A more complex interactive task than those seen before is rebooting the device and waiting for it to be available again. Although Ansible is

A more complex interactive task than those seen before is rebooting the device and waiting for it to be available again. Although Ansible is not designed specifically for this purpose, it can be useful, for example, in a procedure that updates device firmware.

Let’s analyze the manual procedure:

• The device must obviously be reachable.
• The configuration register should be set to 0x2101.
• The configuration must be saved.

At this point, the reload command can be issued, followed by waiting for it to be reachable again before issuing further commands.

The preliminary tasks, which have already been analyzed before, can be implemented very simply:

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