Help on terminal and cliconf plugin

[Rajas Pachipulusu]

Hi Experts,


I am unable to create terminal and cliconf plugin for my company. Can some one help me in creating it. I can arrange a call.


Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Rajas

[Pshem Kowalczyk]

Hi,

I've written those plugins for some of our in-house devices. Key points:

- You have to tell Ansible where your plugins are, either using environmental variables or via ansible.cfg

- You'll need a module that actually uses your plugins 

- The ios.py (in plugins/cliconf and plugins/terminal) is a very good start, the corresponding module is modules/network/ios/ios_command.py

- getting the regular expression in the terminal plugin (in variable terminal_stdout_re) right is critical - start with something really generic and work from there, if that regular expression doesn't catch the prompt you'll get weird errors about timeouts (even though the ssh session connected fine).

- If you want to debug things - run Ansible in full debug mode (writing to a file), if you need more have a look in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/module_utils/connection.py around line 190.

kind regards

Pshem

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