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Check PAN-OS Firewall Readiness

Checks whether a Palo Alto Networks firewall is ready by running the show chassis-ready operational command. The playbook retries automatically until the device responds successfully.

palo-altopan-osfirewall
playbook.yml
---
# check_ready.yml - Checks to see if a firewall is ready via 'show chassis-ready' command.
#
# Description
# ===========
#
# Uses the 'show chassis-ready' op command to see if a PAN-OS firewall is ready.  This playbook uses the Ansible
# 'until' and 'retries' keywords to retry the command until successful.
#
# This playbook requires connection details for the device to be specified in the variables 'ip_address', 'username',
# and 'password'.  These may be defined as host variables (see `host_vars/firewall.yml` for an example) or
# extra vars.
#
# Modules Used
# ============
#
# panos_op - https://paloaltonetworks.github.io/pan-os-ansible/modules/panos_op.html
#
# Usage
# =====
#
#   $ ansible-playbook -i inventory check_ready.yml

- hosts: '{{ target | default("firewall") }}'
  connection: local

  vars:
    device:
      ip_address: '{{ ip_address }}'
      username: '{{ username | default(omit) }}'
      password: '{{ password | default(omit) }}'
      api_key: '{{ api_key | default(omit) }}'

  tasks:
    - name: Check to see if device is ready
      paloaltonetworks.panos.panos_op:
        provider: '{{ device }}'
        cmd: 'show chassis-ready'
      changed_when: false
      register: result
      until: result is not failed and (result.stdout | from_json).response.result == 'yes'
      retries: 50
      delay: 30

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UpdatedJul 13, 2026