community.network.cnos_banner – Manage multiline banners on Lenovo CNOS devices¶
Note
This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 1.3.2).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.network.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.cnos_banner.
Synopsis¶
This will configure both login and motd banners on remote devices running Lenovo CNOS. It allows playbooks to add or remote banner text from the active running configuration.
Parameters¶
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banner
string
/ required
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Specifies which banner should be configured on the remote device. In Ansible 2.8 and earlier only login and motd were supported.
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provider
string
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Deprecated
Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using
connection: network_cli.For more information please see the CNOS Platform Options guide.
A dict object containing connection details.
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auth_pass
string
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Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable
ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead. |
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authorize
boolean
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Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable
ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead. |
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host
string
/ required
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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.
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password
string
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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
ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead. |
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port
string
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Default: 22
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Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
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ssh_keyfile
string
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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
ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILEwill be used instead. |
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timeout
string
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Default: 10
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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.
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username
string
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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
ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead. |
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state
string
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Specifies whether or not the configuration is present in the current devices active running configuration.
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text
string
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The banner text that should be present in the remote device running configuration. This argument accepts a multiline string, with no empty lines. Requires state=present.
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Examples¶
- name: Configure the login banner
community.network.cnos_banner:
banner: login
text: |
this is my login banner
that contains a multiline
string
state: present
- name: Remove the motd banner
community.network.cnos_banner:
banner: motd
state: absent
- name: Configure banner from file
community.network.cnos_banner:
banner: motd
text: "{{ lookup('file', './config_partial/raw_banner.cfg') }}"
state: present
Return Values¶
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Authors¶
Anil Kumar Muraleedharan (@amuraleedhar)