Back to it finally. Going to take a look at the Ansible module ios_vlan. The purpose of this is to provide a declarative module for managing VLANs on IOS devices. In this I will be using IOSv-L2 images. There are a few interesting quirks (as I will call it) within the parameters for the module.
Today's post is going to be a short and sweet one (unless I get to writing two). I'm going to take a
look at ios_banner module. This one is pretty much straight to the point, what it states,
modifying the banner on an IOS device. There are multiple reasons to want to manipulate the banner
on a Cisco device. We will leave those reasons to you and the organization that you are a part of
for that. For now, we will take a real quick look at the module.
In this post we will talk about primarily three components that will work together to get structured data out of the command line of a Cisco device. The three pieces are:
This is a post that I'm going to review some of the differences between the ios_config module and the new cli_config module within Ansible networking. I became interested in the module after a recent discussion between the two. I have decided to take a look at the differences between the two.
You have decided to move forward with using/trying Ansible. You can now connect to a device and get
a green success that you get a hello world like command such as show hostname or
show inventory and get the GREEN success on Ansible. Now what. You may want to see the output of
the command that you sent and got information back. This is your post on getting started.
This is the process that I typically go through when developing a playbook for use. Let's say this is a playbook that you wish to just get show information out of the device, say investigating if there are any configurations that are applied that would be part of a CVE bug, or just operational status.
During this post I will relate the Ansible data structures/formats to that of Python. So the terms will be dictionary (hashes) and lists (lists).