Re: [ansible-devel] sshconnection vs terminal vs httpapi vs shell plugins

2023-07-10 Thread 'Sumanth Lingappa' via Ansible Development
Thank you Brian. Your first email response will be helpful to decide in my situation. Thanks again. On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 at 19:30, Brian Coca wrote: > That is not something I feel i can give advice on as I don't know the > product well and have no idea about your resource availability and > obje

Re: [ansible-devel] sshconnection vs terminal vs httpapi vs shell plugins

2023-07-10 Thread Brian Coca
That is not something I feel i can give advice on as I don't know the product well and have no idea about your resource availability and objectives. Context is everything and as an outsider I barely have a sliver of it nor will you be able to give me enough in a few emails to give you relevant adv

Re: [ansible-devel] sshconnection vs terminal vs httpapi vs shell plugins

2023-07-09 Thread 'Sumanth Lingappa' via Ansible Development
Thank you for your response Brian. Can you please help me to decide the following? *Do you see any advantage for us if we rewrite with new plugins than sticking to our ssh-connection?* We have a ssh-connection plugin written almost 5 years ago. Examples you can find here: https://github.com/citr

Re: [ansible-devel] sshconnection vs terminal vs httpapi vs shell plugins

2023-07-06 Thread Brian Coca
shell plugins are basically for dealing with common commands in different shell environments, i.e create a temp dir, figure out the remote user home, etc terminal plugins are really regex for matching prompts when not using a shell, they are for use with netcli/net_conf plugins httpapi/netcli/net

[ansible-devel] sshconnection vs terminal vs httpapi vs shell plugins

2023-07-05 Thread 'Sumanth Lingappa' via Ansible Development
Hello, community, I am currently working on writing a new set of NetScaler collections for ansible. We already have a collection maintained at https://github.com/citrix/citrix-adc-ansible-modules I would like to extend this OR entirely change it to better. NetScaler ADC under the hood is a Free