Issue with Ansible URI module execution for Spectrum API

premkumar G

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Dec 4, 2023, 10:40:45 AM12/4/23

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Hello Ansible Community,

I'm currently facing an issue while trying to execute a Spectrum API call using the Ansible URI module. The API call is working fine in Postman, but when I try to replicate it in Ansible, I encounter problems.

Here's a simplified version of my Ansible playbook:

---

- hosts: your_target_hosts

tasks:

- name: Execute Spectrum API

uri:

url: "http://{{ spectrum_server }}/spectrum/restful/models"

method: POST

headers:

Content-Type: "application/xml"

body_format: raw

body: |

<rs:model-request throttlesize="5"

xmlns:rs="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/request"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/request ../../../xsd/Request.xsd ">

<rs:target-models>

<rs:models-search>

<rs:search-criteria

xmlns="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/filter">

<devices-only-search/>

<filtered-models>

<value>YourActualDeviceName</value>

</attribute>

</equals>

</filtered-models>

</rs:search-criteria>

</rs:models-search>

</rs:target-models>

<rs:requested-attribute id="0x1006e" />

<rs:requested-attribute id="0x129fa" />

</rs:model-request>

register: response

- name: Print API Response

debug:

var: response

Dick Visser

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Dec 4, 2023, 11:24:57 AM12/4/23

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On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 at 16:40, premkumar G <premkuma...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Ansible Community,

I'm currently facing an issue while trying to execute a Spectrum API call using the Ansible URI module. The API call is working fine in Postman, but when I try to replicate it in Ansible, I encounter problems.

We need some more info/context:

What problems?

What is the error?

What is the output?

And what is Postman?

premkumar G

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Dec 5, 2023, 8:24:06 AM12/5/23

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I have two APIs related to CA Spectrum. The first API puts network devices in maintenance mode, and the second API is used to find the model MH value based on a device name.

API Details:

1. Maintenance Mode API:

URL: `http://CAserver:portnumber/spectrum/restful/model/0xa0000fa0?attr=0x1295d&val=false`

Issue: I need to find the correct value (e.g., `0xa0000fa0`) to replace in the URL.

2. Find Model API:

URL: `http://CAserver:portnumber/spectrum/restful/models/`

Body:

<rs:model-request throttlesize="5"

xmlns:rs="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/request"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/request ../../../xsd/Request.xsd ">

<rs:target-models>

<rs:models-search>

<rs:search-criteria

xmlns="http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/filter">

<devices-only-search/>

<filtered-models>

<value>YourActualDeviceName</value>

</attribute>

</equals>

</filtered-models>

</rs:search-criteria>

</rs:models-search>

</rs:target-models>

<rs:requested-attribute id="0x1006e" />

<rs:requested-attribute id="0x129fa" />

</rs:model-request>

Issue: I've received an XML response, and I need to extract the 'mh' value from it to use in the Maintenance Mode API.

XML Response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<model-response-list xmlns=http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/response total-models="156" throttle="156" error="EndOfResults">

<model-responses>

</model>

</model-responses>

</model-responses-list>

Request for Help:

1. How can I extract the 'mh' value from the XML response using Ansible?

2. Once I have the 'mh' value, how can I dynamically replace it in the Maintenance Mode API URL?

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