Note
This plugin is part of the cisco.iosxr collection.
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.iosxr.
To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.iosxr.iosxr_banner.
New in version 1.0.0: of cisco.iosxr
Note
This module has a corresponding action plugin.
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| banner string / required |
| Specifies the type of banner to configure on remote device. | |
| provider dictionary | Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli.For more information please see the Network Guide. A dict object containing connection details. | ||
| host string | Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport. | ||
| password string | Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead. | ||
| port integer | Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. | ||
| ssh_keyfile path | Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead. | ||
| timeout integer | Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error. | ||
| transport string |
| Specifies the type of connection based transport. | |
| username string | Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead. | ||
| state string |
| Existential state of the configuration on the device. | |
| text string | Banner text to be configured. Accepts multi line string, without empty lines. Requires state=present. | ||
Note
network_cli and netconf. See the IOS-XR Platform Options.- name: configure the login banner
cisco.iosxr.iosxr_banner:
banner: login
text: |
this is my login banner
that contains a multiline
string
state: present
- name: remove the motd banner
cisco.iosxr.iosxr_banner:
banner: motd
state: absent
- name: Configure banner from file
cisco.iosxr.iosxr_banner:
banner: motd
text: "{{ lookup('file', './config_partial/raw_banner.cfg') }}"
state: present
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| Key | Returned | Description |
|---|---|---|
| commands list / elements=string | always (empty list when no commands to send) | The list of configuration mode commands sent to device with transport cli
Sample: ['banner login', 'this is my login banner', 'that contains a multiline', 'string'] |
| xml list / elements=string | always (empty list when no xml rpc to send) | NetConf rpc xml sent to device with transport netconf
Sample: ['<config xmlns:xc="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0"> <banners xmlns="http://cisco.com/ns/yang/Cisco-IOS-XR-infra-infra-cfg"> <banner xc:operation="merge"> <banner-name>motd</banner-name> <banner-text>Ansible banner example</banner-text> </banner> </banners> </config>'] |
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