community.network.enos_command module – Run arbitrary commands on Lenovo ENOS devices

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 5.0.2).

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 community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.enos_command.

Synopsis

  • Sends arbitrary commands to an ENOS node and returns the results read from the device. The enos_command module includes an argument that will cause the module to wait for a specific condition before returning or timing out if the condition is not met.

Aliases: network.enos.enos_command

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auth_pass

string

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.

authorize

boolean

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.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

commands

string / required

List of commands to send to the remote device over the configured provider. The resulting output from the command is returned. If the wait_for argument is provided, the module is not returned until the condition is satisfied or the number of retires as expired.

interval

string

Configures the interval in seconds to wait between retries of the command. If the command does not pass the specified conditions, the interval indicates how long to wait before trying the command again.

Default: 1

match

string

The match argument is used in conjunction with the wait_for argument to specify the match policy. Valid values are all or any. If the value is set to all then all conditionals in the wait_for must be satisfied. If the value is set to any then only one of the values must be satisfied.

Choices:

  • "any"

  • "all" ← (default)

retries

string

Specifies the number of retries a command should by tried before it is considered failed. The command is run on the target device every retry and evaluated against the wait_for conditions.

Default: 10

wait_for

string

List of conditions to evaluate against the output of the command. The task will wait for each condition to be true before moving forward. If the conditional is not true within the configured number of retries, the task fails. See examples.

Examples

---
- name: Test contains operator
  community.network.enos_command:
    commands:
      - show version
      - show system memory
    wait_for:
      - "result[0] contains 'Lenovo'"
      - "result[1] contains 'MemFree'"
  register: result

- ansible.builtin.assert:
    that:
      - "result.changed == false"
      - "result.stdout is defined"

- name: Get output for single command
  community.network.enos_command:
    commands: ['show version']
  register: result

- ansible.builtin.assert:
    that:
      - "result.changed == false"
      - "result.stdout is defined"

- name: Get output for multiple commands
  community.network.enos_command:
    commands:
      - show version
      - show interface information
  register: result

- ansible.builtin.assert:
    that:
      - "result.changed == false"
      - "result.stdout is defined"
      - "result.stdout | length == 2"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

failed_conditions

list / elements=string

the conditionals that failed

Returned: failed

Sample: ["...", "..."]

stdout

list / elements=string

the set of responses from the commands

Returned: always

Sample: ["...", "..."]

stdout_lines

list / elements=string

The value of stdout split into a list

Returned: always

Sample: [["...", "..."], ["..."], ["..."]]

Authors

  • Anil Kumar Muraleedharan (@amuraleedhar)