run ansible on arbor appliance

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Hi All

I am trying to run ansible on arbor appliances.

To run ssh remotely and get data from arbor appliance you will need to run it like this

$ echo “uname -a; exit” | ssh -qtt atl-col-01 shell

uname -a; exit

uname -a; exit
Linux atl-col-01 2.6.18-arbux26 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 2 16:16:46 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
exit

$

OR like this

$ ssh -qtt atl-col-01 shell

uname -a
Linux atl-col-01 2.6.18-arbux26 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 2 16:16:46 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
exit
exit

$

OR like this

$ ssh -qtt atl-col-01 shell <<EOF

uname -a
exit
EOF
uname -a
exit
uname -a
Linux atl-col-01 2.6.18-arbux26 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 2 16:16:46 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
exit
exit

I was trying to do the same with playbook

$ cat file.yml

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I’m not familiar with Arbor Networks internals personally

Possible options:

try scp instead of SFTP in ansible.cfg
see if you can configure something to give you a login shell
just use “raw” commands
see if there’s a API and do something closer to what’s done with the Arista and F5 modules

etc?

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Once you ssh to arbor, you will need to type shell to get a bash shell. From there it is pure linux.

4

Yeah that’s not really going to work well in current state, because the system won’t know to run the “shell” command.

There’s no way to configure a regular shell account?

5

Yeah that’s not really going to work well in current state, because the system won’t know to run the “shell” command.

There’s no way to configure a regular shell account?

There is a way to provide regular shell account, but appliance upgrade overwrites it. Plus Arbor guys discouraging it too :frowning:

If we can only redefine ssh as “ssh -ttt remotehost shell” we would be golden. Here is how we run things manually.

~$ ssh atl-col-01
Last login: Tue Nov 26 16:45:52 2013 from 192.168.0.248

ArbOS v5.2
Copyright (c) 2000-2013 Arbor Networks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Welcome to ArbOS

admin@atl-col-01:/# shell

uname -a
Linux atl-col-01 2.6.18-arbux26 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 2 16:16:46 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
exit

exit
admin@atl-col-01:/# exit
Connection to atl-col-01 closed.
~$

Here is how we run it interactively using a script which I like to replace with ansible

~$ echo “uname -a; exit” | ssh -qtt atl-col-01 shell
uname -a; exit

uname -a; exit
Linux atl-col-01 2.6.18-arbux26 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 2 16:16:46 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
exit
~$

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I’m not familiar with Arbor Networks internals personally

Possible options:

try scp instead of SFTP in ansible.cfg
see if you can configure something to give you a login shell
just use “raw” commands

With raw I am getting the same output

$ ansible atl-col-01 -u admin -m raw -a “shell; uname -a” -i hosts
atl-col-01 | success | rc=0 >>
120: Invalid command

It is trying to run bash'' or like instead of shell’'. How do I know that? Because I can generate similar output manually

admin@atl-col-01:/# sh
110: Ambiguous command
admin@atl-col-01:/# bash
120: Invalid command

admin@atl-col-01:/# shell

uname -a
Linux atl-col-01 2.6.18-arbux26 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 2 16:16:46 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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Hi, Asif. I have considered writing an Arbor module (using their API). The initial “itch” I wanted to "scratch’ was to manage network/customer object entities.

What is it that you hope to accomplish?

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Hi, Asif. I have considered writing an Arbor module (using their API). The initial “itch” I wanted to "scratch’ was to manage network/customer object entities.

What is it that you hope to accomplish?

Essentially run remote command to find resource status