* 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.

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