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Hello,

I can configure the switch via ssh and rest api using the following options in my hosts file:

10.0.232.254 ansible_network_os=arubanetworks.aos_switch.arubaoss ansible_connection=local ansible_user=admin

I start the playbook with the following parameters and ask for the password:

ANSIBLE_NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES=arubaoss ansible-playbook conf_vlan.yml -i hosts.txt --ask-pass

normal passwords without special characters work just fine.

when I use a password that includes special characters I get the following error:

TASK [Create Vlan] *******************************************************************************************************************************************
failed: [10.0.232.254] (item={'vlanid': '1000', 'vlanname': 'INT-Clients_1'}) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "body": "{\"message\":\"Authentication failed.\"}", "changed": false, "connection": "close", "content-type": "application/json", "item": {"vlanid": "1000", "vlanname": "INT-Clients_1"}, "msg": "HTTP Error 400: Bad Request", "requestid": "", "server": "eHTTP v2.0", "status": 400, "transfer-encoding": "chunked", "url": "http://10.0.232.254:80/rest/v6.0/login-sessions"}

When I connect with ssh or the webui with the special character password there is no problem at all.

If something is wrong or stupid, please enlighten me.

Best Regards

Marc

Hi Marc,

What the special character do you are using ?

What the switch model / firmware ?

May be also report the issue on github repo issue

https://github.com/aruba/aos-switch-ansible-collection/issues

Hello,

I can configure the switch via ssh and rest api using the following options in my hosts file:

10.0.232.254 ansible_network_os=arubanetworks.aos_switch.arubaoss ansible_connection=local ansible_user=admin

I start the playbook with the following parameters and ask for the password:

ANSIBLE_NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES=arubaoss ansible-playbook conf_vlan.yml -i hosts.txt --ask-pass

normal passwords without special characters work just fine.

when I use a password that includes special characters I get the following error:

TASK [Create Vlan] *******************************************************************************************************************************************
failed: [10.0.232.254] (item={'vlanid': '1000', 'vlanname': 'INT-Clients_1'}) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "body": "{\"message\":\"Authentication failed.\"}", "changed": false, "connection": "close", "content-type": "application/json", "item": {"vlanid": "1000", "vlanname": "INT-Clients_1"}, "msg": "HTTP Error 400: Bad Request", "requestid": "", "server": "eHTTP v2.0", "status": 400, "transfer-encoding": "chunked", "url": "http://10.0.232.254:80/rest/v6.0/login-sessions"}

When I connect with ssh or the webui with the special character password there is no problem at all.

If something is wrong or stupid, please enlighten me.

Best Regards

Marc

Hi,

it is because of \.

I tried: to escape \, $, ', and ", use a double quotation mark around the password or use the back slash (\) as the escape character.

But that doesn't seem to work.

HPE Aruba 2930M 48G PoE+ Switch (JL322A) 

Image             Size (bytes) Date     Version
----------------- ------------ -------- --------------
Primary Image    :    30252184 05/17/23 WC.16.11.0012

Hi Marc,

What the special character do you are using ?

What the switch model / firmware ?

May be also report the issue on github repo issue

https://github.com/aruba/aos-switch-ansible-collection/issues

Hello,

I can configure the switch via ssh and rest api using the following options in my hosts file:

10.0.232.254 ansible_network_os=arubanetworks.aos_switch.arubaoss ansible_connection=local ansible_user=admin

I start the playbook with the following parameters and ask for the password:

ANSIBLE_NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES=arubaoss ansible-playbook conf_vlan.yml -i hosts.txt --ask-pass

normal passwords without special characters work just fine.

when I use a password that includes special characters I get the following error:

TASK [Create Vlan] *******************************************************************************************************************************************
failed: [10.0.232.254] (item={'vlanid': '1000', 'vlanname': 'INT-Clients_1'}) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "body": "{\"message\":\"Authentication failed.\"}", "changed": false, "connection": "close", "content-type": "application/json", "item": {"vlanid": "1000", "vlanname": "INT-Clients_1"}, "msg": "HTTP Error 400: Bad Request", "requestid": "", "server": "eHTTP v2.0", "status": 400, "transfer-encoding": "chunked", "url": "http://10.0.232.254:80/rest/v6.0/login-sessions"}

When I connect with ssh or the webui with the special character password there is no problem at all.

If something is wrong or stupid, please enlighten me.

Best Regards

Marc