Developer

Hello,

To speed up updating our 100+ aruba switches we are currently building a playbook to automate this process.
I do have some experience with Ansible, that aint no problem.

In the past i used tftp to update aruba switches via the cli and uploaded the image with tftp. This ansible playbook works fine until it starts the task "Check if Upload Complete". It fails duo max retries.

I think the switch cant download the firmware swi file and i cant find a way to achieve this. The task "upgrade firmware via api" should download the firmware from a http server. I do have an http server and indexing files is allowed. Is the information below correct?

switch ip: 172.31.254.185
webserver ip: 172.31.251.102
.swi file is uploaded root/images/xxx.swi

- hosts: all  
  tasks:
  - name: Upgrade Firmware
    include: aruba_task_lists/aos_switch/firmware_upgrade_api_v3.yml
    vars:
      ip: "172.31.254.185"
      boot_image: "primary"
      host_ip: "172.31.254.102"
      path_to_swi: "images/WC_16_09_0010.swi"
      #swi_url: "WC_16_09_0010.swi"
      state: "upgrade" 

Is there some sort of documentation regarding http://{{ ip }}/rest/v2/file-transfer? My guess is that the necessary steps to upgrade / reboot the switch ar included in the url options included in the playbook: body: {"url":"{{ final_url }}","file_type":"FTT_FIRMWARE","action":"FTA_DOWNLOAD","boot_image": "{{ boot_i }}", "force_firmware_install": true }

Hello jangenent,

1. You need to connect at least with REST v4.

2. the value "boot_image" must be "BI_PRIMARY_IMAGE"

View REST API Schema for your version here:

https://asp.arubanetworks.com/downloads/software/RmlsZTpmZWViYmM5Mi04ZTRiLTExZWEtODc4Mi0wZjQ1ZDY1ZjJhOGU%3D

Hi @jangenent !

I would recommend using our Ansible modules for AOS-Switch! If you're running Ansible version 2.9+  you can use our AOS-Switch collection: https://galaxy.ansible.com/arubanetworks/aos_switch

For transferring images to the switch using REST API, the only server type that's supported is HTTP/HTTPS. The task list you're calling creates a HTTP server on the localhost (Ansible machine) and uses that to transfer the image to the switch. If you're planning on hosting that image on a TFTP server, you may want to use a SSH command to transfer the image.

If you use that collection, and decide to use REST API / a HTTPs server to host the image, you can use the `arubaoss_file_transfer` module with the `arubaoss_reboot`. Your playbook would look like the following:  

- hosts: all
  collections:
    - arubanetworks.aos_switch
  tasks:
    - name: image upload
      arubaoss_file_transfer:
        file_url: "http://172.31.254.185/images/WC_16_09_0010.swi"
        file_type: "FTT_FIRMWARE"
        boot_image: "BI_SECONDARY_IMAGE"
        action: "FTA_UPLOAD"

    - name: reboot device to new image
      arubaoss_reboot:
        boot_image: BI_SECONDARY_IMAGE
        is_wait: False

If you want to use SSH in conjunction with a TFTP server to host your image, this is what your playbook would look like:  

- hosts: all
  collections:
    - arubanetworks.aos_switch
  vars:
    ansible_connection: network_cli
  tasks:
    - name: image upload
      arubaoss_command:
        commands: ["copy tftp flash 172.31.254.185 WC_16_09_0010.swi secondary"]

- hosts: all
  collections:
    - arubanetworks.aos_switch
  tasks:
    - name: reboot device to new image
      arubaoss_reboot:
        boot_image: BI_SECONDARY_IMAGE
        is_wait: False

Solution in this post did not work for me, below did.

I was getting error saying that FTA_UPLOAD is not valid action for FTT_FIMWARE

My working playbook

---
- hosts: switch1
vars:
ansible_connection: local
ansible_user: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ansible_password: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
ansible_network_os: arubanetworks.aos_switch.arubaoss
swi_url: http://SERVER_IP_HOSTING_IMAGE/firmware/YA_16_10_0010.swi
tasks:
- name: image upload
arubaoss_file_transfer:
#file_url: "http://{{ ansible_host }}/images/YA_16_10_0010.swi"
file_url: "http://SERVER_IP_HOSTING_IMAGE/firmware/YA_16_10_0010.swi"
file_type: "FTT_FIRMWARE"
boot_image: "BI_SECONDARY_IMAGE"
action: "FTA_DOWNLOAD"