Ansible and Huawei

[Anurag Bhatia]

Hello there

Was wondering if anyone has experience of using ansible with Huawei successfully?

We are using Huawei at our IX and I am able to use ad-hoc commands with Huawei but playbooks based on documentation fail with a ncclient related error. We do have nc client as well as netconf installed on the machine. 

Our sample playbook (IP and access details are removed)

---

  - hosts: ###hidden###

    connection: local

    gather_facts: no

    vars:

      cli:

        host: ###hidden###

        port: ###hidden###

        username: ###hidden###

        password: ###hidden###

        transport: cli

    tasks:

    - name: Test port

      ce_switchport:

        interface: XGigabitEthernet0/0/44

        mode: access

        access_vlan: 100

        provider: '{{ cli }}'

        state: present

and this throws the following error during execution: 

The full traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/bin/ansible-connection", line 106, in start

    self.connection._connect()

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/netconf.py", line 288, in _connect

    ssh_config=ssh_config

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ncclient/manager.py", line 163, in connect

    return connect_ssh(*args, **kwds)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ncclient/manager.py", line 128, in connect_ssh

    session.connect(*args, **kwds)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ncclient/transport/ssh.py", line 485, in connect

    raise SSHError("Could not open connection, possibly due to unacceptable"

SSHError: Could not open connection, possibly due to unacceptable SSH subsystem name.

fatal: [$Host]: FAILED! => {

    "msg": "Could not open connection, possibly due to unacceptable SSH subsystem name."

}

Anyone with ideas on what could be wrong? 

Thanks! 

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Anurag Bhatia

anuragbhatia.com

[Ganesh Nalawade]

The error you are seeing is coming from ncclient library.

Are you able to connect to the device using a sample python script that uses ncclinet library?

Reference python script: https://github.com/ncclient/ncclient/blob/master/examples/nc01.py

Regards,

Ganesh

[Anurag Bhatia]

Hi


Yes, tried that and it failed as well. Turned out netconf was not
enabled at the device and for some reason I am not able to enable it
either. Checking for device compatibility with netconf for now.

Anyways, thanks for your help and input Ganesh.

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Anurag Bhatia
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