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Using Ansible through a Perle console server

We use Ansible for configuration deployment in a network environment.

We would like to push baseline configurations to devices, mainly Cisco devices.

For console access, we use a new Perle IOLAN SCR258. However, when we try to connect through it, we get a blank screen and need to press Enter on the keyboard to get the CLI prompt. Ansible gets stuck at this point.

Since the connection works over a console port, commands are buffered, and when we finally connect and press Enter, the buffered commands are executed all at once.

I have already read all the documentation and even asked AI tools, but I could not find a proper solution.

I hope someone has been in a similar situation and can help.

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u/Big_Individual8863 — 4 days ago