Expect module in ansible

[SARANYA devotional R]

Expect module is not taking the password! 

Task:

 - expect:

     command: ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000

     responses:

        admin@localhost's password: "xyz"

Error:

TASK [unpresentrepo : expect] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************

fatal: [10.100.100.187]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": "ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000", "delta": "0:00:30.592311", "end": "2017-07-28 13:12:23.385812", "failed": true, "rc": 255, "start": "2017-07-28 13:11:52.793501", "stdout": "admin@localhost's password: \r\nOVM> ", "stdout_lines": ["admin@localhost's password: ", "OVM> "]}

        to retry, use: --limit @/home/sara.bckup.priv/main.retry

Please help!

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 28. juli 2017 19:14, SARANYA devotional R wrote:
> Expect module is not taking the password!

It does.

If you look at stdout or stdout_lines you'll see to lines.
One is "admin@localhost's password: " and the second is "OVM> "

So it has logged in and gotten a new prompt, OVM>.
Delta is over 30 second and default timeout for expect is 30 second. So
expect has been waiting for 30 seconds for more input, but you have only
provided one input and the task times out.


--
Kai Stian Olstad

[SARANYA devotional R]

Thanks Kai!

I am a new beginner to Ansible. if I want to  execute series of a commands in OVM prompt like list repository etc, what should I do?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 28. juli 2017 22:49, SARANYA devotional R wrote:
> Thanks Kai!
>
> I am a new beginner to Ansible. if I want to execute series of a commands
> in OVM prompt like list repository etc, what should I do?

Expect takes a list on responses, the fist time it get the response it
will give the first entry, on the second respense the second and so on.

I don't know what commands a OVM prompt take, but lets say you would
like to run "show something", "list something" and "get something" in
that order it would be like this.

- expect:
command: ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000
responses:
admin@localhost's password: "xyz"

OVM>:
- show something
- list something
- get something


--
Kai Stian Olstad

[SARANYA devotional R]

Its not giving the output for list Repository command.

fatal: [10.100.100.187]: FAILED! => {

    "changed": true,

    "cmd": "ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000",

    "delta": "0:00:30.821117",

    "end": "2017-07-31 13:54:57.711477",

    "failed": true,

    "invocation": {

        "module_args": {

            "chdir": null,

            "command": "ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000",

            "creates": null,

            "echo": false,

            "removes": null,

            "responses": {

                "OVM>": [

                    "list Repository"

                ],

                "admin@localhost's password": "xyz"

            },

            "timeout": 30

        }

    },

    "rc": 255,

    "start": "2017-07-31 13:54:26.890360",

    "stdout": "OVM> list Repository",

    "stdout_lines": [

        "OVM> list Repository"

    ]

}

        to retry, use: --limit @/home/sara.bckup.priv/main.retry

task:

- expect:

   command: ssh -l admin localhost -p 10000

   responses:

     admin@localhost's password: "xyz"

     OVM>:

      - list Repository