'ERROR!' Telnet 'is not a valid attribute to play

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Hello Everyone,

I use ansible 2.7, I’m trying to use the ‘telnet’ module to connect to Cisco devices with IOS but it has the following error: ‘**ERROR!’ Telnet 'is not a valid attribute to play "**any ideas?

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You playbook is wrong.

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Hi, it would help to paste your playbook here. Invoking tasks from a playbook requires specific syntax - one option is under ‘tasks’ - see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html
Alternately you can have your tasks in a role and call the role from your playbook. Hope that helps. Regards, Straff

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Hi,

First of all thanks for the answers, below is my playbook and then the error message.

Playbook

  • name: Coletct Information Switches
    connection: network_cli
    gather_facts: false
    hosts: lab_telnet
    tasks:

  • name: send configuration commands to IOS
    telnet:
    user: admin
    password: xxxx
    login_prompt: "Username: "
    prompts:

  • “[>|#]”
    command:

  • terminal length 0

  • show run

Error message

root@DESKTOP-5B1T804:/etc/ansible# ansible-playbook telnet.yml
ERROR! ‘telnet’ is not a valid attribute for a Play

The error appears to have been in ‘/etc/ansible/telnet.yml’: line 8, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  • name: send configuration commands to IOS
    ^ here
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Please repost using a fixed width font so we can check your indentation. Make sure you post your ENTIRE playbook.

Also, YAML code should always start with three hyphens on a line by themselves.

Regards, K.

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I believe you need to have two spaces indentation for the telnet task