Ansible hanging via SSH

[Montana]

Hey PaloAltoNetworks,

Just for a glance over, I have a setup similar to this:

- name: montana
      panos_commit_firewall:
        provider: '{{ provider }}'

As you've probably guessed now I'm using the admpwd, there was link to an issue, and surprisingly the person had a GCP VM-Series firewall, which I have the same. I'm very familiar with .yml, so I know my inventory.yml is correct, I also have my connection:local. Thought this might be worth posting about, I'll do a hard reset. I've shut the GCP VM down before by just running in CentOS:

sudo shutdown -h now

I'm thinking this might also have to do with a setIamPolicy. In the mean time, I'll do a hard reset, I doubt that'll work -- but you never know.

Thank you so much guys!

Cheers, Montana Mendy.

[welcome-to-palo-alto-networks[bot]]

:tada: Thanks for opening your first issue here! Welcome to the community!

[npmguy]

hey @montana have you tested with both python3 and python2 environments on panorama instances launched in was?

[Montana]

I ended up enforcing a new library into the panos_admpwd module:

from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text

This ultimately acts like an wrapper for PROMPTBUFF, so next it should look like this:

shell.recv(_PROMPTBUFF) with to_text(shell.recv(_PROMPTBUFF))

I've found this is a non-breaking change which fixes my issue. To be clear though, yes I've tried the python2 and python3 environments.

Thank you for the questions!

Cheers, Montana Mendy

[RyanMBess]

Has palo released a fix for this?

[jamesholland-uk]

Hi folks, what is the root problem for this one? Personally, I have been doing a bunch of testing on five different major/minor versions of PAN-OS, five different VM-Series in GCP, and configured them all with a playbook including this task, which worked fine:

    - name: Admin password (includes a commit)
      paloaltonetworks.panos.panos_admpwd:
        ip_address: '{{ ip_address }}'
        username: '{{ username }}'
        key_filename: "./ssh.key"
        newpassword: '{{ password }}'
      register: result
      until: "result is not failed"
      retries: 10
      delay: 3

Can someone clarify which module is problematic, under which situations and conditions, etc? Thanks :-)

[jamesholland-uk]

Closing for now. Please reopen if you can clarify what the issue is, the sample code, the error/behaviour experienced, etc. Thanks :-)