Ansible module - selecting "None" value

[jakubanowacki]

I'm trying to create a tunnel interface using Ansible module panos_tunnel from  Galaxy role PaloAltoNetworks.paloaltonetworks

My playbook is failing because it cannot detect correct netflow-profile value. In my configuration I don't have any netflow-profile selected, so in GUI I'm selecting it as None. Through GUI this works just fine.

When I'm running my Ansible playbook I'm getting following error:

"msg": "Failed create:  tunnel.111 -> netflow-profile 'None' is not a valid reference\n tunnel.111 -> netflow-profile is invalid"

 I've tried running that same playbook with netflow-profile: null but it fails with another error

"msg": "Failed create:  tunnel.111 -> netflow-profile is invalid"

 Not setting parameter netflow-profile in module shows yet another error

"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute 'netflow_profile'\n\nThe error appears to be in 'tunnel_interface.yml': line 20, column 10, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n  - name: Create tunnel interface\n    ^ here\n"

Is there a way to set that value in Ansible so that it will complete successfully or is it required to have specific Neflow-Profile created first, so that it doesn't use "None" ?

[jakubanowacki · Accepted solution]

This was caused by error in my configuration.

In my playbook I had value for netflow-profile which was a reference to variable in another file. I've tried to set it to specific value and that failed. When original I've stated that I was removing value for netflow-profile what I was doing was to remove variable from that additional file and this was crashing due to non-existing variable.

Solution was to remove parameter netflow-profile from module panos_tunnel from my playbook.