An 'Ansible ping' checks that Python is on the remote host - cisco iOS
probably doesn't
have that, so you'd manage it with ansible modules running on your ansible host.

On 25 April 2017 at 21:11, Mini <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ravi,
>
> Could you please tell how you made it work. what does this mean " fully
> qualified hostname" ?
> I am able to ssh using username@ip address but unable to ping it.
>
> I am using CentOS 7 and the host machine is a Cisco IOS router.
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 11:20:56 AM UTC-6, Ravi B wrote:
>>
>> Hi Toshio,
>>     You're right!! I was not able to ssh to 127.0.0.1.
>> $ ssh 127.0.0.1
>> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>>
>> Then I replaced 127.0.0.1 with the fully qualified hostname. After that it
>> worked ( I had to give the --ask-pass option to the command)
>>
>> $ ansible all -m ping --ask-pass
>> SSH password:
>> <host.ip.address.here> | SUCCESS => {
>>     "changed": false,
>>     "ping": "pong"
>> }
>>
>> Thank you Toshio and Chun-Hung for all your help! I can't thank you enough
>> as it solved my headache.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 9:47:13 AM UTC-5, tkuratomi wrote:
>>>
>>> Ssh 127.0.0.1 works?
>>> Does ansible all -m ping -c ssh work ?
>>>
>>> -Toshio
>>>
>>> On Jan 4, 2016 8:27 AM, "Ravi B" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>     I'm new to ansible and trying to get the basing ping working on
>>>> local host (127.0.0.1 in the $ANSIBLE_HOSTS file) but keep running into
>>>> problems.I thought the problem was python3 that was installed on the
>>>> machine, but I uninstalled python3 (deleted the python3 binaries and
>>>> reinstalled ansible from source). I'm still getting the same error with
>>>> ansible (see the error below in red).
>>>> The command "ansible all -m ping" is not working.
>>>>
>>>> # python -V
>>>> Python 2.7.11
>>>>
>>>> # pip install --upgrade paramiko
>>>> Requirement already up-to-date: paramiko in
>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paramiko-1.16.0-py2.7.egg
>>>> Requirement already up-to-date: pycrypto!=2.4,>=2.1 in
>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycrypto-2.6.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
>>>> (from paramiko)
>>>> Requirement already up-to-date: ecdsa>=0.11 in
>>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ecdsa-0.13-py2.7.egg (from paramiko)
>>>>
>>>> # cat $ANSIBLE_HOSTS
>>>> 127.0.0.1
>>>>
>>>> # ansible --version
>>>> ansible 1.9.4
>>>>   configured module search path = None
>>>>
>>>> # ansible all -m ping
>>>> No handlers could be found for logger "paramiko.transport"
>>>> 127.0.0.1 | FAILED => FAILED: Error reading SSH protocol banner[Errno
>>>> 104] Connection reset by peer
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting the same error with ansible 2 also
>>>> # ansible --version
>>>> ansible 2.1.0
>>>>   config file =
>>>>   configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
>>>>
>>>> # ansible all -m ping
>>>> No handlers could be found for logger "paramiko.transport"
>>>> 127.0.0.1 | UNREACHABLE! => {
>>>>     "changed": false,
>>>>     "msg": "ERROR! Error reading SSH protocol banner[Errno 104]
>>>> Connection reset by peer",
>>>>     "unreachable": true
>>>> }
>>>>
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