I can run other sh commands like sh version, sh ip int brief but the sh run doesn’t work on the cisco CSR. What I am missing here? [image] swapna@jumphost1:~/ansible$ ansible-playbook shrun.yml [WARNING]: Invalid characters were found in group names but not replaced, use -vvvv to see details PL…

[image] akira6592: - name: Save output to ~/ansible/backups copy: content: "{{ config.stdout[0] }}" dest: "~/ansible/backups/{{ hostvars.cisco_csr.DTG }}/show_running-config.txt" Your Awesome it works. As a extension to the playbook, I am adding some of the show commands output. l g…

@chinmasw Hello. The user who login to devices does not have privilege permission. Maybe you can execute show version not show running-config. You should use a privilege user or privilege escalation to execute show running-config. See also: IOS Platform Options — Ansible Documentation

[image] I am trying to backup the config and save it in backups folder, it is falling here “msg”: “can not use content with a dir as dest” swapna@jumphost1:~/ansible$ ansible-playbook backup.yml [WARNING]: Invalid characters were found in group names but not replaced, use -vvvv to see details P…

@chinmasw As per the error message can not use content with a dir as dest, you should specify file path to dest option of copy module.

@chinmasw For example, how about the following. - name: Save output to ~/ansible/backups copy: content: "{{ config.stdout[0] }}" dest: "~/ansible/backups/{{ hostvars.cisco_csr.DTG }}/show_running-config.txt" In this case the dest option needs a file path.

@chinmasw There are two ways to store the results of multiple show commands. Store one result to per file. like show_running-config.txt, show_version.txt and so on. Store multiple results to one file. Which way do you like?

Option 2 storing in 1 file with multiple results.

@chinmasw There are several ways to do it… How about this one? tasks: - name: show run on device ios_command: commands: - show running-config - show version register: config - name: Save output to ~/ansible/backups blockinfile: path:…

Works perfectly. Thank you for your help

@chinmasw My pleasure. Could you mark my answer as solution to explicit closing this topic?

Unable to run sh run playbook on cisco_csr

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chinmasw (Swapna) February 19, 2024, 11:48pm 7

Your Awesome it works. As a extension to the playbook, I am adding some of the show commands output. l guess I need to use some template like j2 for storing multiple sh commands output as the .txt you can only save 1 show command output. Is there a way out of not using j2?

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