[pynetbox.ansible_module] unexpected keyword argument 'private_key' since 7.0.1 release

[dauphinpasdroit]

Hello,

Since the 7.0.1 release, I encounter this error message:

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'netbox.netbox.nb_lookup'. Error was a , original message: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'private_key'"}

With the version 7.0.0 it works perfectly fine.

It seems like to be a bug from the new release.

[markkuleinio]

pynetbox 7.x is only compatible with NetBox 3.3+, so the non-NetBox 3.3+ compatible features were removed in 7.0.1. The private_key argument for pynetbox.api() was one such feature (only usable with NetBox 2.11 and older).

• https://github.com/netbox-community/pynetbox#readme
• https://github.com/netbox-community/pynetbox/releases/tag/v7.0.1
• https://github.com/netbox-community/pynetbox/pull/521/commits/defbafbaa43d6ac0539a74e161316fb9f81cefa7

If you need the private key for use in older NetBox, you need to use some older pynetbox version.

Or, maybe the plugin you are using needs some update.

[dauphinpasdroit]

Thank you for your answer.

I use pynetbox through Ansible with the netbox collection. To be more specific, I use the netbox.netbox.nb_lookup module. I use the last version of the collection.

The thing that I don't understand, it's that I don't use the private_key feature at all.

I rolled back the pynetbox version to 7.0.0 so it's working now, but I'm not sure to fully understand everything here.

[markkuleinio]

I'd recommend you to search for peer assistance among other users of that plugin, and to notify the module author that legacy features (private_key) don't work with current pynetbox anymore, so they may want to release update as well.

[equinoxefr]

@alphaxr6 same issue here... I'm going to have a look at the list of issues for ansible collection

[equinoxefr]

@alphaxr6 as a very very dirty workaround, you can edit netbox/plugins/lookup/nb_lookup.py and comment out this lines:

#        "secret-roles": {"endpoint": netbox.secrets.secret_roles},
#        "secrets": {"endpoint": netbox.secrets.secrets},

and

            netbox = pynetbox.api(
                netbox_api_endpoint,
                token=netbox_api_token if netbox_api_token else None,
                #private_key=netbox_private_key,
                #private_key_file=netbox_private_key_file,
            )

[equinoxefr]

I opened a bug report in netbox ansible collection repository. Feel free to add more information :)

[dauphinpasdroit]

Thank you @equinoxefr

I saw that the bug was known and netbox collection for ansible team is working on it. I'll close this topic.

Thank you for your help all :)