I am a network engineer and new to Ansible automation, I am trying configure the Nexus switch interfaces as mentioned in the play book, I don't face issue getting result from ios_command module but issues is happening from ios_config module, I don't understand what is the issue, please help me,
I have pasted the playbook and error logs below:
---
---
- name: configure ethernet interface
hosts: nx-os
tasks:
- name: filter hostname
ios_command:
commands: "show run | inc hostname"
register: output
- name: configure interfaces
nxos_interface:
- name: "{{ item.name }}"
admin_state: up
duplex: full
speed: auto
with_items:
- name: Ethernet1/41
- name: Ethernet1/42
when: "'nx-os' in output.stdout[0]"
Error:
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: The TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS settings is set to allow bad characters in group names by default, this will change, but
still be user configurable on deprecation. This feature will be removed in version 2.10. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting
deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
[WARNING]: Invalid characters were found in group names but not replaced, use -vvvv to see details
ERROR! unexpected parameter type in action: <class 'ansible.parsing.yaml.objects.AnsibleSequence'>
The error appears to be in '/root/ansible/bkrishna/configure_interface.yml': line 12, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- name: Admin down an interface
^ here
The error message is pretty explicit:
ERROR! unexpected parameter type in action: <class 'ansible.parsing.yaml.objects.AnsibleSequence'>
there are no ansible modules that accept a list as their main configuration shape, although some do accept lists for individual keys
You will want this instead:
- name: configure interfaces
nxos_interface:
name: "{{ item.name }}"
admin_state: up
speed: auto
with_items:
- # as you had before ...
Related
---
- hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
vars:
var_folder_path: /home/play
tasks:
- name: Include all yaml files in directories
include_vars:
dir: "{{ var_folder_path }}/vars"
extensions:
- 'yaml'
- name: "Print Variable Name"
shell: echo "{{ item }}"
loop:
- "{{ global.globalname.property.Name }}"
- "{{ S3.secret }}"
My var files under /home/play/vars
example_1.yaml
global:
globalname:
property:
cipher: DEFAULT
client:
type: dynamic
Name: test-run
example_2.yaml
gcp:
keyname: sample-run
S3:
secret: run
Resources: false
celery:
resources:
limits:
cpu: 5
When I execute the playbook I get the below error. Not sure why the values are not loading
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "'dict object' has no attribute 'globalname'"}
To debug a playbook when an error occurs, it is very often a good idea to insert a debug task.
In your case insert a debug task before the shell task and get the whole variable global output:
- debug:
var: global
As mentioned in my comment above, there are no issues with the playbooks you shared, except for the "S3" variable definition in example_2.yaml, which should be "s3" (in lower case).
One possible cause for the error you reported is that there are more than one "global" var definition in the var files at /home/play/vars, and is overriding the global var definition in example_1.yaml.
Default Ansible merge is in ASCII order, i.e., the last group loaded overwrites the previous groups. See how-variables-are-merged from Ansible official documentation for more details on how variables are merged in Ansible and update your var files accordingly.
As mentioned by user #phanaz in the other answer, its a good practice to use "debug" module for printing the vars to validate, in such scenarios.
I use modules from the collection netapp.ontap in my ansible playbook which works perfectly fine when run using ansible-playbook command.
However, when run from AWX, it fails to detect the collection and immediately throws an errors that it cannot detect the ansible module/collection.
I even tried to re-install the collection from the playbook itself but with no luck.
The ansible collection is confirmed to be installed as it already works fine when run outside AWX.
The host is running ansible 2.10.4.
Here is my playbook:
---
- hosts: all
gather_facts: yes
collections:
- netapp.ontap
tasks:
- name: Install Netapp Collection from Ansible Galaxy
shell: ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.ontap
- name: Run Task
import_tasks: tasks/hil.yml
Task:
- name: 'Gather SVMs'
netapp.ontap.na_ontap_info:
state: info
hostname: "{{ netapp_hostname }}"
username: "{{ netapp_username }}"
password: "{{ netapp_hv_password }}"
gather_subset:
- vserver_info
Error from AWX:
SSH password:
Vault password:
ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'netapp.ontap.na_ontap_info'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path.
