Ansible: "msg": "You need to install \"jc\" prior to running jc filter"

Installed jc locally and w/ ansible-galaxy for some reason it’s not being found:

---
- name: "Get Junos OS configuration"
  hosts: junos_all
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  
  tasks:

    - name: run show version on remote devices
      juniper.device.command:
        commands: show system uptime
      register: output

    - name: Print response
      debug:
        var: "{{ output.stdout_lines | community.general.jc('System booted') }}"

jc --version
jc version 1.16.1
https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
© 2019-2021 Kelly Brazil

dig example.com | jc --dig

[{"id":30676,"opcode":"QUERY","status":"NOERROR","flags":["qr","rd","ra"],"query_num":1,"answer_num":1,"authority_num":0,"additional_num":1,"opt_pseudosection":{"edns":{"version":0,"flags":[],"udp":1220}},"question":{"name":"example.com.","class":"IN","type":"A"},"answer":[{"name":"example.com.","class":"IN","type":"A","ttl":17,"data":"93.184.216.34"}],"query_time":44,"server":"192.168.32.11#53(192.168.32.11)","when":"Thu Aug 26 11:25:12 PDT 2021","rcvd":56,"when_epoch":1630002312,"when_epoch_utc":null}]

ansible --version

ansible [core 2.11.4]
  config file = /Users/nmoore/code/neteng/automation/junos/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/Users/nmoore/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /Users/nmoore/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.6 (v3.9.6:db3ff76da1, Jun 28 2021, 11:49:53) [Clang 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]
  jinja version = 3.0.1
  libyaml = True

ag collection list
# /Users/nmoore/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection             Version
---------------------- -------
cisco.meraki           2.4.2
community.general      3.5.0
juniper.device         1.0.0
paloaltonetworks.panos 2.7.0

[kellyjonbrazil]

BTW, you can also parse the first 5 lines using the jc key/value parser (kv):

var2: "{{ output.stdout_lines[:5] | community.general.jc('kv') }}"

should produce this:

{
  "current time": "2021-08-26 19:25:41 UTC",
  "time source": "NTP CLOCK",
  "system booted": "2020-08-16 08:04:36 UTC (53w4d 11:21 ago)",
  "protocols started": "2020-08-16 08:13:26 UTC (53w4d 11:12 ago)",
  "last configured": "2021-08-26 00:43:22 UTC (18:42:19 ago) by someuser"
}

(Actually you’ll, probably have to join that list with \n)

[kellyjonbrazil]

I think you just need to do the join before it goes to jc:

var: "{{ output.stdout_lines[:6] | join('\n') | community.general.jc('kv') }}"

(I changed the 5 to 6 since I noticed an extra \n at the beginning of the output. Hope that works)

Thanks for the suggestion - I’ll look into signing up!