Ansible for XOS

[Andreas_Larsen]

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 ?

[andreas1]

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

[Dave_Hammers]

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"
}

[andreas1]

Still no framework from extreme ?

[PARTHIBAN_CHINN]

I was told in 15.6 python shell is open

[Holmberg__Mikae]

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