community.network.ce_command module – Run arbitrary command on HUAWEI CloudEngine devices.

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 5.1.0).

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.network.

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

Note

The community.network collection has been deprecated and will be removed from Ansible 12. See the discussion thread for more information.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 6.0.0

Why:

This collection and all content in it is unmaintained and deprecated.

Alternative:

Unknown.

Synopsis

  • Sends an arbitrary command to an HUAWEI CloudEngine node and returns the results read from the device. The ce_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.cloudengine.ce_command

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

commands

string / required

The commands to send to the remote HUAWEI CloudEngine 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 been exceeded.

interval

string

Configures the interval in seconds to wait between retries of the command. If the command does not pass the specified conditional, the interval indicates how to 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.

Default: "all"

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 conditionals.

Default: 10

wait_for

string

Specifies what to evaluate from the output of the command and what conditionals to apply. This argument will cause the task to wait for a particular conditional to be true before moving forward. If the conditional is not true by the configured retries, the task fails. See examples.

Notes

Note

  • Recommended connection is network_cli.

  • This module also works with local connections for legacy playbooks.

Examples

# Note: examples below use the following provider dict to handle
#       transport and authentication to the node.

- name: CloudEngine command test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
    cli:
      host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      port: "{{ ansible_ssh_port }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      transport: cli

  tasks:
  - name: "Run display version on remote devices"
    community.network.ce_command:
      commands: display version
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

  - name: "Run display version and check to see if output contains HUAWEI"
    community.network.ce_command:
      commands: display version
      wait_for: result[0] contains HUAWEI
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

  - name: "Run multiple commands on remote nodes"
    community.network.ce_command:
      commands:
        - display version
        - display device
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

  - name: "Run multiple commands and evaluate the output"
    community.network.ce_command:
      commands:
        - display version
        - display device
      wait_for:
        - result[0] contains HUAWEI
        - result[1] contains Device
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

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

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 6.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • JackyGao2016 (@CloudEngine-Ansible)