How to use regex to match a response using the expect module

[David Williams]

I am stumped...I have been trying to use the expect module and format the expected response as a regex that can match multiple responses.   I see posts all over where people are trying to match the response exactly and have to escape the regex special characters.  It seems nobody writes regex to match multiple responses.  Is this not possible?

Playbook

- name: Clear Permissions on /var/etc/pam.conf

  hosts: juniper_ex4200

  tasks:

    - name: Access member 0

      expect:

        command: 'request session member 0'

        responses: "^---\sJUNOS.+\n(warning.+\n){5}\{((backup)|(linecard)):((1)|(2))\}": "start shell user root"

Error

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in '/home/dwilliams/ex4200_permissions_clear/ex4200_permissions_clear': line 8, column 25, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

        command: 'request session member 0'

        responses: "^---\sJUNOS.+\n(warning.+\n){5}\{((backup)|(linecard)):((1)|(2))\}"

                        ^ here

This one looks easy to fix.  It seems that there is a value started

with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended

with the same kind of quote.  For instance:

    when: "ok" in result.stdout

Could be written as:

   when: '"ok" in result.stdout'

Or equivalently:

   when: "'ok' in result.stdout"

[Matt Clay]

David,

I know this isn't what you asked, but since it looks like you're working with JUNOS I thought I'd check to see if you've already looked at Ansible's JUNOS support:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_network_modules.html#junos

 - Matt

[David Williams]

Thank you Matt, I have looked at the modules but I'm trying to drop down into the linux shell and change some file permissions within the directory structure.  It doesn't look like the module can do that.  Thanks for trying though!  Any help is always appreciated.

[Ganesh Nalawade]

Hi David,

Changing the yml file as below at least loads the file. As per docs the key under responses is python regex so I think it should work.

- name: Access member 0
  expect:
    command: 'request session member 0'
    responses: 
      ^---\sJUNOS.+\n(warning.+\n){5}\{((backup)|(linecard)):((1)|(2))\}: start shell user root

However, I am trying to understand the need to use 'expect' module to run junos operational command.

Can't it be run using 'junos_command' module? Does running this command prompts for an interactive input?

Regards,

Ganesh

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