I'm currently looking into the possebilties of netconf and ansible with a nexus 9k switch.
I would like to push the config to a "candidate" on the nexus and diff it with the running config. The playbook works, but the config is not pushed to candidate.
On the cisco site i found some documentation. Here is a snippit from it.
Using the NETCONF Agent
General Commands
The NETCONF Agent is enabled or disabled by the command [no] feature netconf.
Initializing the Candidate Configuration Datastore
The candidate configuration can only be initialized with the contents of the running configuration. To Initialize the candiate configuring datastore, send a Copy-Config request using SSH, with candidate as the target and running as the source.
Performing Read and Write on the Candidate Configuration
To read from the candidate configuration, send a Get-Config request with SSH, using candidate as the source.
To write to the contents of the candidate configuration, send an Edit-Config request with SSH, using candidate as the target.
How do i initialize the candidate? Has anyone has an example?
I have the following playbook:
- name: Push NETCONF Data to Candidate Datastore
ansible.netcommon.netconf_config:
backup: true
target: "candidate"
commit: false
get_filter: |
<name></name>
</System>
content: |
<config xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
<name>LEAF1</name>
</System>
</config>
