Ansible Expect - Program under control has same prompt

[phillip.from.oz]

Hi,

I want to run a program on a remote server where after login, the program will ask for more input using the same prompt.

This is the basic flow:

Read Username

Read Password

Read commands <- these get echoed back

until 'h' or 'H' is entered

This is a sample run of the program

BASE:/home# python3 converse2.py

Welcome to BASE

   My configuration is up to date

   Print settings are normal

 Username: sq

 Password: SoLong> 

BASE>w abc

w abc

BASE>h

I run the same program using Ansible Expect with this playbook:

--- 

- name: Test a conversation

   hosts: BASE

   remote_user: root

   gather_facts: false

   tasks:

    - name: Copy script converse2.py

      copy: src=/home/converse2.py

                 dest=/home/converse2.py

                 remote_src=no

                 mode=preserve 

    - name: Run test session

      expect:

         echo: yes

         chdir: /tmp

         command: python3 /home/converse2.py

         timeout: "300"

         responses:

             Username: sq

             Password: "SoLong>"

             BASE\>: w ##Class(websys).test()

             BASE\>: H

     register: command_output

    - debug:

          msg: "{{ command_output.stdout.split('\n') }}"

However Ansible Expect is not sending 'w ##Class(websys).test()' to the program

This is the run:

ansible-playbook /home/ansible_playbooks/test-converse2.yml
[WARNING]: While constructing a mapping from /home/ansible_playbooks/test-converse2.yml, line 20, column 9, found a duplicate dict key (BASE\>). Using last defined value only.

PLAY [Test a conversation] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Copy script converse2.py] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [TRAK-BASE01]

TASK [Run test session] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [TRAK-BASE01]

TASK [debug] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [TRAK-BASE01] => {
    "msg": [
        "\r",
        "Welcome to BASE\r",
        "   My configuration is up to date\r",
        "   Print settings are normal\r",
        "\r",
        "\r",
        "Username: sq\r",
        "Password: SoLong>\r",
        "BASE>H"
    ]
}

PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TRAK-BASE01                : ok=3    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

How do I fix this?

[Dick Visser]

Your responses is now a dict which cannot have the same key more than once. So the second BASE question isn't going to work.

Try turning it into a list.

See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/expect_module.html#examples

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[phillip.from.oz]

Thanks. That did the trick.

I changed

BASE\>: w ##Class(websys).test()

BASE\>: H

to

BASE\>: ["w ##Class(websys.PatchHistory).test()","H"]

However, how do I code the list if I have this set of prompts:

BASE1>

BASE1>
BASE1>

BASE2>

BASE2>

BASE1>

BASE1>

[Dick Visser]

Hi

It now partly works because you made the items of a single dict key into a list and by doing so also quoted the value with '#' in it.

But what I meant is to have the responses itself be a list, so you can have duplicates. I think this would look like:

responses:
  - Username: sq
  - Password: "SoLong>"
  - BASE\>: "w ##Class(websys).test()"
  - BASE\>: "H"
  - BASE1>: "foo"
  - BASE1>: "bar"
  - BASE1>: "bz"
  - BASE2>: "fog"

  - BASE2>: "fbzhy33"

  - BASE1>: "bar"

etc

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[phillip.from.oz]

Thanks.

I tried what you suggested but I get:

'responses' is of type <class 'list'> and we were unable to convert to dict

But this seems to work:

     responses:

        Username: sq
        Password: "SoLong>"
        BASE\>:

          -  "w ##Class(websys).test()"
          -  "H"

[Dick Visser]

Then i don't know, perhaps someone else does

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