When conditional does not work with ios_config module. Why is it so?

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1st playbook uses ios_command module and gets executed as intended (to display the output when hostname of device contains router1).

However 2nd playbook uses ios_config module and fails when i use the ‘when’ conditional. Am i do something wrong or is it that ‘when’ conditional is not supposed to work with ios_config module? (please ignore the formatting)

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1st playbook uses ios_command module and gets executed as intended (to display the output when hostname of device
contains router1).

However 2nd playbook uses ios_config module and fails when i use the 'when' conditional. Am i do something wrong or is
it that 'when' conditional is not supposed to work with ios_config module? (please ignore the formatting)

First of all output.stdout is not a list but a string.

Can you provide sample output?

Regards
        Racke

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Hi,

Thanks for your assistance. Please find output for both the playbooks as you requrested:

OUTPUT FOR 1ST PLAYBOOK (WORKING ONE):

TASK [debug] ***************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [R1] => {
“output”: {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python”
},
“changed”: false,
“deprecations”: [
{
“msg”: “Distribution Ubuntu 18.04 on host R1 should use /usr/bin/python3, but is using /usr/bin/python for backward compatibility with prior Ansible releases. A future Ansible release will default to using the discovered platform python for this host. See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information”,
“version”: “2.12”
}
],
“failed”: false,
“stdout”: [
“hostname router28”
],
“stdout_lines”: [
[
“hostname router28”

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Hi,

Thanks for your assistance. Please find output for both the playbooks as you requrested:

So if you have "hostname router28" in output.stdout, you can use the following when condition:

when: output.stdout is search('router28$')

This condition is true when the string "router28" is at the end of output.stdout.

Regards
         Racke

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Hi Racke,

Thanks for the tip. But iam wondering if there is any restriction in ios_config module that my config line wouldn’t work and your config is compatable with this module?

Regards,
Vikram