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Example playbook to demonstrate Ansible Network Module usage for Cisco IOS devices.
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Example playbook to demonstrate Ansible Network Module usage for Cisco IOS devices.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/brona/ansible-cisco-ios-example
• Owner: brona
• Created: 2016-03-20T17:47:29.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-02-17T20:17:49.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-19T10:28:39.318Z (5 months ago)
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README

        
# Example usage of Ansible Network Module on Cisco IOS

Recently [Peter Sprygada announced](https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-network-technology-preview) technology preview of the new [Ansible Network Modules](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_network_modules.html). Ansible 2.1 will bring support for basic tasks (`_command`, `_config`, `_template`)  for various network equpiment, most notably Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS and Juniper Junos platforms.

This repository contains working simple example that gathers `show clock` output from Cisco IOS switches. Following installation procedure was verified working on Mac OS X 10.11.3. Ansible playbook was executed on Cisco C2960X, IOS 15.2(2)E1 switches.

![Example usage](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brona/ansible-cisco-ios-example/master/example.gif)

## Install Ansible

Ensure you are using Ansible v2.1 or above:

    ansible-playbook --version

    

If not install the latest version via your OS packager, for more information see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html

## Clone this repository to your working folder

Copy of all files in this repository will be downloaded to your mac/pc/whatever.

    $ git clone [email protected]:brona/ansible-cisco-ios-example.git

## [Optional] Edit your hosts file

If you will be using IP addresses directly in you inventory file or if you have properly working internal DNS you can skip this step.

    $ sudo nano /etc/hosts

Example hosts file on Mac OS X:

    127.0.0.1 localhost

    255.255.255.255 broadcasthost

    ::1             localhost

    10.0.0.1 switch1

    10.0.0.2 switch2

## Edit inventory

Add all network devices you want to gather time from to inventory file.

    $ cd ansible-cisco-ios-example

    $ nano inventory

Example inventory file:

    # Example inventory file:

    [ios_devices]

    switch1

    switch2

## Run show_clock Playbook

    $ ansible-playbook show_clock.yml

    Username: ...

    Password: ...

    ...

Playbook will prompt you for username and password that will be used to log in to inventory devices. Gathered output will be printed on screen.