Use of SSH commands instead of API calls

[Keeper-of-the-Keys]

It is my understanding that the API has had a way to run raw commands since v1 often referred to as AnyCLI or AnyBatch.

I checked the 16.10/API v7 reference and it does have a CliCommand object, though not supporting every available command it would still be useful since it would allow some commands (show *) currently not available through the API in Ansible to run under the same user/context as the rest of the module.

[tchiapuziowong]

Hi @Keeper-of-the-Keys !

We do have SSH command modules available for the AOS-Switch platform - please see on this that shows how to enable SSH and this on how to use the modules!

[Keeper-of-the-Keys]

The point is that we have different auth methods for SSH and web and that ansible will only take one password as far as I can tell (at least in interactive tests, of course I could try putting it in as vars).

Either way it seems like it would make sense to also allow the API SSH commands instead of "direct" SSH commands.

[Keeper-of-the-Keys]

And thanks for the lightspeed reply!

[alagoutte]

+1

[zenchaos]

+1