# issues trying to get cisco playbook to run

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-trying-to-get-cisco-playbook-to-run/33409>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-trying-to-get-cisco-playbook-to-run/33409 "2020-07-15T20:22:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![william.dossett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@william.dossett](https://forum.ansible.com/u/william.dossett)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-trying-to-get-cisco-playbook-to-run/33409/1 "2020-07-15T20:22:16Z")

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I am trying to create a demo playbook to show ansible/AWX/Tower configuring a cisco switch… and failing miserably.

I have tried using cisco.ios.ios\_vlans and the deprecated cisco.ios.ios\_vlan and get errors on both.

I have tried network credential with the authorize box ticked and the enable password as the authorize password

I have tried machine credential with privilege escalation method set to enable and am unable to create a vlan with either.

my play with cisco.ios.ios\_vlans:

`

# now create vlan 10

- name: create vlan 10  
ios\_vlans:  
config:
- name: Vlan\_10  
vlan\_id: 10  
state: active  
shutdown: disabled  
state: replaced

`

I have tried with merged and replaced I always get:

`  
invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘Gi1/0/49,’\n",

`

I am not trying to add any interfaces or anything at this point - GI1/0/49 is my uplink to the switch is the only thing I can think of, but no idea why this message comes up in stderr. I did see this error in an issue in git, I did not find a solution, but apparently the user decided to move to using cisco.ios.ios\_vlan instead and it worked ok. So I followed that route

playbook now:

`

# now create vlan 10

- name: create vlan 10  
ios\_vlan:  
vlan\_id: 10  
name: vlan\_10  
state: present

`

and traceback with network credential with authorize ticked and authorize password entered.

`

{  
“msg”: “configure terminal\r\n ^\r\n% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.\r\n\r\nterrapin-2960-bu\>”,  
“exception”: " File "/tmp/ansible\_ios\_vlan\_payload\_862tmftw/ansible\_ios\_vlan\_payload.zip/ansible/module\_utils/network/ios/ios.py", line 144, in load\_config\n resp = connection.edit\_config(commands)\n File "/tmp/ansible\_ios\_vlan\_payload\_862tmftw/ansible\_ios\_vlan\_payload.zip/ansible/module\_utils/connection.py", line 185, in **rpc** \n raise ConnectionError(to\_text(msg, errors=‘surrogate\_then\_replace’), code=code)\n",  
“invocation”: {  
“module\_args”: {  
“vlan\_id”: 10,  
“name”: “vlan\_10”,  
“state”: “present”,  
“purge”: false,  
“delay”: 10,  
“aggregate”: null,  
“interfaces”: null,  
“associated\_interfaces”: null,  
“provider”: null,  
“host”: null,  
“port”: null,  
“username”: null,  
“password”: null,  
“ssh\_keyfile”: null,  
“authorize”: null,  
“auth\_pass”: null,  
“timeout”: null  
}  
},  
“ansible\_facts”: {  
“discovered\_interpreter\_python”: “/usr/libexec/platform-python”  
},  
“\_ansible\_no\_log”: false,  
“changed”: false  
}

`

and traceback with machine credential and privilege’s escalation method set to enable

`

fatal: [192.168.10.251]: FAILED! =\> {

64  
“ansible\_facts”: {

65  
“discovered\_interpreter\_python”: “/usr/libexec/platform-python”

66  
},

67  
“changed”: false,

68  
“invocation”: {

69  
“module\_args”: {

70  
“aggregate”: null,

71  
“associated\_interfaces”: null,

72  
“auth\_pass”: null,

73  
“authorize”: null,

74  
“delay”: 10,

75  
“host”: null,

76  
“interfaces”: null,

77  
“name”: “vlan\_10”,

78  
“password”: null,

79  
“port”: null,

80  
“provider”: null,

81  
“purge”: false,

82  
“ssh\_keyfile”: null,

83  
“state”: “present”,

84  
“timeout”: null,

85  
“username”: null,

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“vlan\_id”: 10

87  
}

88  
},

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“msg”: “show user-account root\r\n ^\r\n% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.\r\n\r\nterrapin-2960-bu\>”

90  
}

91

`

so the invalid input detected at.. and the terrapin-2960-bu\> prompt with configure terminal command looks to me like it hasn’t escalated to privilege enable mode, which is why I have tried all the different credential types and tickboxes etc… but they seem to be saying that that will put it in enable mode… but I am stuck on this error. I realize that ios\_vlan is deprecated - info on versions is:

awx 13  
ansible 2.9.10

I think I have tried every thing that I can think of right now, I am supposed to be demoing it tomorrow and it’s going to look a little pitiful as the only thing that I can current get to work is show version… which it seems to do fine.

I am going to convert my playbooks back to just standard ansible with become\_method: enable etc to see if I get any other results, but as far as I can tell that should be the same as I am getting from AWX and AWX is what they are really interested in.

Regards  
Bill

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**Author:** ![william.dossett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@william.dossett](https://forum.ansible.com/u/william.dossett)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-trying-to-get-cisco-playbook-to-run/33409/2 "2020-07-21T21:04:54Z")

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So, I got this all to run under ansible using become\_method: enable so it isn’t my playbook or ansible that is the problem entering privilege mode.

It is an AWX problem as far as I can tell. I am using machine credential with privilege escalation method set to enable, privilege username and password set and also in the template enable privilege escalation box is ticked. I still get an error:

“msg”: “show user-account root\r\n ^\r\n% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.\r\n\r\nterrapin-2960-bu\>”

Which looks like lack of privilege escalation… this works with Ansible Tower – Redhat have run a simple playbook and crated a vlan and sent me screen shots of the template and credential pages and I have matched them exactly but I still get an error.

Is anyone else using AWX with privilege escalation on Cisco and gotten it to work?

Regards

Bill

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**Author:** ![william.dossett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@william.dossett](https://forum.ansible.com/u/william.dossett)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-trying-to-get-cisco-playbook-to-run/33409/3 "2020-07-24T17:28:05Z")

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my bad, I had a variable stuck in my inventory stating OS was NXOS ☹ I had copied some vars from someone elses playbook and completely forgot about them in the inventory file extra vars.

All good now.