Help with Basic IOS Command module

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If anyone is able to assist i would really appreciate it, I have spent hours looking around ,fixing random things and still cannot find why my script errors out on a 'type error"…

/etc/ansible/cisco$ cat tasks.yml

  • hosts: all
    gather_facts: no
    tasks:
  • name: ios command
    ios_command:
    commands:
  • terminal length 0
  • show interfaces

/etc/ansible/cisco$ cat hosts
[ios]
coreswitch ansible_host=10.0.99.2 ansible_ssh_pass=password ansible_user=ansible

2

Hi bain,

Looks like your missing connection: local in your playbook. See updated below:

  • hosts: all
    gather_facts: no
    tasks:
  • name: ios command
    ios_command:
    connection: local
    commands:
  • terminal length 0
  • show interfaces
3

Hello All,

I am trying using ios_command to get “show running”, however all the time task overwrite on the same file ( like txt ).

For example would like create file for each day? Which function I could use?

Kind Regards,
Rodrigo

4

Hi Bain,

It seems the ios_command module doesn’t work with Python3.5. Try running it with Python2.7.

Regards,Sergey

5

Hi Sergey, can you provide more details about what isn’t working in py3.5?

6

Hi Peter,

persistent.py module raises the following exception:

File "/Users/sbondar/anaconda/envs/ansibleenv4/lib/python3.5/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/persistent.py", line 56, in _do_it
    cPickle.dump(self._play_context.serialize(), src)
TypeError: string argument expected, got 'bytes'

I’ve filed a bug report for this issue, more details there:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/24355

Cheers,
Sergey