An ansible role to test existence of target objects in network nodes.

This role has the following three modes depends on the value of the variable, rntebr_mode (default: normal).

'normal' is a mode to run command on target network nodes to test existence of target objects by regex patterns or test these are not found if the value of variable rntebr_targets_should_be_found is false.

'dump' is a mode to run command on target network nodes and dump its result as a JSON file in the pre-defined format.

'dryrun' is a mode to run this role w/o running command on target network nodes actually. This should be useful to test given patterns match as expected.

• Python modules required by each ansible network modules you use

Variables should be customized for your use cases.

• rntebr_mode: 'dump' or 'dryrun' or other string including 'normal'
  • Set to 'dump' if you want dump the output of results of command run
  • Set to 'dryrun' if you just want to test regex pattern matches w/ reference data was given. (You need to prepare the reference data by yourself.)
  • Set to other string including 'normal' if you want to run command and test existence of target objects by finding regex matches given
• rntebr_targets_patterns: Regex patterns to search for target objects from outputs as a result of command run
• rntebr_res: Set to some results on 'dryrun' mode
• rntebr_dump_path: output file path on 'dump' mode
• rntebr_command: command to run on target network nodes on !'dryrun' mode

Other variables should not needed to be customized for most cases.

see also defaults/main.yml for default definitions of each variables and tests/files/*_evars_*.yml for .

see tests/playbook.yml

MIT

Satoru SATOH ssato@Github