- 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.
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<div><b>Deprecated</b></div>
<div>Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using <code>connection: network_cli</code>.</div>
<div>For more information please see the <a href='../network/getting_started/network_differences.html#multiple-communication-protocols'>Network Guide</a>.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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 <code>ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD</code> will be used instead.</div>
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<div>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 <code>ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE</code> will be used instead.</div>
<div>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.</div>
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<div>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 <code>ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME</code> will be used instead.</div>
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<div>The banner text that should be present in the remote device running configuration. This argument accepts a multiline string, with no empty lines. Requires <em>state=present</em>.</div>
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Notes
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..note::
- Tested against VyOS 1.1.8 (helium).
- This module works with connection ``network_cli``. See `the VyOS OS Platform Options <../network/user_guide/platform_vyos.html>`_.
- For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the :ref:`Ansible Network Guide <network_guide>`
Examples
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..code-block::yaml+jinja
-name:configure the pre-login banner
vyos.vyos.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.vyos.vyos_banner:
banner:post-login
state:absent
Return Values
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Common return values are documented `here <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/common_return_values.html#common-return-values>`_, the following are the fields unique to this module:
<div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">['banner pre-login', 'this is my pre-login banner', 'that contains a multiline', 'string']</div>
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Status
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Authors
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- Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)
..hint::
Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.