# junos_command – Run arbitrary commands on an Juniper JUNOS device

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## Synopsis

- Sends an arbitrary set of commands to an JUNOS node and returns the results read from the device. This module includes an argument that will cause the module to wait for a specific condition before returning or timing out if the condition is not met.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- jxmlease

- ncclient (>=v0.5.2)

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
commands - |  | The commands to send to the remote junos device over the configured provider. The resulting output from the command is returned. If the wait_for argument is provided, the module is not returned until the condition is satisfied or the number of retries has been exceeded.

display
-

Choices:
- text
- json
- xml
- set

Default:
"depends on input argument I(rpcs) or I(commands)"

Encoding scheme to use when serializing output from the device. This handles how to properly understand the output and apply the conditionals path to the result set. For rpcs argument default display is `xml` and for commands argument default display is `text`. Value `set` is applicable only for fetching configuration from device.
aliases: format, output

interval - | Default: 1 | Configures the interval in seconds to wait between retries of the command. If the command does not pass the specified conditional, the interval indicates how to long to wait before trying the command again.

match
-

Choices:
- any
- all ←

The match argument is used in conjunction with the wait_for argument to specify the match policy. Valid values are `all` or `any`. If the value is set to `all` then all conditionals in the wait_for must be satisfied. If the value is set to `any` then only one of the values must be satisfied.

provider
dictionary

Deprecated
Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using `connection: network_cli` or `connection: netconf`.
For more information please see the Junos OS Platform Options guide.

A dict object containing connection details.

| host string / required |  | Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
| password string |  | Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
| port integer | Default: 22 | Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. The port value will default to the well known SSH port of 22 (for `transport=cli`) or port 830 (for `transport=netconf`) device.
| ssh_keyfile path |  | Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE` will be used instead.
| timeout integer | Default: 10 | Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
| username string |  | Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
retries - | Default: 10 | Specifies the number of retries a command should be tried before it is considered failed. The command is run on the target device every retry and evaluated against the wait_for conditionals.
rpcs - |  | The `rpcs` argument accepts a list of RPCs to be executed over a netconf session and the results from the RPC execution is return to the playbook via the modules results dictionary.
wait_for - |  | Specifies what to evaluate from the output of the command and what conditionals to apply. This argument will cause the task to wait for a particular conditional to be true before moving forward. If the conditional is not true by the configured retries, the task fails. See examples. aliases: waitfor

## Notes

Note

- This module requires the netconf system service be enabled on the remote device being managed.

- Tested against vSRX JUNOS version 15.1X49-D15.4, vqfx-10000 JUNOS Version 15.1X53-D60.4.

- Recommended connection is `netconf`. See the Junos OS Platform Options.

- This module also works with `network_cli` connections and with `local` connections for legacy playbooks.

- For information on using CLI and netconf see the Junos OS Platform Options guide

- For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

- For more information on using Ansible to manage Juniper network devices see https://www.ansible.com/ansible-juniper.

## Examples

    - name: run show version on remote devices
      junos_command:
        commands: show version

    - name: run show version and check to see if output contains Juniper
      junos_command:
        commands: show version
        wait_for: result[0] contains Juniper

    - name: run multiple commands on remote nodes
      junos_command:
        commands:
          - show version
          - show interfaces

    - name: run multiple commands and evaluate the output
      junos_command:
        commands:
          - show version
          - show interfaces
        wait_for:
          - result[0] contains Juniper
          - result[1] contains Loopback0

    - name: run commands and specify the output format
      junos_command:
        commands: show version
        display: json

    - name: run rpc on the remote device
      junos_command:
        commands: show configuration
        display: set

    - name: run rpc on the remote device
      junos_command:
        rpcs: get-software-information

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
failed_conditions list | failed | The list of conditionals that have failed Sample: ['...', '...']
output list | If the display is in `xml` format. | The set of transformed xml to json format from the commands responses Sample: ['...', '...']
stdout list | always apart from low level errors (such as action plugin) | The set of responses from the commands Sample: ['...', '...']
stdout_lines list | always apart from low level errors (such as action plugin) | The value of stdout split into a list Sample: [['...', '...'], ['...'], ['...']]

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. [network]

### Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

### Authors

- Peter Sprygada (@privateip)

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