Ansible - Authentication timeout error

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Hi every one,

I’m trying to pull out some information from a cisco switch device using ios_facts module, for exemple ios version using ansible.
By running the playbook, the following message appears:

PLAY [Host(s) name] *********************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Display ios facts] ****************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [10.27.160.1]: FAILED! => {“ansible_facts”: {“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/libexec/platform-python”}, “changed”: false, “msg”: “Failed to authenticate: Authentication timeout.”}

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************************************************************************
10.27.160.1 : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

The inventory hosts file looks like :

[swradius]
10.27.160.1

[swradius:vars]
ansible_connection = network_cli
ansible_network_os = ios
ansible_user = telecom
ansible_password = jtaciusss!adm

and here below is the playbook itself:

  • name: Host(s) name
    hosts: swradius
    gather_facts: false

tasks:

  • name: Display ios facts
    ios_facts:
    gather_subset: all

  • name: Display the current ios version
    debug:
    msg: “The current ios version is {{ansible_net_version}}”