Developer

Hello everyone!

Just this week i noticed aos_switch galaxy collection was released, and so i embarked on a journey to migrate from aruba-ansible-modules to collection, as it simplifies installation greatly both for new employees and AWX deployment

I have installed collection by using requirements.yml file. Everything seems to be installed just fine, as ansible-doc can find module documentation without a problem.

After adapting tasks (every module call needed to be prepended with arubanetworks.aos_switch) and host variables (from just "arubaoss" to "arubanetworks.aos_switch.arubaoss", i tried to run the play.

It worked for both arubaoss_command  and arubaoss_config (i'm changing the ansible_connection in those tasks, as described in docu - the default is local), but it fails miserably on arubaoss_dns or arubaoss_syslog.

The weirdest thing is, it looks like neither of ansible_user, ansible_password, ansible_hostname are propagated to REST API modules, as i'm getting this error:

fatal: [proper FQDN here]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "api_version": "None",
            "dns_config_mode": "DCM_MANUAL",
            "dns_domain_names": "",
            "dns_domain_names_2": "",
            "dns_domain_names_3": "",
            "dns_domain_names_4": "",
            "dns_domain_names_5": "",
            "host": null,
            "password": null,
            "port": null,
            "provider": null,
            "server_1": "proper DNS1 IP here",
            "server_2": "proper DNS2 IP here",
            "server_3": "proper DNS3 IP here",
            "server_4": "proper DNS4 IP here",
            "ssh_keyfile": null,
            "timeout": null,
            "use_ssl": null,
            "username": null,
            "validate_certs": false,
            "version_1": "IAV_IP_V4",
            "version_2": "IAV_IP_V4",
            "version_3": "IAV_IP_V4",
            "version_4": "IAV_IP_V4"
        }
    },
    "status": -1,
    "url": "http://None:80/rest/v6.0/login-sessions"
}

I don't know what i'm doing wrong here, it looks like only REST API calls have issues, but i have no idea how to debug it further. Is it possible there's a problem within the collection?

Hi,

What firmware do you are using ?

The switch is on YA.16.09.0001.

I'm baffled the most about:

"url": "http://None:80/rest/v6.0/login-sessions"

isn't it weird that the fqdn is set to "None"?

---

@Scorcerer wrote:

The switch is on YA.16.09.0001.

I'm baffled the most about:

"url": "http://None:80/rest/v6.0/login-sessions"

isn't it weird that the fqdn is set to "None"?

---

What do you have on inventory file ?

The inventory seen by ansible looks like this:

$ ansible-inventory --host switch_fqdn --vault-password-file test/fixtures/vault_password_file -i environments/company/env
{
    "ansible_connection": "local",
    "ansible_network_os": "arubanetworks.aos_switch.arubaoss",
    "ansible_password": {
        "__ansible_vault": "$ANSIBLE_VAULT;
	    vaulted_password_here"
    },
    "ansible_user": "manager",
    "dns_server": [
        "DNS1_IP",
        "DNS2_IP",
        "DNS3_IP",
        "DNS4_IP",
        "DNS5_IP"
    ],
    "ntp_server": [
        "NTP1_IP",
        "NTP2_IP"
    ],
    "syslog_port": 5514,
    "syslog_server": "syslog_IP"
}

Also, when i force the host by adding this to a specific module call:

host: "{{ ansible_host }}"

For example:

- name: ArubaOS | Set DNS servers
  arubanetworks.aos_switch.arubaoss_dns:
    host: "{{ ansible_host }}"
    server_1: "{{ dns_server[0] }}"
    server_2: "{{ dns_server[1] }}"
    server_3: "{{ dns_server[2] }}"
    server_4: "{{ dns_server[3] }}"
  register: result

I get this:

TASK [switch.aos : ArubaOS | Set DNS servers] **********************************************
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Param 'host' is deprecated. See the module docs for more information. This feature will be removed in version 2.9. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in 
ansible.cfg.
fatal: [proper_host_here]: FAILED! => {
    "body": "<HTML><TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE><H1>Bad Request</H1>Please login to access the resource.<P></HTML>",
    "changed": false,
    "connection": "close",
    "content-length": "102",
    "content-type": "text/html",
    "server": "eHTTP v2.0",
    "status": 400,
    "url": "http://proper_host_here:80/rest/v6.0/login-sessions"
}

MSG:

HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

I get the warning about deprecated host, but why didn't it login automatically? It worked like this with aruba-ansible-modules...

Foud the underlying cause, not sure how to fix it:

If after installing the collection i additionally copy two files form aruba-ansible-modules, like this:

$ mkdir /home/scor/git/ansible/ansible_venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/network/arubaoss/
$ cp ../aruba-ansible-modules/aruba_module_installer/library/module_utils/network/arubaoss/arubaoss.py /home/scor/git/ansible/ansible_venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/network/arubaoss/arubaoss.py
$ cp ../aruba-ansible-modules/aruba_module_installer/library/plugins/action/arubaoss.py /home/scor/git/ansible/ansible_venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/action/arubaoss.py

All jobs run without a problem.

Without those files, no REST API module runs, as they don't have necessary variables.

I'll create an issue in github about it as well.

Turned out i had some missing things in the role file, you can check the solution on github: https://github.com/aruba/aos-switch-ansible-collection/issues/2