Network Automation Basics - Surveys

[carlosfparada]

There are a couple of issues with this demo.

1. The variable name of the second question is sometimes referred as banner_type and others as net_type (sample image, initial text, guide text).
2. Validation check fails on second exercise (create survey) using the provided values. I tried with several combinations of variable names (referred in 1.), not setting login as default (as it is when you skip the exercise), but nothing works.
   Best regards
   Carlos Parada

[IPvSean]

Sorry for the delay here, I somehow missed this issue and investigating now.

[IPvSean]

the lab is now updated to AAP 2.4 on RHEL9 and I updated the Cisco CSR image from 17.3.1 to 17.3.9, testing now

[IPvSean]

The variable name of the second question is sometimes referred as banner_type and others as net_type (sample image, initial text, guide text).

This is fixed, good find!

Validation check fails on second exercise (create survey) using the provided values. I tried with several combinations of variable names (referred in 1.), not setting login as default (as it is when you skip the exercise), but nothing works.

the check for the 2nd exercise... not written well, I have temporarily fixed it for now with a simpler check... will circle back next week to write a better check. Basically it would fail if even a capital letter was off slightly, which is stupid IMHO and not the goal of the exercise.

Thank you for opening the issue!

[IPvSean]

I have a better test in there now:

Here is the test if you are curious

#!/bin/bash

tee /home/rhel/check_challenege_2.yml << EOF
---
- hosts: localhost
  vars: 
    desired_job_template: 'Network-Banner'
  tasks:
    - name: retrieve Network-Banner job template
      set_fact: 
        network_banner_exist: "{{ query('awx.awx.controller_api', 'job_templates', query_params={ 'name': desired_job_template }, host='localhost', username='admin', password='ansible123!', verify_ssl=False) }}"
 
    - name: print out network_banner_exist var
      debug: 
        msg: "{{ network_banner_exist }}"
      failed_when: network_banner_exist == []

    - name: fail when survey is not enabled
      debug: 
        msg: "Is a survey enabled for {{ desired_job_template }}? {{ network_banner_exist[0].survey_enabled }}"
      failed_when: not network_banner_exist[0].survey_enabled
EOF

sudo chown rhel:rhel /home/rhel/check_challenege_2.yml

su - rhel -c 'ansible-playbook /home/rhel/check_challenege_2.yml'

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo OK
else
    /usr/bin/fail-message "The job 'Network-Banner' does not have the survey enabled"
fi