yes
    lines: sysname testDevice
    backup_options:
      filename: backup.cfg
      dir_path: /home/user

Inputs

    
src:
    description:
    - Specifies the source path to the file that contains the configuration or configuration
      template to load.  The path to the source file can either be the full path on the
      Ansible control host or a relative path from the playbook or role root directory.  This
      argument is mutually exclusive with I(lines).

save:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - The C(save) argument instructs the module to save the running-config to startup-config.  This
      operation is performed after any changes are made to the current running config.  If
      no changes are made, the configuration is still saved to the startup config.  This
      option will always cause the module to return changed. This argument is mutually
      exclusive with I(save_when).
    - This option is deprecated as of Ansible 2.7, use C(save_when)
    type: bool

after:
    description:
    - The ordered set of commands to append to the end of the command stack if a change
      needs to be made.  Just like with I(before) this allows the playbook designer to
      append a set of commands to be executed after the command set.

lines:
    aliases:
    - commands
    description:
    - The ordered set of commands that should be configured. The commands must be the
      exact same commands as found in the device run-config.  Be sure to note the configuration
      command syntax as some commands are automatically modified by the device config
      parser.

match:
    choices:
    - line
    - none
    default: line
    description:
    - Instructs the module on the way to perform the matching of the set of commands against
      the current device config.  If match is set to I(line), commands are matched line
      by line. If match is set to I(none), the module will not attempt to compare the
      source configuration with the running configuration on the remote device.

backup:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - This argument will cause the module to create a full backup of the current C(running-config)
      from the remote device before any changes are made. If the C(backup_options) value
      is not given, the backup file is written to the C(backup) folder in the playbook
      root directory.  If the directory does not exist, it is created.
    type: bool

before:
    description:
    - The ordered set of commands to push on to the command stack if a change needs to
      be made.  This allows the playbook designer the opportunity to perform configuration
      commands prior to pushing any changes without affecting how the set of commands
      are matched against the system.

provider:
    description:
    - A dict object containing connection details.
    suboptions:
      host:
        description:
        - Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over
          the specified transport.
        - The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
        required: true
        type: str
      password:
        description:
        - Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device.
        - This value is used to authenticate the SSH session.
        - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable
          C(ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD) will be used instead.
        type: str
      port:
        default: 22
        description:
        - Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
        type: int
      ssh_keyfile:
        description:
        - Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device.
        - This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session.
        - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable
          C(ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE) will be used instead.
        type: path
      timeout:
        default: 10
        description:
        - Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for
          either connecting or sending commands.
        - If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will
          error.
        type: int
      username:
        description:
        - Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote
          device.
        - This value is used to authenticate the SSH session.
        - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable
          C(ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME) will be used instead.
        type: str

save_when:
    choices:
    - always
    - never
    - changed
    default: never
    description:
    - When changes are made to the device running-configuration, the changes are not copied
      to non-volatile storage by default.  Using this argument will change that.  If the
      argument is set to I(always), then the running-config will always be copied to the
      startup-config and the module will always return as changed. If the argument is
      set to I(never), the running-config will never be copied to the startup-config.  If
      the argument is set to I(changed), then the running-config will only be copied to
      the startup-config if the task has made a change.

diff_against:
    choices:
    - intended
    - running
    description:
    - When using the C(ansible-playbook --diff) command line argument the module can generate
      diffs against different sources.
    - When this option is configured as I(intended), the module will return the diff of
      the running-config against the configuration provided in the C(intended_config)
      argument.
    - When this option is configured as I(running), the module will return the before
      and after diff of the running-config with respect to any changes made to the device
      configuration.

backup_options:
    description:
    - This is a dict object containing configurable options related to backup file path.
      The value of this option is read only when C(backup) is set to I(yes), if C(backup)
      is set to I(no) this option will be silently ignored.
    suboptions:
      dir_path:
        description:
        - This option provides the path ending with directory name in which the backup
          configuration file will be stored. If the directory does not exist it will be
          first created and the filename is either the value of C(filename) or default
          filename as described in C(filename) options description. If the path value
          is not given in that case a I(backup) directory will be created in the current
          working directory and backup configuration will be copied in C(filename) within
          I(backup) directory.
        type: path
      filename:
        description:
        - The filename to be used to store the backup configuration. If the filename is
          not given it will be generated based on the hostname, current time and date
          in format defined by <hostname>_config.<current-date>@<current-time>
    type: dict

running_config:
    aliases:
    - config
    description:
    - The module, by default, will connect to the remote device and retrieve the current
      running-config to use as a base for comparing against the contents of source.  There
      are times when it is not desirable to have the task get the current running-config
      for every task in a playbook.  The I(running_config) argument allows the implementer
      to pass in the configuration to use as the base config for comparison.

intended_config:
    description:
    - The C(intended_config) provides the master configuration that the node should conform
      to and is used to check the final running-config against.   This argument will not
      modify any settings on the remote device and is strictly used to check the compliance
      of the current device's configuration against.  When specifying this argument, the
      task should also modify the C(diff_against) value and set it to I(intended).

diff_ignore_lines:
    description:
    - Use this argument to specify one or more lines that should be ignored during the
      diff.  This is used for lines in the configuration that are automatically updated
      by the system.  This argument takes a list of regular expressions or exact line
      matches.

Outputs

backup_path:
  description: The full path to the backup file
  returned: when backup is yes
  sample: /playbooks/ansible/backup/aireos_config.2016-07-16@22:28:34
  type: str
commands:
  description: The set of commands that will be pushed to the remote device
  returned: always
  sample:
  - hostname foo
  - vlan 1
  - name default
  type: list
updates:
  description: The set of commands that will be pushed to the remote device
  returned: always
  sample:
  - hostname foo
  - vlan 1
  - name default
  type: list