ANSIBLE BACKUP ON CISCO

[fmugambi]

Hello Guys,

Below playbook is not working, kindly assist look into it and advise. Thanks.

Getting below error :-

What could I be doing wrong?

[Torbjørn]

You need to remove the "host" parameter to your "DISPLAYING THE RUNNING-CONFIG" task.

The error message is saying that the parameter doesn't exist for the ios_command module. The "hosts" parameter is only allowed per play, not per task. If your goal is to run that task only for specific hosts, you can use a "when" statement to achieve this(see docs linked below).

You can read more about the ios_command module here, and these Ansible docs are also useful for controlling execution: Patterns: targeting hosts and groups  Conditionals based on variables 

[fmugambi]

I tried this, but does not seem to work.

DO you have a sample playbook, i can compare to, or an external resource I can lookup.

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

below is a link to a tutorial:

https://www.rogerperkin.co.uk/network-automation/ansible/ansible-tutorial-network-engineers/

[fmugambi]

does it depend on ansible version, did they change anything, cause am running ansible 2.14.9

getting local module not found.

[Torbjørn]

What output are you getting?

[fmugambi]

[theVPNbloke]

Hello! 2 things. Remove the 'Hosts' line from your 'Display The Running-Config' task as you've already defined the scope of the target hosts in the second line 'hosts: Core_Switch'

Also have you defined the OS in your variables file?  - 

ansible_network_os: ios 

[fmugambi]

what is the OS variable, been using cisco.ios.ios, but says module unsupported.

[fmugambi]

[Torbjørn]

Can you post the inventory file?

[fmugambi]

[Core_Switch]
CORE

[Core_Switch:vars]
#ansible_connection=ansible.netcommon.network_cli
ansible_network_os=cisco.ios.ios
ansible_user=xxx
ansible_password= yyyy

[theVPNbloke · Accepted solution]

Hello, the ansible_network_os should be:

ansible_network_os= ios

[fmugambi]

getting below: -

FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {}, "changed": false, "failed_modules": {"ansible.legacy.ios_facts": {"failed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"available_network_resources": false, "gather_network_resources": null, "gather_subset": ["min"]}}, "msg": "ssh connection failed: Failed to authenticate public key: Access denied for 'keyboard interactive'. Authentication that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive,password"}}, "msg": "The following modules failed to execute: ansible.legacy.ios_facts\n"}

[Torbjørn]

It seems that the password you have specified in your inventory is incorrect.