Ask For Credentials - Script Fails When Large Number Of Devices

[Alexpf20210007]

I am using the ask feature to get the password info at the beginning of the script so that I do not have to worry about storing it in a text, csv, or yaml file. I ran the exact same script with the username and password in the YAML file for 100 devices and it is successful. When I remove all of the username and passwords and put the below info in script, it fails at different devices. When I reduced the number of devices in the script, it was successful. I would think this is a Unicon issue because I am not even using pyATS to run the script, just python3 and unicon. I can also say I am using a Unicon Plugin aos device which I wrote the plugin for so it would be good to test if large number of Cisco devices fail with same type of script. The script I am running logs into a device, runs a show command, and moves on to the next device.
testbed:
credentials:
default:
password: "%ASK{Password:}"
username: TESTUSER
enable:
password: "%ASK{Enable_Password:}"

[stevedhn]

Hi, thanks for your finding, we'd like to welcome the user to contribute to the fix, so feel free to contribute and if you need some helps, please let us know.

[Alexpf20210007]

Wouldn't the issue be in the unicon plugin files that I do not have access to help fix?

[stevedhn]

Hi, what files you're refering here? you still can access to unicon plugins repos right? https://github.com/CiscoTestAutomation/unicon.plugins

[Alexpf20210007]

Yes, I was thinking that some of the base files that I call are not part of the open source repo. I can look into it and get back with you.

[stevedhn]

ok great Alex, you should be able to access to all the files on unicon plugins,
You probably know this, but just make sure when you contribute, please make a branch out of the original master branch of unicon plugins, not from your forked repos.
I'll close the issue for now, once you are free to contribute, please create a PR and assign me so that we can follow up.