.. _cisco.nxos.nxos_banner_module:


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cisco.nxos.nxos_banner
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**Manage multiline banners on Cisco NXOS devices**


Version added: 1.0.0

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Synopsis
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- This will configure both exec and motd banners on remote devices running Cisco NXOS. It allows playbooks to add or remove banner text from the active running configuration.




Parameters
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                    <div class="ansibleOptionAnchor" id="parameter-"></div>
                    <b>banner</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
                         / <span style="color: red">required</span>
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                        <ul style="margin: 0; padding: 0"><b>Choices:</b>
                                    <li>exec</li>
                                    <li>motd</li>
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                        <div>Specifies which banner that should be configured on the remote device.</div>
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                    <b>multiline_delimiter</b>
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                        <span style="color: purple">string</span>
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                        <b>Default:</b><br/><div style="color: blue">"@"</div>
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                        <div>Specify the delimiting character than will be used for configuration.</div>
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                    <b>state</b>
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                                    <li><div style="color: blue"><b>present</b>&nbsp;&larr;</div></li>
                                    <li>absent</li>
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                        <div>Specifies whether or not the configuration is present in the current devices active running configuration.</div>
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                    <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>
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                        <div>The banner text that should be present in the remote device running configuration. This argument accepts a multiline string, with no empty lines. Requires <em>state=present</em>.</div>
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Notes
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.. note::
   - Since responses from the device are always read with surrounding whitespaces stripped, tasks that configure banners with preceeding or trailing whitespaces will not be idempotent.
   - Limited Support for Cisco MDS
   - For information on using CLI and NX-API see the :ref:`NXOS Platform Options guide <nxos_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 Cisco devices see the `Cisco integration page <https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/cisco>`_.



Examples
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.. code-block:: yaml

    - name: configure the exec banner
      cisco.nxos.nxos_banner:
        banner: exec
        text: |
          this is my exec banner
          that contains a multiline
          string
        state: present
    - name: remove the motd banner
      cisco.nxos.nxos_banner:
        banner: motd
        state: absent
    - name: Configure banner from file
      cisco.nxos.nxos_banner:
        banner: motd
        text: "{{ lookup('file', './config_partial/raw_banner.cfg') }}"
        state: present



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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                <td>always</td>
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                            <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 exec&#x27;, &#x27;this is my exec banner&#x27;, &#x27;that contains a multiline&#x27;, &#x27;string&#x27;]</div>
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Status
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Authors
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- Trishna Guha (@trishnaguha)
