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+# (c) 2018, Western Telematic Inc. <kenp@wti.com>
+# (c) 2012-18 Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+ANSIBLE_METADATA = {
+    'metadata_version': '1.1',
+    'status': ['preview'],
+    'supported_by': 'community'
+}
+
+DOCUMENTATION = """
+lookup: cpm_status
+author: "Western Telematic Inc. (@wtinetworkgear)"
+version_added: "2.7"
+short_description: Get status and parameters from WTI OOB and PDU devices.
+description:
+    - "Get various status and parameters from WTI OOB and PDU devices."
+options:
+  _terms:
+    description:
+      - This is the Action to send the module.
+    required: true
+    choices: [ "temperature", "firmware", "status", "alarms" ]
+  cpm_url:
+    description:
+      - This is the URL of the WTI device to send the module.
+    required: true
+  cpm_username:
+    description:
+      - This is the Basic Authentication Username of the WTI device to send the module.
+    required: true
+  cpm_password:
+    description:
+      - This is the Basic Authentication Password of the WTI device to send the module.
+    required: true
+  use_https:
+    description:
+      - Designates to use an https connection or http connection.
+    required: false
+    type: bool
+    default: true
+  validate_certs:
+    description:
+      - If false, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used
+        on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
+    required: false
+    type: bool
+    default: true
+  use_proxy:
+    description: Flag to control if the lookup will observe HTTP proxy environment variables when present.
+    type: boolean
+    default: True
+"""
+
+EXAMPLES = """
+# Get temperature
+  - name: run Get Device Temperature
+  - debug:
+        var: lookup('cpm_status',
+                'temperature',
+                validate_certs=true,
+                use_https=true,
+                cpm_url='rest.wti.com',
+                cpm_username='rest',
+                cpm_password='restfulpassword')
+
+# Get firmware version
+  - name: Get the firmware version of a given WTI device
+  - debug:
+        var: lookup('cpm_status',
+                'firmware',
+                validate_certs=false,
+                use_https=true,
+                cpm_url="192.168.0.158",
+                cpm_username="super",
+                cpm_password="super")
+
+# Get status output
+  - name: Get the status output from a given WTI device
+  - debug:
+        var: lookup('cpm_status',
+                'status',
+                validate_certs=true,
+                use_https=true,
+                cpm_url="rest.wti.com",
+                cpm_username="rest",
+                cpm_password="restfulpassword")
+
+# Get Alarm output
+  - name: Get the alarms status of a given WTI device
+  - debug:
+        var: lookup('cpm_status',
+                'alarms',
+                validate_certs=false,
+                use_https=false,
+                cpm_url="192.168.0.158",
+                cpm_username="super",
+                cpm_password="super")
+"""
+
+RETURN = """
+  _list:
+    description: The output JSON returned from the commands sent
+    returned: always
+    type: str
+"""
+
+import base64
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
+from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text, to_bytes, to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
+from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url, ConnectionError, SSLValidationError
+
+
+class LookupModule(LookupBase):
+
+    def run(self, terms, variables=None, **kwargs):
+        self.set_options(direct=kwargs)
+
+        ret = []
+
+        for term in terms:
+            auth = to_text(base64.b64encode(to_bytes('{0}:{1}'.format(self.get_option('cpm_username'), self.get_option('cpm_password')),
+                           errors='surrogate_or_strict')))
+
+            if self.get_option('use_https') is True:
+                protocol = "https://"
+            else:
+                protocol = "http://"
+
+            if (term == 'temperature'):
+                fullurl = ("%s%s/api/v2/status/temperature" % (protocol, self.get_option('cpm_url')))
+            elif (term == 'firmware'):
+                fullurl = ("%s%s/api/v2/status/firmware" % (protocol, self.get_option('cpm_url')))
+            elif (term == 'status'):
+                fullurl = ("%s%s/api/v2/status/status" % (protocol, self.get_option('cpm_url')))
+            elif (term == 'alarms'):
+                fullurl = ("%s%s/api/v2/status/alarms" % (protocol, self.get_option('cpm_url')))
+            else:
+                raise AnsibleError("Status command not recognized %s " % (term))
+
+            try:
+                response = open_url(fullurl, validate_certs=self.get_option('validate_certs'), use_proxy=self.get_option('use_proxy'),
+                                    headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Authorization': "Basic %s" % auth})
+            except HTTPError as e:
+                raise AnsibleError("Received HTTP error for %s : %s" % (fullurl, to_native(e)))
+            except URLError as e:
+                raise AnsibleError("Failed lookup url for %s : %s" % (fullurl, to_native(e)))
+            except SSLValidationError as e:
+                raise AnsibleError("Error validating the server's certificate for %s: %s" % (fullurl, to_native(e)))
+            except ConnectionError as e:
+                raise AnsibleError("Error connecting to %s: %s" % (fullurl, to_native(e)))
+
+            ret.append(to_text(response.read()))
+
+        return ret