Backup does not work (the whole config module)

[mowgli]

Currently I struggle to get the modules to work.

First of all, to have something to compare to, I made the backup with the old Cloudengine module:

  tasks:
    - name: Backup huawei
      community.network.ce_config:
        backup: true
        backup_options:
          filename: "{{ inventory_hostname }}.conf"

This works pretty well with network os set to community.network.ce. But it is only the backup that is working as if system-view is needed, it breaks. (Easy fixable but unmaintained code.

So huawei recommend to use this module and I gave it a try. Unfortunately unsuccessful in all aspects until now.

Here are some errors which I stumble on. later I will report some changes to the docu part that at least it can be viewed.

With the following snipped:

  tasks:
    - name: Backup huawei
      huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config:
        backup: true
        local_file: "{{ inventory_hostname }}.conf"
        local_file_path: backup

… and network os set to huaweidatacom.ne.ne, I get the following error:

TASK [Backup huawei] *******************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'regex'
fatal: [hl-1-h]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution: No module named 'regex'", "stdout": ""}

When using community.network.ce as network setting (which is, except the use of r'…' instead of br'…' identical to the one in huaweidatacom.ne.ne) I get the following error:

TASK [Backup huawei] *******************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ansible.module_utils.common.yaml'
fatal: [hl-1-h]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_wx7pm1ew/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/module_utils/network/ne/ne.py\", line 40, in <module>\nImportError: cannot import name 'display' from '__main__' (/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_wx7pm1ew/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/modules/ne_config.py)\n\nDuring handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:\n\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/home/ethgen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-399097w77wrt/ansible-tmp-1744717171.0218625-4005-45067270456834/AnsiballZ_ne_config.py\", line 107, in <module>\n    _ansiballz_main()\n  File \"/home/ethgen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-399097w77wrt/ansible-tmp-1744717171.0218625-4005-45067270456834/AnsiballZ_ne_config.py\", line 99, in _ansiballz_main\n    invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\n  File \"/home/ethgen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-399097w77wrt/ansible-tmp-1744717171.0218625-4005-45067270456834/AnsiballZ_ne_config.py\", line 47, in invoke_module\n    runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.huaweidatacom.ne.plugins.modules.ne_config', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.huaweidatacom.ne.plugins.modules.ne_config', _modlib_path=modlib_path),\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 226, in run_module\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 98, in _run_module_code\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 88, in _run_code\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_wx7pm1ew/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/modules/ne_config.py\", line 253, in <module>\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_wx7pm1ew/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/module_utils/network/ne/ne.py\", line 42, in <module>\n  File \"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/utils/display.py\", line 49, in <module>\n    from ansible import constants as C\n  File \"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/constants.py\", line 12, in <module>\n    from ansible.config.manager import ConfigManager\n  File \"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/config/manager.py\", line 21, in <module>\n    from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_load\nModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ansible.module_utils.common.yaml'\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

For your information, I used the modules installed via ansible-galaxy collection install huaweidatacom.ne.

If I patch the module with the latest upstream (from ansible.module_utils.common.yaml import yaml_load), I get a different error:

TASK [Backup huawei] *******************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ansible.module_utils.connection.ConnectionError: bad escape \V at position 13
fatal: [hl-1-h]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/home/ethgen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-7476ryt7ia5y/ansible-tmp-1744718335.4013011-7491-198063315622944/AnsiballZ_ne_config.py\", line 107, in <module>\n    _ansiballz_main()\n  File \"/home/ethgen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-7476ryt7ia5y/ansible-tmp-1744718335.4013011-7491-198063315622944/AnsiballZ_ne_config.py\", line 99, in _ansiballz_main\n    invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\n  File \"/home/ethgen/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-7476ryt7ia5y/ansible-tmp-1744718335.4013011-7491-198063315622944/AnsiballZ_ne_config.py\", line 47, in invoke_module\n    runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.huaweidatacom.ne.plugins.modules.ne_config', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.huaweidatacom.ne.plugins.modules.ne_config', _modlib_path=modlib_path),\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 226, in run_module\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 98, in _run_module_code\n  File \"<frozen runpy>\", line 88, in _run_code\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_ldtjwk0y/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/modules/ne_config.py\", line 637, in <module>\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_ldtjwk0y/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/modules/ne_config.py\", line 581, in main\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_ldtjwk0y/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/modules/ne_config.py\", line 357, in backup_config\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_ldtjwk0y/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/module_utils/network/ne/ne.py\", line 277, in run_commands\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_ldtjwk0y/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/module_utils/network/ne/ne.py\", line 94, in get_connection\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_ldtjwk0y/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible_collections/huaweidatacom/ne/plugins/module_utils/network/ne/ne.py\", line 110, in get_capabilities\n  File \"/tmp/ethgen/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload_ldtjwk0y/ansible_huaweidatacom.ne.ne_config_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/connection.py\", line 200, in __rpc__\nansible.module_utils.connection.ConnectionError: bad escape \\V at position 13\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

Currently there is nothing from this repository I get working until now.