cisco-ios-command

This Ansible script runs commands on remote Cisco IOS XE device and retrieve the result into output folder. The script gathers the IOS Facts Information. In the example script the command is "show running-config" to get baackup. But thos can be any command ie "show tech-support"

---
all:
  children:
    all_cisco_ios:
      hosts:
        r4:
          inventory_network_os: cisco.ios.ios
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.14
          inventory_port: 22
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password
    all_cisco_asa:
      hosts:
        ciscoasa1:
          inventory_network_os: cisco.asa.asa
          inventory_network_cisco_asa_type: vpn
          inventory_network_cisco_asa_ha_type: standalone
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.98
          inventory_port: 22
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password
    all_f5:
      hosts:
        bigip1:
          inventory_network_os: f5.bigip
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.245
          inventory_port: 443
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password
        bigip2:
          inventory_network_os: f5.bigip
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.246
          inventory_port: 443
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password
        bigip3:
          inventory_network_os: f5.bigip
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.247
          inventory_port: 443
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password

Prerequisite

Ansible ansible-pylibssh modules must be installed before running the script.

pip install ansible-pylibssh

Usage:

ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False ansible-playbook -vvvv --vault-password-file vault_pass.yaml -i inventory-vault.yaml cisco-ios-command.yml --extra-vars="ios_device=r4"

NOTE: output folder must be created before running the script.

Files

cisco-ios-command.yml >> Ansible script file
vault_pass.yaml >> Inventory vault password information
inventory-vault.yaml >> Inventory vault file encrypted by "Inventory vault password"

Variables

ios_device variable shows which Cisco ASA device/devices will be connected.The value can be "r4", "r1" etc. or "all_cisco_ios" as per the example inventory file above.

output Folder Example Files