Ansible Modules for HP Switches (Comware 7)

[Gineesh]

I was developing some latest playbooks for HP Switches (HP 5130 - CMW710) and noticed the 3rd party modules (refer link below) are not working any more with latest Ansible version (ansible 2.9.9). Also I found the repository is not maintained anymore (or last update was few years ago).

• Module Repo : https://github.com/HPENetworking/ansible-hpe-cw7

• Documentation : https://hp-ansible.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Could anyone advise if there are Ansible modules for HP switches ? (eg: HP 5130)

Or any other best practice to implement Ansible for HP Network Automation ?

Notes:

• I have tried raw, cli_commands like modules to achieve the dirty way of executing commands, but failed with those.

• Already enabled netconf on devices but still fail with ansible_connection=network_cli or ansible_connection=netconf

Thanks in advance.

[hal2069]

I am also interested in the topic :)

[ginigangadharan]

we have already dropped that plan to use those and used direct "raw" commands instead

[MaximeA]

I also think it's not maintained anymore. Getting errors while trying simple comware_ping & comware_facts command. I'm using Ansible 2.9.16.

[ginigangadharan]

Yeah. 
we have already dropped that plan to use those and used direct "raw" commands instead

[Markolo95]

Hy!

How did you achieve to use the "cli_command"? I mean what did you use at "ansible_network_os", and "connection"?

Thanks.

[Gineesh]

my apologies as I have overlooked this question.

Hope you have already found a solution for the same.

Anyway, sharing from my side (as per my old records as it was done in middle of 2020) 

[labds:vars]

ansible_network_os=auto

ansible_connection=netconf

ansible_password=password

ansible_username=hpuser

ansible_user=hpuser

ansible_ssh_user=hpuser

[bad]

Hello,

Have included these variables:

ansible_connection=netconf

ansible_network_os=auto

Although still giving me this error:

{
"module_stdout": "",
"module_stderr": "command timeout triggered, timeout value is 30 secs.\nSee the timeout setting options in the Network Debug and Troubleshooting Guide.",
"msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
"_ansible_no_log": false,
"changed": false
}

[Juan3]

Is netconf enabled? 

The ansible_connection var is netconf then the switch needs to have it enabled and configured. 

It looks like the stderr message is a timeout which makes me wonder if netconf is enabled or not or something in the middle is not allowing it. 

http://www.h3c.com/en/Support/Resource_Center/EN/Home/Switches/00-Public/Configure___Deploy/Configur...

[bad]

@Juan3 my bad, I'm running this playbook on a HP A5500, which have a Comware 5.20.99:

---

- hosts: hp

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

    - name: Bootstrap a host without python2 installed

      ansible.builtin.raw: display current-configuration

      register: config