Using Ansible to export stats-dump with specific time range

agatha — Thu, 18 May 2023 04:08:14 GMT

Good morning, LIVE Community.

I'm trying to export stats-dump from a remote PaloAlto device to my local computer using Ansible.

Prior to trying out Ansible, I'd usually use this command on the remote device to export stats-dump to my computer:

scp export stats-dump remote-port <remote_port>start-time equal <YYYY>/<MM>/<DD>@00:00:00end-time equal <YYYY>/<MM>/<DD>@00:00:00to <username>@<remote_host>:<path/to/remote/file>

I tried using the panos_export module, and it worked. But there is a problem, namely I can't seem to specify the time range for my stats-dump? Here is my Ansible playbook.

--- - name: Export configuration hosts: all connection: local gather_facts: False collections: - paloaltonetworks.panos tasks: - name: Load variable include_vars: vars.yml - name: Get stats-dump file panos_export: provider: '{{provider}}' category: 'stats-dump' filename: '/home/ops-user/temp'

I know that by default, stats-dump would collect data for the last 7 days. If I want my stats-dump to collect data for the last month, is there a way to specify the time range in the Ansible playbook?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Re: Using Ansible to export stats-dump with specific time range

BPry — Thu, 18 May 2023 21:00:34 GMT

@agatha,

Just a brief glance there doesn't appear to be a way to customize this. Could you just use the XML-API and make the same call you were using previously?

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