# run ansible on arbor appliance **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [November 25, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997 "2013-11-25T19:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vadud3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vadud3](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vadud3)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997/1 "2013-11-25T19:25:29Z")
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 \<\ 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 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997/2 "2013-11-26T01:10:26Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![vadud3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vadud3](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vadud3)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997/3 "2013-11-26T13:28:20Z")
Once you ssh to arbor, you will need to type shell to get a bash shell. From there it is pure linux. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997/4 "2013-11-26T13:58:01Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![vadud3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vadud3](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vadud3)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997/5 "2013-11-26T16:55:28Z")
> 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 ☹ 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 > ~$ ---
**Author:** ![vadud3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vadud3](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vadud3)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997/6 "2013-11-26T18:09:52Z")
> 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 ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Hite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@Matt\_Hite](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Matt_Hite)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997/7 "2013-12-14T00:17:53Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![vadud3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vadud3](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vadud3)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-ansible-on-arbor-appliance/13997/8 "2016-03-14T14:04:56Z")
> 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