cisco.nxos.nxos_banner module – Manage multiline banners on Cisco NXOS devices
Note
This module is part of the cisco.nxos collection (version 3.2.0).
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 cisco.nxos
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.nxos.nxos_banner
.
New in cisco.nxos 1.0.0
Synopsis
This will configure both exec and motd banners on remote devices running Cisco NXOS. It allows playbooks to add or remove banner text from the active running configuration.
Note
This module has a corresponding action plugin.
Parameters
Parameter |
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Specifies which banner that should be configured on the remote device. Choices:
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Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using Starting with Ansible 2.6 we recommend using This option will be removed in a release after 2022-06-01. For more information please see the https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/user_guide/platform_nxos.html. A dict object containing connection details. |
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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 |
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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 Choices:
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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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Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This is a common argument used for either cli or nxapi transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. This value applies to either cli or nxapi. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task. (cli=22, http=80, https=443). |
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Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for the cli transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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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. NX-API can be slow to return on long-running commands (sh mac, sh bgp, etc). |
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Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or nxapi. Choices:
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If Choices:
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Configures the transport to use SSL if set to Choices:
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Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the nxapi authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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If Choices:
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Specifies whether or not the configuration is present in the current devices active running configuration. Choices:
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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. |
Notes
Note
Since responses from the device are always read with surrounding whitespaces stripped, tasks that configure banners with preceeding or trailing whitespaces will not be idempotent.
Limited Support for Cisco MDS
For information on using CLI and NX-API see the :ref:`NXOS Platform Options guide <nxos_platform_options>`
For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the :ref:`Ansible Network Guide <network_guide>`
For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the `Cisco integration page <https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/cisco>`_.
Examples
- name: configure the exec banner
cisco.nxos.nxos_banner:
banner: exec
text: |
this is my exec banner
that contains a multiline
string
state: present
- name: remove the motd banner
cisco.nxos.nxos_banner:
banner: motd
state: absent
- name: Configure banner from file
cisco.nxos.nxos_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:
Key |
Description |
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The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device Returned: always Sample: |
Authors
Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)