.. _arista.eos.eos_banner_module:


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arista.eos.eos_banner
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**Manage multiline banners on Arista EOS devices**


Version added: 1.0.0

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Synopsis
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- This will configure both login and motd banners on remote devices running Arista EOS.  It allows playbooks to add or remote banner text from the active running configuration.




Parameters
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                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>banner</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                         / <span style="color: red">required</span>
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                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li>login</li>
                                    <li>motd</li>
                        </ul>
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                <td>
                        <div>Specifies which banner that should be configured on the remote device.</div>
                </td>
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                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>provider</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">dictionary</span>
                    </div>
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                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div><b>Deprecated</b></div>
                        <div>Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using <code>connection: network_cli</code>.</div>
                        <div>Starting with Ansible 2.6 we recommend using <code>connection: httpapi</code> for eAPI.</div>
                        <div>This option will be removed in a release after 2022-06-01.</div>
                        <div>For more information please see the <a href='../network/user_guide/platform_eos.html'>EOS Platform Options guide</a>.</div>
                        <div><hr/></div>
                        <div>A dict object containing connection details.</div>
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>auth_pass</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
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                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device.  If <em>authorize</em> is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS</code> will be used instead.</div>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>authorize</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
                    </div>
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                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>no</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                                    <li>yes</li>
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands.  If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE</code> will be used instead.</div>
                </td>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>host</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>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.</div>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>password</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device.  This is a common argument used for either <em>cli</em> or <em>eapi</em> transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD</code> will be used instead.</div>
                </td>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>port</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">integer</span>
                    </div>
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                <td>
                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">0</div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.  This value applies to either <em>cli</em> or <em>eapi</em>.</div>
                        <div>The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task (cli=22, http=80, https=443).</div>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>ssh_keyfile</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">path</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device.  This argument is only used for <em>cli</em> transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE</code> will be used instead.</div>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>timeout</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">integer</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>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.</div>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>transport</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>cli</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                                    <li>eapi</li>
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.</div>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>use_proxy</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li>no</li>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>yes</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>If <code>no</code>, the environment variables <code>http_proxy</code> and <code>https_proxy</code> will be ignored.</div>
                </td>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>use_ssl</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li>no</li>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>yes</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Configures the <em>transport</em> to use SSL if set to <code>yes</code> only when the <code>transport=eapi</code>.  If the transport argument is not eapi, this value is ignored.</div>
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                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>username</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device.  This value is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the eAPI authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable <code>ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME</code> will be used instead.</div>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                    <td class="elbow-placeholder"></td>
                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>validate_certs</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">boolean</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li>no</li>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>yes</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>If <code>no</code>, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.  If the transport argument is not eapi, this value is ignored.</div>
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                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>state</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>present</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                                    <li>absent</li>
                        </ul>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>Specifies whether or not the configuration is present in the current devices active running configuration.</div>
                </td>
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                <td colspan="2">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>text</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#parameter-" title="Permalink to this option"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>
                </td>
                <td>
                        <div>The banner text that should be present in the remote device running configuration.  This argument accepts a multiline string. Requires <em>state=present</em>.</div>
                </td>
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Notes
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.. note::
   - Tested against EOS 4.15
   - For information on using CLI, eAPI and privileged mode see the :ref:`EOS Platform Options guide <eos_platform_options>`
   - For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the :ref:`Ansible Network Guide <network_guide>`
   - For more information on using Ansible to manage Arista EOS devices see the `Arista integration page <https://www.ansible.com/ansible-arista-networks>`_.



Examples
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.. code-block:: yaml

    - name: configure the login banner
      arista.eos.eos_banner:
        banner: login
        text: |
          this is my login banner
          that contains a multiline
          string
        state: present

    - name: remove the motd banner
      arista.eos.eos_banner:
        banner: motd
        state: absent



Return Values
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Common return values are documented `here <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/common_return_values.html#common-return-values>`_, the following are the fields unique to this module:

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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
                    <b>commands</b>
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                    <div style="font-size: small">
                      <span style="color: purple">list</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>always</td>
                <td>
                            <div>The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device</div>
                    <br/>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller"><b>Sample:</b></div>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">[&#x27;banner login&#x27;, &#x27;this is my login banner&#x27;, &#x27;that contains a multiline&#x27;, &#x27;string&#x27;, &#x27;EOF&#x27;]</div>
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                <td colspan="1">
                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="return-"></div>
                    <b>session_name</b>
                    <a class="ansibleOptionLink" href="#return-" title="Permalink to this return value"></a>
                    <div style="font-size: small">
                      <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                    </div>
                </td>
                <td>if changes</td>
                <td>
                            <div>The EOS config session name used to load the configuration</div>
                    <br/>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller"><b>Sample:</b></div>
                        <div style="font-size: smaller; color: blue; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-all;">ansible_1479315771</div>
                </td>
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Status
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Authors
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- Peter Sprygada (@privateip)
