panos_lic timer

[torstenstern]

Good morning,

i play in the last time a lot with the ansible and i think that we need in this module a timer how will stop the script after the applying of the auth_codes was sucessful, becasue the FW will reboot automatically and i lost everytime the connection and the script will fail...off course and therefore would it be really helpful to have an timer in this script of 60 - 180 seconds.

[kquilliam]

In the meantime, a reasonable workaround that Ive used for upgrading Juniper devices is to add a wait_for task after the reboot kicks off that keeps the rest of the playbook from failing.

- name: Pause for reboot after upgrade
  wait_for:
    port: 22
    host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    delay: 420
    timeout: 1500
    sleep: 5

This tells it to start checking for port 22 after 420 seconds, then poll the port every 5 seconds up to 1500 seconds(including the delay).

[torstenstern]

Hi,

is there any update on this?

[shinmog]

This will be fixed in v2.1.0. Use panos_check with an initial_delay of a minute or two.