Feature: Support for startup config in exos_config & exos_facts

[ng-bsy]

SUMMARY

To my understanding, exos_config and exos_facts only represent and let you manipulate or make backups of the current active (running) config.
For my use case I'd like to see the same possibilities for the saved (startup) config.
E.g.

• Make a backup of the current startup config via exos_config
• Get current startup config via exos_facts

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

• exos_config
• exos_facts

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

# use of exos_facts
- community.network.exos_facts:
    gather_subset: config
  register: exos_facts
- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg:
      - "{{ exos_facts.ansible_facts.ansible_net_config_startup }}"
      - "{{ exos_facts.ansible_facts.ansible_net_config_active }}"

# use of exos_config
- community.network.exos_config:
    backup: yes
    backup_options:
      filename: backup_startup.cfg
      dir_path: /home/user
    config: startup
      

Thanks a lot

[Andersson007]

@ng-bsy hello, thanks for reporting the issue!

cc (team_extreme) @LindsayHill @ujwalkomarla

in case someone new wants to pick it up, there's the Quick start dev guide

[ng-bsy]

For now I found a way, using netcommon, to do a manual backup of the startup config, but nontheless would it be nice to have the official modules support it:

- ansible.netcommon.net_get:
    src: nms.xsf
    dest: "{{ /home/user/startup_config"

[Andersson007]

@ng-bsy the task you posted looks like it has a simple interface, hasn't it?
Maybe rather than writing a new piece of code someone needs to maintain, would it be good just to put info about your solutions in related modules, e.g. in DOCUMENTATION and EXAMPLES sections?
Something like:

- name: Backup the startup config
  ansible.netcommon.net_get:
    src: nms.xsf
    dest: /home/user/startup_config

what do you think? If you're OK with it, would you like to do it using the Quick-start guide?