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arista.eos.eos
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**Use eAPI to run command on eos platform**


Version added: 1.0.0

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Synopsis
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- This eos plugin provides low level abstraction api's for sending and receiving CLI commands with eos network devices.




Parameters
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                    <b>eos_use_sessions</b>
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                        <div>Specifies if sessions should be used on remote host or not</div>
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Status
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Authors
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- Ansible Networking Team


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