AUTOMATIC BAKCUP OF CISCO DEVICES VIA ANSIBLE

[felix.mugambi]

Hello Team,

Hope you are all well.

I have this challenge when i try to run a playbook to back up network devices.

am attaching the playbook config and the error.

- name: AUTOMATIC BACKUP OF RUNNING-CONFIG
hosts: Core_Switch
gather_facts: true
connection: local

tasks:
- name: DISPLAYING THE RUNNING-CONFIG
ios_command:
commands:
- show run
timeout: 30
host: "{{ ansible_host }}"
username: xxxxx
password: yyyyy
register: config

- name: Get Current Date
local_action: command date +%Y-%b-%d
register: date

- name: Get Current Time
local_action: command date +%H:%M
register: time

- name: save Output to /home/user1/Backups
copy:
content: "{{ config.stdout[0] }}"
dest: "/home/user1/Backups/_{{ date.stdout }}_at_{{ time.stdout }}-{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt"

Error is as below :- 

[bigevilbeard]

You have connection: local, which is meant for tasks executed on the Ansible control machine itself.

Update the connection line to specify a connection type suitable for network devices.

connection: network_cli


I would also set the ansible_network_os variable to cisco.ios.ios to ensure Ansible uses the correct libraries.

[felix.mugambi]

Here the error am now getting.

[Torbjørn]

You seem to be missing the paramiko python module. It can be installed using pip, likely with the command "python3 -m pip install paramiko" depending on your OS.

[felix.mugambi]

[bigevilbeard]

This could be one of two things based on the error incorrect credential and/or you are missing ansible-pylibssh library (pip install this)

Hope this helps.

[felix.mugambi]

Credentials are ok, since they can ssh to the device, Installed the library as well.

Anything else I might be missing?

[bigevilbeard]

can you run this with -vvvv and share the output, the only thing the last error is showing is the wrong creds, this will giev a more verbose output that might include additional details about the authentication failure in the error, also can you share the  inventory file too?