Creating a napalm_get_config module to fetch device configurations us…

…ing NAPALM driver get_config method

napalm_ansible/modules/napalm_get_config.py

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+"""
+(c) 2020 Kirk Byers <[email protected]>
+(c) 2016 Elisa Jasinska <[email protected]>
+    Original prototype by David Barroso <[email protected]>
+
+This file is part of Ansible
+
+Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function
+import os.path
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
+
+
+# FIX for Ansible 2.8 moving this function and making it private
+# greatly simplified for napalm-ansible's use
+def return_values(obj):
+    """ Return native stringified values from datastructures.
+
+    For use with removing sensitive values pre-jsonification."""
+    yield str(obj)
+
+
+DOCUMENTATION = """
+---
+module: napalm_get_config
+author: "Anirudh Kamath (@anirudhkamath)"
+version_added: "2.9"
+short_description: "Gathers configuration from a network device via napalm"
+description:
+    - "Gathers configuration from a network device via the Python module napalm"
+requirements:
+    - napalm
+options:
+    hostname:
+        description:
+          - IP or FQDN of the device you want to connect to
+        required: False
+    username:
+        description:
+          - Username
+        required: False
+    password:
+        description:
+          - Password
+        required: False
+    dev_os:
+        description:
+          - OS of the device
+        required: False
+    provider:
+        description:
+          - Dictionary which acts as a collection of arguments used to define the characteristics
+            of how to connect to the device.
+            Note - hostname, username, password and dev_os must be defined in either provider
+            or local param
+            Note - local param takes precedence, e.g. hostname is preferred to provider['hostname']
+        required: False
+    timeout:
+        description:
+          - Time in seconds to wait for the device to respond
+        required: False
+        default: 60
+    optional_args:
+        description:
+          - Dictionary of additional arguments passed to underlying driver
+        required: False
+        default: None
+    retrieve:
+        description:
+            - Which configuration type you want to populate, default is all of them.
+        required: False
+        default: "all"
+    full:
+        description:
+            - Retrieve all the configuration. For instance, on ios, "sh run all".
+        required: False
+        default: False
+    sanitized:
+        description:
+            - Remove secret data
+        required: False
+        default: False
+"""
+
+EXAMPLES = """
+- name: Collect device configuration object using NAPALM
+  napalm_get_config:
+    hostname: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
+    username: "{{ user }}"
+    password: "{{ password }}"
+    dev_os: "os"
+  register: config_result
+
+- name: Write running config to backup file
+  copy:
+    content: "{{ config_result.napalm_config.running }}"
+    dest: "{{ file }}"
+"""
+
+RETURN = """
+napalm_config:
+    description: "The object returned is a dictionary with a key for each configuration store:
+        - running
+        - candidate
+        - startup
+    returned: always
+    type: dict
+    sample: "{
+        "running": "",
+        "startup": "",
+        "candidate": "",
+    }"
+"""
+
+napalm_found = False
+try:
+    from napalm import get_network_driver
+    from napalm.base import ModuleImportError
+
+    napalm_found = True
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
+
+def main():
+    module = AnsibleModule(
+        argument_spec=dict(
+            hostname=dict(type="str", required=False, aliases=["host"]),
+            username=dict(type="str", required=False),
+            password=dict(type="str", required=False, no_log=True),
+            provider=dict(type="dict", required=False),
+            timeout=dict(type="int", required=False, default=60),
+            optional_args=dict(required=False, type="dict", default=None),
+            dev_os=dict(type="str", required=False),
+            retrieve=dict(type="str", required=False, default=None),
+            full=dict(type="str", required=False, default=None),
+            sanitized=dict(type="str", required=False, default=None),
+        ),
+    )
+
+    if not napalm_found:
+        module.fail_json(msg="the python module napalm is required")
+
+    provider = module.params["provider"] or {}
+
+    no_log = ["password", "secret"]
+    for param in no_log:
+        if provider.get(param):
+            module.no_log_values.update(return_values(provider[param]))
+        if provider.get("optional_args") and provider["optional_args"].get(param):
+            module.no_log_values.update(
+                return_values(provider["optional_args"].get(param))
+            )
+        if module.params.get("optional_args") and module.params["optional_args"].get(
+            param
+        ):
+            module.no_log_values.update(
+                return_values(module.params["optional_args"].get(param))
+            )
+
+    # allow host or hostname
+    provider["hostname"] = provider.get("hostname", None) or provider.get("host", None)
+    # allow local params to override provider
+    for param, pvalue in provider.items():
+        if module.params.get(param) is not False:
+            module.params[param] = module.params.get(param) or pvalue
+
+    hostname = module.params["hostname"]
+    username = module.params["username"]
+    dev_os = module.params["dev_os"]
+    password = module.params["password"]
+    timeout = module.params["timeout"]
+    retrieve = module.params["retrieve"]
+    full = module.params["full"]
+    sanitized = module.params["sanitized"]
+
+    argument_check = {"hostname": hostname, "username": username, "dev_os": dev_os}
+    for key, val in argument_check.items():
+        if val is None:
+            module.fail_json(msg=str(key) + " is required")
+
+    if module.params["optional_args"] is None:
+        optional_args = {}
+    else:
+        optional_args = module.params["optional_args"]
+
+    try:
+        network_driver = get_network_driver(dev_os)
+    except ModuleImportError as e:
+        module.fail_json(msg="Failed to import napalm driver: " + str(e))
+
+    try:
+        device = network_driver(
+            hostname=hostname,
+            username=username,
+            password=password,
+            timeout=timeout,
+            optional_args=optional_args,
+        )
+        device.open()
+    except Exception as e:
+        module.fail_json(msg="cannot connect to device: " + str(e))
+
+    try:
+        get_config_kwargs = {} # kwargs should match driver specific `get_config` method specs
+        if retrieve is not None:
+            get_config_kwargs["retrieve"] = retrieve
+        if full is not None:
+            get_config_kwargs["full"] = full
+        if sanitized is not None:
+            get_config_kwargs["sanitized"] = sanitized
+        config_dict = device.get_config(**get_config_kwargs)
+        results = {
+            "changed": False,
+            "napalm_config": config_dict,
+        }
+    except Exception as e:
+        module.fail_json(msg="cannot retrieve device config:" + str(e))
+
+    module.exit_json(**results)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

napalm_ansible/plugins/action/napalm_get_config.py

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+napalm.py