nxos_banner - Manage multiline banners on Cisco NXOS devices¶

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

This will configure both exec and motd banners on remote devices running Cisco NXOS. It allows playbooks to add or remote banner text from the active running configuration.

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
banner required	Choices: exec motd	Specifies which banner that should be configured on the remote device.
provider		Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using `connection: network_cli`. This option is only required if you are using NX-API. For more information please see the NXOS Platform Options guide. A dict object containing connection details.
username		Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the nxapi authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
ssh_keyfile		Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for the cli transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE` will be used instead.
use_proxy (added in 2.5)	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, the environment variables `http_proxy` and `https_proxy` will be ignored.
host required		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.
timeout (added in 2.3)	Default: 10	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. NX-API can be slow to return on long-running commands (sh mac, sh bgp, etc).
use_ssl	Choices: no ← yes	Configures the transport to use SSL if set to true only when the `transport=nxapi`, otherwise this value is ignored.
password		Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This is a common argument used for either cli or nxapi transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
validate_certs	Choices: no yes	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. If the transport argument is not nxapi, this value is ignored.
port	Default: 0 (use common port)	Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. This value applies to either cli or nxapi. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task. (cli=22, http=80, https=443).
transport required	Default: cli	Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or nxapi.
state	Choices: present ← absent	Specifies whether or not the configuration is present in the current devices active running configuration.
text		The banner text that should be present in the remote device running configuration. This argument accepts a multiline string, with no empty lines. Requires state=present.

Notes ¶

Note

For information on using CLI and NX-API see the NXOS Platform Options guide
For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide
For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the Cisco integration page.

Examples ¶

- name: configure the exec banner
  nxos_banner:
    banner: exec
    text: |
      this is my exec banner
      that contains a multiline
      string
    state: present
- name: remove the motd banner
  nxos_banner:
    banner: motd
    state: absent
- name: Configure banner from file
  nxos_banner:
    banner:  motd
    text: "{{ lookup('file', './config_partial/raw_banner.cfg') }}"
    state: present

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
commands list	always	The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device Sample: ['banner exec', 'this is my exec banner', 'that contains a multiline', 'string']

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Support ¶

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author ¶

Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)

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