community.routeros.command module – Run commands on remote devices running MikroTik RouterOS

Note

This module is part of the community.routeros collection (version 3.1.0).

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 community.routeros.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.routeros.command.

Synopsis

  • Sends arbitrary commands to an RouterOS node and returns the results read from the device. This 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.

  • The module always indicates a (changed) status. You can use the changed_when task property to determine whether a command task actually resulted in a change or not.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

commands

list / elements=string / required

List of commands to send to the remote RouterOS 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 retries has expired.

interval

integer

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

integer

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

list / elements=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.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Before community.routeros 3.0.0, the module claimed to support check mode. It simply executed the command in check mode.

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

platform

Platform: RouterOS

Target OS/families that can be operated against.

See Also

See also

How to connect to RouterOS devices with SSH

How to connect to RouterOS devices with SSH

How to quote and unquote commands and arguments

How to quote and unquote commands and arguments

Examples

- name: Run command on remote devices
  community.routeros.command:
    commands: /system routerboard print

- name: Run command and check to see if output contains routeros
  community.routeros.command:
    commands: /system resource print
    wait_for: result[0] contains MikroTik

- name: Run multiple commands on remote nodes
  community.routeros.command:
    commands:
      - /system routerboard print
      - /system identity print

- name: Run multiple commands and evaluate the output
  community.routeros.command:
    commands:
      - /system routerboard print
      - /interface ethernet print
    wait_for:
      - result[0] contains x86
      - result[1] contains ether1

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 list of conditionals that have failed

Returned: failed

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

stdout

list / elements=string

The set of responses from the commands

Returned: always apart from low level errors (such as action plugin)

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

stdout_lines

list / elements=string

The value of stdout split into a list

Returned: always apart from low level errors (such as action plugin)

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

Authors

  • Egor Zaitsev (@heuels)