Hi,
You can try using the new (as of Ansible 2.4) "preview" telnet module:
telnet - Executes a low-down and dirty telnet command
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/telnet_module.html
Make sure your host file entries resolve in DNS or just use the IP.
Sample host file group:
[cisco]
arctic-sw01 host=10.1.10.100 port=22 username=cisco password=cisco
10.1.10.100 username=cisco password=cisco
Sample Playbook - here I am just getting the show inventory output (because
its short) and saving it to a variable called output with is a data
structure of all the output. Then I take the part I want to save, the
actual show inventory output and save it to a file called <hostname>.txt in
the ./FACTs directory.
You can uncomment the term len 0 and show run commands and do the same.
---
- hosts: cisco
connection: local
gather_facts: False
ignore_errors: yes
tasks:
- name: run show commands via Telnet
telnet:
user: "{{ username }}"
password: "{{ password }}"
login_prompt: "Username: "
prompts:
- "[>|#]"
command:
# - terminal length 0
# - show run
- show inventory
register: output
- debug: var=output
- local_action: copy content="{{ output.output[0] }}" dest="./FACTs/{{
inventory_hostname }}.txt"
Sample Run:
root@127c868b9dd3:/ansible/ansible2_4_base# ansible-playbook -i hosts
ios_telnet.yml
PLAY [cisco]
********************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [run show commands via Telnet]
*********************************************************************************************************
changed: [arctic-sw01]
changed: [10.1.10.100]
TASK [debug]
********************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [arctic-sw01] => {
"output": {
"changed": true,
"failed": false,
"output": [
"show inventory\r\nNAME: \"arctic-sw01\", DESCR: \"Cisco
Catalyst c2940 switch with 8 10/100 BaseTX ports and 1 10/100/1000 BaseT
uplink port\"\r\nPID: WS-C2940-8TT-S , VID: D0 , SN:
FHK0834Y19X\r\n\r\n\r\narctic-sw01#"
]
}
}
ok: [10.1.10.100] => {
"output": {
"changed": true,
"failed": false,
"output": [
"show inventory\r\nNAME: \"arctic-sw01\", DESCR: \"Cisco
Catalyst c2940 switch with 8 10/100 BaseTX ports and 1 10/100/1000 BaseT
uplink port\"\r\nPID: WS-C2940-8TT-S , VID: D0 , SN:
FHK0834Y19X\r\n\r\n\r\narctic-sw01#"
]
}
}
TASK [copy]
*********************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [arctic-sw01 -> localhost]
changed: [10.1.10.100 -> localhost]
PLAY RECAP
**********************************************************************************************************************************
10.1.10.100 : ok=3 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0
arctic-sw01 : ok=3 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0
root@127c868b9dd3:/ansible/ansible2_4_base# cd facts/
root@127c868b9dd3:/ansible/ansible2_4_base/facts# ls
10.1.10.100.txt arctic-sw01.txt nxos-spine1.txt nxos-spine2.txt
root@127c868b9dd3:/ansible/ansible2_4_base/facts# cat 10.1.10.100.txt
show inventory
NAME: "arctic-sw01", DESCR: "Cisco Catalyst c2940 switch with 8 10/100
BaseTX ports and 1 10/100/1000 BaseT uplink port"
PID: WS-C2940-8TT-S , VID: D0 , SN: FHK0834Y19X
arctic-sw01#root@127c868b9dd3:/ansible/ansible2_4_base/facts
Hope this helps.
The only other approach I'm aware of is to use the NTC modules which use
Napalm and the Cisco IOS modules use Netmiko under the hood which supports
Telnet although last I checked I didn't think the Telnet option was
exposed.
Note that the end goal of this module is to telnet to a device to enable
SSH but I know that is sometimes not possible.
On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 6:08:11 AM UTC-8, Daley Okuwa wrote:
>
> Is there any information that allows me to backup a cisco device using
> telnet rather than ssh as the device do not support SSH
>
>
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