Hi Claudia, Thanks for responding. I think the target hardware was the problem (I should have put that in the original post) , but not sure. It's a Cisco ASA 5540 running 9.1(7)23. I just got this working using the asa_command module (which I didn't know existed). Is there a difference between Cisco IOS on an ASA? I have no idea, I'm the Linux guy, not the Network guy so...
Below is the playbook I used to solve my problem: --- - hosts: ios_fw any_errors_fatal: True gather_facts: no connection: local vars: cli: host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}" username: ans password: XXxxXXxXxX # transport: cli tasks: - asa_command: commands: - show version provider: "{{ cli }}" register: ver - debug: var=ver.stdout_lines This pretty much gets me what I was looking for although getting to this point drove me pretty crazy for the past few days. I'm new to Ansible but want to use it heavily in our managed services environment. My particular plan is to create reports with the output of this play. On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 1:15:39 PM UTC-5, Claudia de Luna wrote: > > Hi Otto, > > What version and model are you trying to gather facts from? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/c7a69746-9908-450f-b18f-56a81eb4e291%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.