panos_admin - Add or modify PAN-OS user accounts password.¶

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Author

Synopsis ¶

PanOS module that allows changes to the user account passwords by doing API calls to the Firewall using pan-api as the protocol.

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

pan-python

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
admin_password required		password for admin user
admin_username	Default: admin	username for admin user
commit bool	Choices: no yes ←	commit if changed
ip_address required		IP address (or hostname) of PAN-OS device.
password required		Password for authentication.
role		role for admin user
username	Default: admin	Username for authentication.

Examples ¶

# Set the password of user admin to "badpassword"
# Doesn't commit the candidate config
  - name: set admin password
    panos_admin:
      ip_address: "192.168.1.1"
      password: "admin"
      admin_username: admin
      admin_password: "badpassword"
      commit: False

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
status string	success	success status Sample: okey dokey

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author ¶

Luigi Mori (@jtschichold), Ivan Bojer (@ivanbojer)

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