topic RE: Ansible for XOS in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

Ansible for XOS

Andreas_Larsen — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:13:00 GMT

Have anyone done any playbook work with ansible for Extreme networks ? Is there anything done in the ansible-galaxy part or anything done internally at Extreme ?

RE: Ansible for XOS

eyeV — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:50:00 GMT

Hello.
I use Ansible for servers configuration sometimes. But is it possible to use Ansible for XOS?

I know Ansible pushes a python script to node, but there is no python interpreter on the Extreme switches.

It would be great if someone corrected me.

RE: Ansible for XOS

PARTHIBAN_CHINN — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:58:00 GMT

I was told in 15.6 python shell is open

RE: Ansible for XOS

eyeV — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:58:00 GMT

Sorry, but do you get some information about it?

RE: Ansible for XOS

Stephane_Grosj1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:58:00 GMT

Python 2.7 is part of EXOS since 15.6. You can script and interact with EXOS (send EXOS cmd and capture the result, in text, xml or both), create sockets, and all the good thing Python can do with the standard library.

And there's more to come in the short term (15.7).

RE: Ansible for XOS

eyeV — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:58:00 GMT

Thanks! I should upgrade my switches)

RE: Ansible for XOS

Holmberg__Mikae — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:58:00 GMT

Stay tuned, we are working on Ansible support in EXOS.

RE: Ansible for XOS

andreas1 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:05:00 GMT

Still no framework from extreme ?

RE: Ansible for XOS

Dave_Hammers — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 02:47:00 GMT

Ansible is designed to run python modules on the managed device and return JSON results.

I have a question for the community about an Ansible implementation.

If there were an Ansible EXOS module that pushed EXOS CLI commands from a playbook to a switch, and the switch returned JSON data, would that work for the Ansible users?

Playbook example: (I may not have this just right)

hosts: exosswitches

vars:

portno: ""

tasks:

-name collect port statistics

exos: show ports {{ portno }} statistics no-refresh

The data returned from an EXOS device for portno=1 would look like:

[

{
"show_ports_stats": {
"dot1dTpPortInDiscards": 0,
"dot1dTpPortInFrames": 616,
"dot1dTpPortMaxInfo": 1500,
"dot1dTpPortOutFrames": 626,
"linkState": 1,
"port": 1,
"portList": 1,
"portNoSnmp": 1,
"rxBcast": 0,
"rxByteCnt": 110071,
"rxMcast": 305,
"rxPktCnt": 616,
"txBcast": 0,
"txByteCnt": 112932,
"txMcast": 303,
"txPktCnt": 626
},
"status": "SUCCESS"
}

RE: Ansible for XOS

andreas1 — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:48:00 GMT

Hi !
First of all thank you for sharing and asking.

From my perspective I would like to have the answer back in Json format. That would be very useful and easy to parse out.

// Andreas

RE: Ansible for XOS

andreas1 — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:18:00 GMT

Any update here ?

RE: Ansible for XOS

andreas1 — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:20:00 GMT

Any update ?

RE: Ansible for XOS

Stephane_Grosj1 — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:26:00 GMT

Hi,

With EXOS 21.1, there're several enhancements that open doors to Ansible. There's a MMI, using JSONRPC with different methods: CLI or Python. So that's, imho, the foundation for using Ansible here.

http://documentation.extremenetworks.com/app_notes/MMI/121152_MMI_Application_Release_Notes.pdf

However, there's no module nor playbook, and it may require some effort yet to have it running smoothly.

RE: Ansible for XOS

Richard_Salts — Wed, 04 May 2016 04:13:00 GMT

You can also use ansible modules from the managing host with delegate_to. I think many of the modules for setting up vms on aws, configure bigip loadbalancers and a few others.

RE: Ansible for XOS

Bruce_Garlock — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 03:50:00 GMT

Hello, came here looking for anyone using Ansible to push firmware updates to XOS devices, and it looks like it's still in process, and more of a 21.1 thing. Since the last post is seven months old, I'm wondering if any progress has been made on this. I would just like to easily push firmware updates to all our Summit switches, without having to login to each one and TFTP/SCP the XOS firmware and SSH mod.

RE: Ansible for XOS

Stephane_Grosj1 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:54:00 GMT

Hi,

For the moment, there's no official support for Ansible.

Would you be interested in a separate "tool" that could manage your EXOS switches in a similar way, but not exactly like Ansible? The tool would NOT be an official extreme tool, but rather a home-made one. Testing not really done, this is really "home-made".

That tool would also require 21.1 or later.

RE: Ansible for XOS

Tasos_Vlachogia — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:54:00 GMT

Do you have any updates on that tool?

RE: Ansible for XOS

Johannes_Dennin — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:14:00 GMT

any news on that topic?

RE: Ansible for XOS

Bin — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:26:00 GMT

Hi,

Current EXOS is not support Ansible.

On another way, we offer JSONRPC which could collect the datat from an EXOS switch in machine readable JSON format.
https://github.com/extremenetworks/ExtremeScripting/tree/master/EXOS/Python/jsoncli

Best regards,

RE: Ansible for XOS

M_Nees — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:25:00 GMT

Are there some new steps for EXOS support regarding ansible ?

GitHub now present this topic - but without any content:
https://github.com/extremenetworks/ansible-extreme