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Question regarding new ansible features

hbalzac — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:45:57 GMT

I can see that here https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/ansible-pan/issues people are adding requests, is this the preferd way, or should i contact my local SE insted?

Re: Question regarding new ansible features

rhagen — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:13:25 GMT

The ansible-pan modules are open source software contributed and maintained by Palo Alto Networks. However, there is no technical support or field support for open source projects. Feature requests and bug reports should be submitted to the GitHub repository.

P.S. If you're handy with Python coding you're welcome to fork the repository and contribute new features to the project.

P.S.S. Even if you're not handy with Python or GitHub there's no better way to learn than by contributing to an existing project!

Re: Question regarding new ansible features

hbalzac — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:53:05 GMT

Ah ok

Just of curiosity. The modules that end up here https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_network_modules.html#panos are they just added from the ansible-pan repository after they have been approved somehow?

Re: Question regarding new ansible features

rhagen — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:13:24 GMT

That is correct. The modules listed on the Ansible website are contributed by Palo Alto Networks for inclusion in the official Ansible release. They are QA-ed and approved by Ansible (Red Hat) and baselined in their release.

However... work on the Ansible modules is ongoing and if you want to run the latest stable modules you'll want to use the paloaltonetworks role in Ansible Galaxy instead. This will allow you to adopt new modules and features between Ansible release cycles.

To install the role, issue the following command on your Ansible server:

ansible-galaxy install paloaltonetworks.paloaltonetworks

Then reference the role in your playbooks.

Hope this helps!

Re: Question regarding new ansible features

cziaeian — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:25:19 GMT

Hi,

Has anypnme run any operation commnad from ansible, or upgrade device from ansible playbook, I'm, getting this command, using this playbook?

- name: Show system info
panos_object:
ip_address: '{{ ansible_host }}'
password: '{{ password }}'
cmd: "show system info"
commit: False

TASK [Show system info] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************

fatal: [panhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unsupported parameters for (panos_object) module: cmd,commit Supported parameters include: address,address_type,addressgroup,addressobject,api_key,color,description,destination_port,devicegroup,dynamic_value,ip_address,operation,password,protocol,servicegroup,serviceobject,services,source_port,static_value,tag_name,username"}

Re: Question regarding new ansible features

hbalzac — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:53:43 GMT

You are using panos_object, try panos_op insted

Re: Question regarding new ansible features

cziaeian — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:45:03 GMT

thanks, it works. do you know how to print the output?

Re: Question regarding new ansible features

gfreeman — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:53:35 GMT

`panos_op` does not have a `commit` param, that's why you're getting that error. The output also hints at this, as it gives all of the params for that module that are supported, but `commit` is not there.

Re: Question regarding new ansible features

cziaeian — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:44:25 GMT

Thank you, it works after removing the commit per your sugestion!