ansible.netcommon.napalm connection – Provides persistent connection using NAPALM

Note

This connection plugin is part of the ansible.netcommon collection (version 3.1.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.netcommon. You need further requirements to be able to use this connection plugin, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ansible.netcommon.napalm.

New in ansible.netcommon 1.0.0

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

major release after 2022-06-01

Why:

I am pretty sure no one has ever tried to use these modules

Alternative:

network_cli

Synopsis

  • This connection plugin provides connectivity to network devices using the NAPALM network device abstraction library. This library requires certain features to be enabled on network devices depending on the destination device operating system. The connection plugin requires napalm to be installed locally on the Ansible controller.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this connection.

  • napalm

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

host

string

Specifies the remote device FQDN or IP address to establish the SSH connection to.

Default: "inventory_hostname"

Configuration:

  • Variable: inventory_hostname

  • Variable: ansible_host

host_key_auto_add

boolean

By default, Ansible will prompt the user before adding SSH keys to the known hosts file. By enabling this option, unknown host keys will automatically be added to the known hosts file.

Be sure to fully understand the security implications of enabling this option on production systems as it could create a security vulnerability.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Configuration:

import_modules

boolean

Reduce CPU usage and network module execution time by enabling direct execution. Instead of the module being packaged and executed by the shell, it will be directly executed by the Ansible control node using the same python interpreter as the Ansible process. Note- Incompatible with asynchronous mode. Note- Python 3 and Ansible 2.9.16 or greater required. Note- With Ansible 2.9.x fully qualified modules names are required in tasks.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Configuration:

network_os

string

Configures the device platform network operating system. This value is used to load a napalm device abstraction.

Configuration:

  • Variable: ansible_network_os

password

string

Configures the user password used to authenticate to the remote device when first establishing the SSH connection.

Configuration:

  • Variable: ansible_password

  • Variable: ansible_ssh_pass

  • Variable: ansible_ssh_password

persistent_command_timeout

integer

Configures, in seconds, the amount of time to wait for a command to return from the remote device. If this timer is exceeded before the command returns, the connection plugin will raise an exception and close.

Default: 30

Configuration:

persistent_connect_timeout

integer

Configures, in seconds, the amount of time to wait when trying to initially establish a persistent connection. If this value expires before the connection to the remote device is completed, the connection will fail.

Default: 30

Configuration:

persistent_log_messages

boolean

This flag will enable logging the command executed and response received from target device in the ansible log file. For this option to work ‘log_path’ ansible configuration option is required to be set to a file path with write access.

Be sure to fully understand the security implications of enabling this option as it could create a security vulnerability by logging sensitive information in log file.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Configuration:

port

integer

Specifies the port on the remote device that listens for connections when establishing the SSH connection.

Default: 22

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [defaults]
remote_port = 22

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_PORT

  • Variable: ansible_port

private_key_file

string

The private SSH key or certificate file used to authenticate to the remote device when first establishing the SSH connection.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [defaults]
private_key_file = VALUE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE

  • Variable: ansible_private_key_file

remote_user

string

The username used to authenticate to the remote device when the SSH connection is first established. If the remote_user is not specified, the connection will use the username of the logged in user.

Can be configured from the CLI via the --user or -u options.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [defaults]
remote_user = VALUE

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER

  • Variable: ansible_user

timeout

integer

Sets the connection time, in seconds, for communicating with the remote device. This timeout is used as the default timeout value for commands when issuing a command to the network CLI. If the command does not return in timeout seconds, an error is generated.

Default: 120

Status

  • This connection will be removed in a major release after 2022-06-01. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Ansible Networking Team (@ansible-network)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.