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need help to define static route using ansible for next-vr...

Bhargav_2784 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 15:54:16 GMT

hi ,

i'm trying to create static route with next hop type as a "next-vr" , and as a interface "None" in ansible. but seems like i'm getting an error for nexthop and interface...

sample playbook:

- name: Create route to aws tunnel-1
panos_static_route:
provider: '{{ provider }}'
name: "Route {{ item.id }} to {{ vendor_name }}"
destination: '{{ item.vpc_net }}'
interface: 'None'
nexthop: 'next-vr'
nexthop_type: 'none'
virtual_router: 'SR1'

getting below error:

{"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": {"id": 1, "vpc_net": "20.0.0.0/24"}, "msg": "Failed create: Route 1 to ansible-test -> interface 'None' is not a valid reference\n Route 1 to ansible-test -> interface is invalid"}

here is the original module for panos_static_route on ansible docx...

https://ansible-pan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/panos_static_route_module.html

can you please let me know what i'm misisng here, it works absolutely fine with GUI...

thanks...!!

Re: need help to define static route using ansible for next-vr...

JimmyHolland — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:31:29 GMT

Hi @Bhargav_2784,

Per the docs (by the way, for your bookmarks, the current docs are https://paloaltonetworks.github.io/pan-os-ansible not https://ansible-pan.readthedocs.io) you only have to make a couple of changes:

nexthop should be the name of the VR which is the next hop, which per your code is probably not 'next-vr' but something else?
nexthop_type should not be 'none', it should be the string 'next-vr', per the docs (https://paloaltonetworks.github.io/pan-os-ansible/modules/panos_static_route_module.html)
virtual_router should be the VR into which you are placing this static route
interface does not need to be defined at all, comment it out or remove it

An example from your code:

- name: Create route to aws tunnel-1 panos_static_route: provider: '{{ provider }}' name: "Route {{ item.id }} to {{ vendor_name }}" destination: '{{ item.vpc_net }}' #interface: 'None' nexthop: '{{ your-next-vr }}' nexthop_type: 'next-vr' virtual_router: '{{ the-vr-requiring-the-route }}'

Hope this helps!

Re: need help to define static route using ansible for next-vr...

Bhargav_2784 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:59:45 GMT

thanks @JimmyHolland , that works...