Add shell commands

[spidercensus]

Enhancement request:

Please provide a way to run BSD shell commands from Ansible playbooks.
Using PyEZ we can do this from the StartShell module:

from jnpr.junos import Device
from jnpr.junos.utils.start_shell import StartShell
d = Device(host,user,passwd)
d.open()
with StartShell(d) as shell:
  shell.run("echo /etc/passwd")

[stacywsmith]

This can be done today using the <request-shell-execute> RPC:

user@h0:~/$ cat pb.rpc_shell_example.yaml 
---
- name: 'Execute a shell command'
  hosts: junos-all
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  roles:
    - Juniper.junos

  tasks:
    - name: 'Get the /etc/passwd file'
      juniper_junos_rpc:
        rpc: 'request-shell-execute'
        kwarg:
          command: 'cat /etc/passwd'
      register: response
    - name: 'Print response'
      debug:
        var: response.parsed_output.output

Running the playbook produces:

user@h0:~/$ ansible-playbook -k --limit r0 ./pb.rpc_shell_example.yaml 
SSH password: 

PLAY [Execute a shell command] *****************************************************************************************

TASK [Get the /etc/passwd file] ****************************************************************************************
ok: [r0]

TASK [Print response] **************************************************************************************************
ok: [r0] => {
    "response.parsed_output.output": "root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/sbin/nologin operator:*:2:5:System &:/:/sbin/nologin tty:*:4:65533:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin kmem:*:5:65533:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin sshd:*:22:22:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin ext:*:39:39:External applications:/:/sbin/nologin bind:*:53:53:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin uucp:*:66:66:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/sbin/nologin nobody:*:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin regress:*:928:20::/var/home/regress:/bin/csh remote:*:2000:20::/var/home/remote:/usr/sbin/cli user:*:2001:20::/var/home/user:/usr/sbin/cli user1:*:2002:20::/var/home/user1:/usr/sbin/cli user2:*:2003:20::/var/home/user2:/usr/sbin/cli"
}

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************
r0                         : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0   

[spidercensus]

True, but request-shell-execute is not supported on all devices and Junos versions.