gathering facts on network devices

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I seem to be having some issues making this playbook work. I want to just do a show run on all my cisco devices, but it keeps throwing errors about the ‘- vars:’ or something else. I am on the latest version.

rpm -qa|grep -i ansible
ansible-inventory-grapher-2.3.2-1.el7.noarch
ansible-2.3.1.0-1.el7.noarch
ansible-review-0.13.0-2.el7.noarch
ansible-openstack-modules-0-20140902git79d751a.el7.noarch
ansible-lint-3.4.12-1.el7.noarch
ansible-doc-2.3.1.0-1.el7.noarch

  • vars:
    hosts: cisco-fw
    cli:
    hosts: “{{ cisco-fw }}”
    username: user
    password: password
    authorize: yes
    auth_pass: password
    transport: cli

tasks:

  • asa_command:
    commands:

  • show version
    provider: “{{ cli }}”

  • asa_command:
    commands:

  • show run

  • show memory
    provider: “{{ cli }}”

  • asa_command:
    commands:

  • show version
    provider: “{{ cli }}”
    context: system

Here is my output:

sudo ansible-playbook asa-showrun.yml --check
ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in ‘/home/andrew.meyer/playbooks/asa-showrun.yml’: line 3, column 8, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

hosts: cisco-fw
cli:
^ here

2

You have them in the wrong order, it should be this way

- hosts: cisco-fw
   vars:
     cli:

3

So I figured that out. But now i’m not able to connect to any of the network devices.

All of them are showing unreachable when running ansible-playbook with --check.

Here is my config:

cat asa-showrun.yml

4

So I figured that out. But now i'm not able to connect to any of the
network devices.

All of them are showing unreachable when running ansible-playbook with
--check.

Here is my config:

  cat asa-showrun.yml
---
- hosts: "cisco-fw-ip"

<snip>

PLAY [cisco-fw-ip]
**************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts]
**********************************************************************************************************************
fatal: : UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to
the host via ssh: Permission denied (publickey,password).\r\n",
"unreachable": true}

You can't use ssh directly or gather facts against most network devices as they do not have python install.

To make it work add connection and gather_facts as shown bellow.

- hosts: cisco-fw-ip
   connection: local
   gather_facts: false

5

Ok now i’m getting this -

{“failed”: true, “msg”: “the field ‘args’ has an invalid value, which appears to include a variable that is undefined. The error was: ‘password’ is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in ‘/home/andrew.meyer/playbooks/asa-showrun.yml’: line 7, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n tasks:\n - name:\n ^ here\n”}

6

It says password is undefined.

Since you are using the variable password you need to set in some how in you play, extra_vars, inventory or some other place you cat set variables in Ansible.