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:
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What is the error?
What is the output?
And what is Postman?
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:
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.
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:search-criteria
xmlns=“http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/filter”>
YourActualDeviceName
</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=](http://www.ca.com/spectrum/restful/schema/response
total-models=)“156” throttle=“156” error=“EndOfResults”>
192.168.74.63
192.168.74.63
Request for Help:
How can I extract the ‘mh’ value from the XML response using Ansible?
Once I have the ‘mh’ value, how can I dynamically replace it in the Maintenance Mode API URL?