The error appears to be in '/tmp/awx_421_gey54bdw/project/tasks/hil.yml': line 6, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- name: 'Gather SVMs'
^ here
This one looks easy to fix. It seems that there is a value started
with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended
with the same kind of quote. For instance:
when: "ok" in result.stdout
Could be written as:
when: '"ok" in result.stdout'
Or equivalently:
when: "'ok' in result.stdout"
Update:
I created a collections/requirements.yml file, with the below details but now AWX fails the task itself.
collections/requirements.yml
collections:
name: https://github.com/ansible-collections/netapp.git
type: git
Error:
"/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/tasks.py",
line 1279, in run self.pre_run_hook(self.instance, private_data_dir) File
"/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/tasks.py",
line 1862, in pre_run_hook sync_task.run(local_project_sync.id) File
"/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/tasks.py",
line 698, in _wrapped return f(self, *args, **kwargs) File
"/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/tasks.py",
line 1444, in run raise AwxTaskError.TaskError(self.instance, rc)
Exception: project_update 435 (failed) encountered an error (rc=2), please
see task stdout for details.
I am trying to take running config back up from two nexus switches, what am I missing from below
configuration?
- name: copy nexus switch running configurations
hosts: nxos-devices
gather_facts: no
ignore_errors: yes
tasks:
- name: timestamp
local_action: command date +%Y%m%d
register: timestamp
- name: get running configuration from nexus switch
nxos_config: running_config
register: running_config
- copy:
content: "{{ running_config.stdout[0] }}"
dest: ".config/{{ item.hostname }}_{{ timestamp.stdout }}.txt"
with_items:
- { hostname: bur1-mrt1 }
- { hostname: bur1-mrt2 }
Getting below error
[root#ansible-net-001 bkrishna]# ansible-playbook -i hosts running-config.yml
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: The TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS settings is set to allow bad characters in group names by default, this will change, but
still be user configurable on deprecation. This feature will be removed in version 2.10. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting
deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
[WARNING]: Invalid characters were found in group names but not replaced, use -vvvv to see details
ERROR! this task 'nxos_config' has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules: shell, win_shell, include_vars, add_host, raw, include_role, meta, set_fact, include, import_tasks, script, import_role, include_tasks, group_by, command, win_command
The error appears to be in '/root/ansible/bkrishna/running-config.yml': line 12, column 7, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- name: get running configuration from nexus switch
^ here
I am trying to create a task that will only run on a box that is in a specific group (called pi).
I am using Ansible version:
ansible 2.3.2.0
config file = /Users/user/Development/raspbian-homeassistant/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
python version = 3.6.3 (default, Dec 3 2017, 10:37:53) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.38)]
This is my current code:
- name: Set up zwave USB dongle
when: inventory_hostname in groups['pi']
blockinfile:
path: /var/local/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml
marker: "# {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK #"
insertafter: "# zwave dongle"
content: |2
zwave:
usb_path: /dev/ttyACM0
tags:
- config
- hass
It seems to work correctly when the hostname is in the group but throws an error when not.
This is the error I get when I run it on my vagrant box (in group vagrant):
fatal: [192.168.33.123]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "The conditional check 'inventory_hostname in groups['pi']' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (inventory_hostname in groups['pi']): Unable to look up a name or access an attribute in template string ({% if inventory_hostname in groups['pi'] %} True {% else %} False {% endif %}).\nMake sure your variable name does not contain invalid characters like '-': argument of type 'StrictUndefined' is not iterable\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/Users/andy/Development/raspbian-homeassistant/ansible/roles/configure-hass/tasks/main.yml': line 21, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: Set up zwave USB dongle\n ^ here\n"}
Check if a list contains an item in Ansible suggests I have the syntax right but I guess that is for an older version of Ansible?
