playbook to backup network device running configuration to local file

gistfile1.txt

---
- hosts: ios
  connection: local

  vars:
    backup_root: /tmp/backups

    cli:
      host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      username: cisco
      password: cisco
      transport: cli

  tasks:
    - name: run show running-config on remote devices
      ios_command:
        commands: show running
        provider: "{{ cli }}"
      register: config

    - name: ensure backup folder is created
      file:
        path: "{{ backup_root }}"
        state: directory
      run_once: yes

    - name: ensure device rolder is created
      file:
        path: "{{ backup_root }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}"
        state: directory

    - name: get timestamp
      command: date +%Y%m%d
      register: timestamp

    - copy:
        content: "{{ config.stdout[0] }}"
        dest: "{{ backup_root }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}/running-config_{{ timestamp.stdout }}"

Hello ,

THanks for you code but I get this error.

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "unable to open shell. Please see: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/network_debug_troubleshooting.html#unable-to-open-shell", "rc": 255}
!
ansible 2.3.1.0

How can i fix this?

thanks.

Say, this works fine except the config file is in some kind of strange format, doubt this will paste back into a switch. Have you tried it?

take that back, ,stdout[0] fixed the format. I had missed that.

Hi,

Getting this error:

fatal: [R4]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "show running-config\r\n ^\r\n% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.\r\n\r\nR1>", "rc": 1}

Not sure what the problem is, but it's somehow related to the "show running" command that we're using. Cos when I changed it to "show version" it works perfectly as expected.

How can this be fixed?

Cheers

I'm having the same problem as EricH7777777. Any solutions here?

Hey Guys!

Regarding EricH7777777 and toms3t issue. I had same issue, in order to run: show running config - switch must be in privileged mode for cisco devices. <>.

So, in a playbook you have to add --> authorize: yes and auth_pass: cisco (auth_pass is enable password on the switch side).

my creds.yml file:

creds:
username: cisco
password: cisco
auth_pass: cisco

This is my playbook:

• hosts: myswitches
  connection: local

  vars:
  backup_root: /etc/ansible/backups

  tasks:

  • name: GET CREDENTIALS
    include_vars: creds.yml

  • name: DEFINE CONNECTION
    set_fact:
    connection:
    authorize: yes // make sure that "authorize: yes" is there, otherwise it wont go to enable mode.
    host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ creds['username'] }}"
    password: "{{ creds['password'] }}"
    auth_pass: "{{ creds['auth_pass'] }}"

  • name: run show running-config on remote devices
    ios_command:
    commands: show running
    provider: "{{ connection }}"
    register: config

  • name: ensure backup folder is created
    file:
    path: "{{ backup_root }}"
    state: directory
    run_once: yes

  • name: ensure device rolder is created
    file:
    path: "{{ backup_root }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    state: directory

  • name: get timestamp
    command: date +%Y%m%d
    register: timestamp

  • copy:
    content: "{{ config.stdout[0] }}"
    dest: "{{ backup_root }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}/running-config_{{ timestamp.stdout }}"

Maybe there is a better way to shorten playbook, if anyone have any suggestions it would be great.

hope this helps, let me know if you need any more help.

provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match

Authentication or permission failure. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in "/tmp". Failed command was: ( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-2756uxxwdzsa/ansible-