Could you get this to work?
I am running into the same issue.
Thank you!
On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 3:11:52 PM UTC-6, Mini wrote:
>
> I have been redirected from git hub issue list to here. Could someone
> please take a look and suggest:
>
> I am trying to work on a scenario in which I want to access Cisco and
> Juniper network devices and run my ansible network modules like get facts,
> get config, push config commands on them through ansible. The network
> devices are connected via console ports to an Avocent AS6000 server. So
> from a CentOS machine which is my ansible host machine, I want to login to
> the Avocent Server and then access the network devices using ansible
> playbooks. I am not sure how to go about it. Can anyone please guide me. I
> am new to this and sorry if i have posted in the wrong forum.
> Please note: I am able to run playbooks directly through management port
> of the Network devices. This serial console route is a second way to access
> the devices and need to write playbooks in case the management IP goes down
> or is inaccessible.
>
> COMPONENT NAME
> Network Modules
>
> ANSIBLE VERSION
> ansible --version
> ansible 2.3.2.0
> config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
> configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
> python version = 2.7.5 (default, Nov 6 2016, 00:28:07) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623
> (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)]
> `
> OS / ENVIRONMENT
> Centos7
> Avocent Server ACS6000
> Juniper EX2200
>
> SUMMARY
> Could someone please guide on how do I use ansible to login from my CentOS
> machine to an Avocent server and then navigate to different network devices
> that are connected serially on each port and run playbooks on it. Both
> CentOS and Avocent server is on the same network. I am able to ssh to the
> avocent device, but how do I access the network devices from it.
>
> Manual steps to access:
>
> 1. Login to avocent server via ssh through putty.
> 2. Go to cli mode. by typing cli command
> 3. Go to a particular folder which gives the port list of all the
> connected devices. The port number corresponds to each device connected
> serially to it
>
> Also, here is the playbook to check ssh connectivity:
>
> -
>
> hosts: avocent
> gather_facts: no
> connection: local
>
> tasks:
> -
>
> name: Check SSH CONNECTIVITY
> tags: push
> wait_for: host={{ansible_host}} port=22 timeout=5
> -
>
> name: print results
> debug: var=result
>
> ``
> ACTUAL RESULTS
> ok: [avocentfirst] => {
> "changed": false,
> "elapsed": 0,
> "invocation": {
> "module_args": {
> "active_connection_states": [
> "ESTABLISHED",
> "SYN_SENT",
> "SYN_RECV",
> "FIN_WAIT1",
> "FIN_WAIT2",
> "TIME_WAIT"
> ],
> "connect_timeout": 5,
> "delay": 0,
> "exclude_hosts": null,
> "host": "xx.xx.xx.xx",
> "path": null,
> "port": 22,
> "search_regex": null,
> "sleep": 1,
> "state": "started",
> "timeout": 5
> }
> },
> "path": null,
> "port": 22,
> "search_regex": null,
> "state": "started"
> }
>
> Below is the failure message when I try to acess the network device:
> Failure message:
>
> "msg": "unable to connect to xx.xx.xx.x..: ConnectError(host: xx.xx.xx.xx,
> msg: Unexpected session close\
>
>
> On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 1:13:18 PM UTC-5, Mini wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I am trying to work on a scenario in which I want to access Cisco and
>> Juniper network devices and run my ansible network modules like get facts,
>> get config, push config commands on them through ansible. The network
>> devices are connected via console ports to an Avocent AS6000 server. So
>> from a CentOS machine, i want to login to the Avocent Server and then
>> access the network device using ansible. I am not sure how to go about it.
>> Can anyone please guide me. I am new to this and sorry if i have posted in
>> the wrong forum.
>> Please note: I am able to run playbooks directly through management port
>> of the Network devices. This serial console route is a second way to access
>> the devices and need to write playbooks in case the management IP goes down
>> or is inaccessible.
>>
>
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