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# panos_check – check if PAN-OS device is ready for configuration

- DEPRECATED
- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Examples
- Status

## DEPRECATED

Removed in Ansible:
| version: 2.12
Why: | Consolidating code base.
Alternative: | Use https://galaxy.ansible.com/PaloAltoNetworks/paloaltonetworks instead.

## Synopsis

- Check if PAN-OS device is ready for being configured (no pending jobs).
- The check could be done once or multiple times until the device is ready.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- pan-python

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
interval - | Default: 0 | time waited between checks
ip_address string / required |  | IP address (or hostname) of PAN-OS device.
password string / required |  | Password for authentication.
timeout - | Default: 0 | timeout of API calls
username string | Default: "admin" | Username for authentication.

## Examples

    # single check on 192.168.1.1 with credentials admin/admin
    - name: check if ready
      panos_check:
        ip_address: "192.168.1.1"
        password: "admin"

    # check for 10 times, every 30 seconds, if device 192.168.1.1
    # is ready, using credentials admin/admin
    - name: wait for reboot
      panos_check:
        ip_address: "192.168.1.1"
        password: "admin"
      register: result
      until: result is not failed
      retries: 10
      delay: 30

## Status

- This module will be removed in version 2.12. [deprecated]
- For more information see DEPRECATED.

### Authors

- Luigi Mori (@jtschichold), Ivan Bojer (@ivanbojer)

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