How do I fix this?
Generally, if you want tasks to apply only to hosts in a particular group, the way you do that is by creating a play that targets that group:
- hosts: pi
tasks:
- name: Set up zwave USB dongle
blockinfile:
path: /var/local/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml
marker: "# {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK #"
insertafter: "# zwave dongle"
content: |2
zwave:
usb_path: /dev/ttyACM0
tags:
- config
- hass
The error you're getting is because groups['pi']is undefined. There are a couple of ways of preventing the error. For example, you can explicitly check thatgroups['pi']` is defined before trying to use it:
- name: set up zwave USB dongle
when: groups['pi'] is defined and inventory_hostname in groups['pi']
Or you can use the default filter to provide a default value:
- name: set up zwave USB dongle
when: inventory_hostname in groups['pi']|default([])
I'm trying to run the Ansible modules junos_cli and junos_rollback and I get the following error:
ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.
The error appears to have been in '/home/quake/network-ansible/roles/junos-rollback/tasks/main.yml': line 2, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
---
- name: I've made a huge mistake
^ here
This is the role in question:
---
- name: I've made a huge mistake
junos_rollback:
host={{ inventory_hostname }}
user=ansible
comment={{ comment }}
confirm={{ confirm }}
rollback={{ rollback }}
logfile={{ playbook_dir }}/library/logs/rollback.log
diffs_file={{ playbook_dir }}/configs/{{ inventory_hostname }}
Here is the Juniper page:
http://junos-ansible-modules.readthedocs.io/en/1.3.1/junos_rollback.html
Their example's syntax is a little odd. host uses a colon while the rest uses = signs. I've tried mixing both and only using one or the other. I keep getting errors.
I also confirmed that my junos-eznc version is higher than 1.2.2 (I have 2.0.1)
I've been able to use junos_cli before, I don't know if a version mismatch happened. On the official Ansible documentation, there is no mention of junos_cli or junos_rollback. Perhaps they're not supported anymore?
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_network_modules.html#junos
Thanks,
junos_cli & junos_rollback are part of Galaxy and not core modules. You can find them at
https://galaxy.ansible.com/Juniper/junos/
Is the content posted here has whole content of your playbook? if yes, You need to define other items too in your playbook such as roles, connection, local. For example
refer https://github.com/Juniper/ansible-junos-stdlib#example-playbook
```
---
- name: rollback example
hosts: all
roles:
- Juniper.junos
connection: local
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: I've made a huge mistake
junos_rollback:
host = {{inventory_hostname}}
----
----
```
Where have you saved the content of juniper.junos modules?. Can you post the content of your playbook and the output of the tree command to see your file structure? That could help.
I had a similar problem where Ansible was not finding my modules and what I did was to copy the juniper.junos folder to my roles folder and then added a tasks folder within it to execute the main.yaml from there.
Something like this:
/Users/macuared/Ansible_projects/roles/Juniper.junos/tasks
---
- name: "TEST 1 - Gather Facts"
junos_get_facts:
host: "{{ inventory_hostname}}"
user: "uuuuu"
passwd: "yyyyyy"
savedir: "/Users/macuared/Ansible_projects/Ouput/Facts"
ignore_errors: True
register: junos
- name: Checking Device Version
debug: msg="{{ junos.facts.serialnumber }}"
Additionally, I would add "" to the string values in your YAML. Something like this:
---
- name: I've made a huge mistake
junos_rollback:
host="{{ inventory_hostname }}"
user=ansible
comment="{{ comment }}"
confirm={{ confirm }}
rollback={{ rollback }}
logfile="{{ playbook_dir }}/library/logs/rollback.log"
diffs_file="{{ playbook_dir }}/configs/{{ inventory_hostname }}"
Regarding this "I've tried mixing both and only using one or the other. I keep getting errors."
I've used just colon and mine works fine even when in the documentation suggests = signs. See junos_get_facts