[ansible-project] Re: Need help in setting ansible for sonicwall backups

2024-04-17 Thread dbs34
Hello! I can offer some advice. In my findings, often there are no vendor canned, provided modules so you have to use the netcommon.cli module which works just as well. I have successfully deployed playbooks for cisco ios, cisco asa, dell, wlcs and nxos. Here is one playbook I use for my asa

[ansible-project] Re: Multi prompt issue with cisco.ios.ios_command

2024-01-26 Thread dbs34
Hi Bikram, You could try splitting the tasks into two seperate tasks and adding a pause. see below. - name: Install new IOS image hosts: cisco_switches tasks: - name: Add IOS image ios_command: commands: - command: install add file flash:cat9k_iosxe.17.09.04a.SPA.bin activate commit prompt

Re: [ansible-project] Re: how to encrypt ssh_pass password without asking any more password

2023-12-15 Thread dbs34
Here is how I do it. I think this is what you want. The way I did it is using a SSH keyring. In the ansible.cfg private_key_file = /etc/ansible/id_rsa_ansible Next share the public key out to all clients, then on the ansible server I created a shell script that invokes #!/bin/env bash ssh-ag

Re: [ansible-project] Ansible ping report

2023-11-07 Thread dbs34
would you mind sharing the whole, newly updated playbook? thank you! On Monday, November 6, 2023 at 2:58:31 PM UTC-5 Vladimir Botka wrote: > On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 08:40:19 -0700 (PDT) > Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > > > --- PING REPORT --- > > {% for pr in ping_result.results %} > > {{ pr.stdout_lines

Re: [ansible-project] Date Time Conversion

2023-07-26 Thread dbs34
cool I see thank you! but how do you avoid the special characters in the file name? like so. ' "2023_07_26_14_34_22.txt" ' --- - name: date format filename hosts: localhost gather_facts: 0 tasks: - name: create my file ansible.builtin.file: path: /tmp/"{{ now(fmt="%Y_

[ansible-project] Re: Unable to Cisco IOS due to KexAlgorithms

2023-07-10 Thread dbs34
I had a very similar problem that was resolved by creating a file called config under the users .ssh directory. this file contains Host k200 hoitsw0* hosw*0* hoswe0* mislxsrv stage instore central zzswm01 sysadm rvswm0* clswm0* cmswa0* cmswm0* crsw* gwswm* Ciphers +aes256-cbc,3des-cbc K

[ansible-project] pip3 and python

2023-07-03 Thread dbs34
Hello! Shouln't I see my pip pointing to the same python version as what ansibile is reporting, python3.9? Or why is pip9.0.3 pointing to python3.6 and not 3.9? [root@ho-lx-ansible01 dnf]# python3 -m pip -V *pip 9.0.3 from /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (python 3.6)* [root@ho-lx-ansible01

Re: [ansible-project] mail multi-line format

2023-06-23 Thread dbs34
r: r...@ho-lx-ansible..com host: internal-smtp.x.com subtype: html to: 'dbsm...@mx.com' subject: test body: "{{ email_body }}" ... On Friday, June 23, 2023 at 1:32:34 PM UTC-4 Dick Visser wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 at 18:40, dbs34

[ansible-project] mail multi-line format

2023-06-23 Thread dbs34
Hello! I have tried various ways to get my output to email in a readable format, with newlines, but ansible strips them off everytime. Its just a few shell commands i am testing. I've tried a for loop, with items, replace, etc. My email output is all on one-line like so: "- ' 12:23:27 up 64

[ansible-project] mail multiline body

2023-06-23 Thread dbs34
Hello! I have tried various ways to get my output to email in a readable format, with newlines, but ansible strips them off everytime. Its just a few shell commands i am testing. I've tried a for loop, with items, replace, etc. My email output is all on one-line like so: "- ' 12:23:27 up 64

[ansible-project] the password to my vault

2023-06-09 Thread dbs34
Hi All! Can the passowrd for my actual vault file as shown /etc/ansible/group_vars/.vltfile.yml be encrypted? Will ansible auto decrypt it? My client vault file which holds the actual user-names and password is encryted but I never found or disceoverd it your password vault file can be from

[ansible-project] ansible upgrade

2023-06-08 Thread dbs34
Has anyone had issues with their playbooks running after upgrading from 2.13 to 2.14 of ansible? I kept getting run error from my cisco.* playbooks. My linux playbooks worked fine however. I backed out the upgrade and now my cisco.* playbooks work again Is there a specific upgrade process to

[ansible-project] upgrade ansible

2023-06-08 Thread dbs34
Has anyone upgraded to 2.14 and had issues running their playbooks, specifically the cisco.* playbooks? I kept getting this error during my runs. The full traceback is: File "/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/modules/cli_command.py", line 170, in main

[ansible-project] Re: cisco asa backups playbook fails

2023-05-03 Thread dbs34
I was able to get past this error by setting ansible_network_terminal_errors=ignore in my hosts file By default its set to fatal. [ASA:vars] ansible_network_terminal_errors=ignore On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 5:03:44 PM UTC-4 dbs34 wrote: > I ran some more tests and it does not matter w

[ansible-project] Re: cisco asa backups playbook fails

2023-05-02 Thread dbs34
2:48:50 PM UTC-4 dbs34 wrote: > Hello All! > > I have been tasked with backing up our network devices. I am not a > network guy but I know ansible and linux. I keep getting this error and > have not found much on the web for help. *The error is "unable to disable > te

[ansible-project] cisco asa backups playbook fails

2023-05-02 Thread dbs34
Hello All! I have been tasked with backing up our network devices. I am not a network guy but I know ansible and linux. I keep getting this error and have not found much on the web for help. *The error is "unable to disable terminal pager." * PLAY [Backup ASA Configuration] ***