* Michael DeHaan, 2014-11-17 : > Basically this isn't going to end well.
Can you elaborate? > The 'raw' module is useful for sending to devices that look like Unix > shells, but some things are too weird to work this way. Right, hence the proposal to extend it to offer a chat-script-style facility. > The right way to go with Cisco is going to be to get modules speaking to > OnePK or NXOS APIs - similar to what has happened with Juniper or Arista. > (things like Cumulus don't need them, because it's got a real SSH > environment we can use like Linux). > > In any case, I don't want to go down the 'parse CLI' path for Cisco, and > we're in touch with Cisco about modules for Ansible -- but it's been slow > going. We're not talking Cisco hardware here but Brocade switches, and various other devices with limited interactive access over SSH. This is for very specialized cases, and I doubt it would be worthwhile to create a specific module for each such niche device. Thomas. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/20141118100210.GB18138%40melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
