moiseev-ks
(Moiseev Ks)
September 24, 2023, 2:03pm
1
Hi
I am new in ansible, and studing it on lab scheme.
I am confused one thing:
In inventory is host:
cis2 ansible_host=172.28.8.222
And then i try -m ping to it, recievd pong.
[WARNING]: ansible-pylibssh not installed, falling back to paramiko
cis2 | SUCCESS => {
“changed”: false,
“ping”: “pong”
}
But, this host is absent.
— 172.28.8.222 ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3059ms
ssh: connect to host 172.28.8.222 port 22: No route to host
What it is mean?
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IPvSean
(Sean Cavanaugh)
September 24, 2023, 5:28pm
2
— 172.28.8.222 ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3059ms
the host could have ICMP blocked, the “ping” module is not the same as ICMP ping. In the docs: ansible.builtin.ping module – Try to connect to host, verify a usable python and return pong on success — Ansible Documentation
This is NOT ICMP ping, this is just a trivial test module that requires Python on the remote-node.
However…
ssh: connect to host 172.28.8.222 port 22: No route to host
This is interesting… you should be able to ssh… even if ICMP is disabled… can you do a ansible-inventory --list
, I am curious what it says
this
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moiseev-ks
(Moiseev Ks)
September 25, 2023, 9:16am
3
I installed ansible for new Master server. Situation is the same.
Inventory:
- cis1 - host is active, configs right
- cis2 - host is active, configs wrong
- cis3 - host is absent
mks_ansible@debian-t1:~/ansible_configs$ ansible-inventory --list
{
"_meta": {
"hostvars": {
"cis1": {
"ansible_connection": "network_cli",
"ansible_host": "172.28.8.221",
"ansible_network_os": "ios",
"ansible_user": "ansible",
"ansible_password": "sss123"
},
"cis2": {
"ansible_connection": "network_cli",
"ansible_host": "172.28.8.222",
"ansible_network_os": "ios",
"ansible_user": "ansible",
"ansible_password": "wrongpass"
},
"cis3": {
"ansible_connection": "network_cli",
"ansible_host": "172.28.8.223",
"ansible_network_os": "ios",
"ansible_user": "ansible",
"ansible_password": "sss123"
}
}
},
"all": {
"children": [
"ungrouped",
"routers_ios"
]
},
"routers_ios": {
"hosts": [
"cis1",
"cis2",
"cis3"
]
}
}
Result:
mks_ansible@debian-t1:~/ansible_configs$ ansible routers_ios -m ping
[WARNING]: ansible-pylibssh not installed, falling back to paramiko
[WARNING]: ansible-pylibssh not installed, falling back to paramiko
[WARNING]: ansible-pylibssh not installed, falling back to paramiko
cis1 | SUCCESS => {
“changed”: false,
“ping”: “pong”
}
cis2 | SUCCESS => {
“changed”: false,
“ping”: “pong”
}
cis3 | SUCCESS => {
“changed”: false,
“ping”: “pong”
}
moiseev-ks
(Moiseev Ks)
September 25, 2023, 10:12am
4
This behavior only for routers (i tried with cisco and juniper). With linux and windows servers -m ping works correctly.
kurokobo
(kurokobo)
September 25, 2023, 12:41pm
5
ansible.netcommon.net_ping
should be used insted of ping
module.
For Network targets, use the ansible.netcommon.net_ping module instead.
ansible.builtin.ping module – Try to connect to host, verify a usable python and return pong on success — Ansible Documentation
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IPvSean
(Sean Cavanaugh)
September 25, 2023, 1:04pm
6
ansible.netcommon.net_ping
should be used insted of ping
module.
this ^, the ping module is verifying nothing for network devices, and not a valid test.
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gwmngilfen
(Greg Sutcliffe)
October 6, 2023, 8:51am
7
Hi @moiseev-ks ! It looks like the post might be solved - could you check to see if the response by @kurokobo worked for you?
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(system)
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