vyos_banner - Manage multiline banners on VyOS devices¶

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

This will configure both pre-login and post-login banners on remote devices running VyOS. It allows playbooks to add or remote banner text from the active running configuration.

Parameters ¶

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
banner required		Choices: pre-login post-login	Specifies which banner that should be configured on the remote device.
provider			Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using `connection: network_cli`. For more information please see the Network Guide. A dict object containing connection details.
	username		Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
	host required		Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
	ssh_keyfile		Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE` will be used instead.
	timeout	Default: 10	Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
	password		Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
	port	Default: 22	Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
state		Choices: present ← absent	Specifies whether or not the configuration is present in the current devices active running configuration.
text			The banner text that should be present in the remote device running configuration. This argument accepts a multiline string, with no empty lines. Requires state=present.

Notes ¶

Note

Tested against VYOS 1.1.7
For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

Examples ¶

- name: configure the pre-login banner
  vyos_banner:
    banner: pre-login
    text: |
      this is my pre-login banner
      that contains a multiline
      string
    state: present
- name: remove the post-login banner
  vyos_banner:
    banner: post-login
    state: absent

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
commands list	always	The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device Sample: ['banner pre-login', 'this is my pre-login banner', 'that contains a multiline', 'string']

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 network which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

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

Support ¶

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author ¶

Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)

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