Red Hat Ansible for Network Automation

Procedure 2.1. Instructions

1. Change to the ~/proj/ directory created in Lab 1.

2. Verify that the cs01 device can ping the tower machine (172.25.250.9).

   [student@workstation proj]$ ansible -m ios_ping -a "dest=172.25.250.9" cs01
   SSH password: student
   cs01 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "commands": [
           "ping 172.25.250.9"
       ],
       "packet_loss": "20%",
       "packets_rx": 4,
       "packets_tx": 5,
       "rtt": {
           "avg": 2,
           "max": 4,
           "min": 1
       }
   }

3. Use the traceroute command to inspect the path between cs01 and the management workstation.

   [student@workstation proj]$ ansible -m ios_command \
   > -a "commands='traceroute 172.25.250.254 probe 2 timeout 2'" cs01
   SSH password: student
   cs01 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "stdout": [
           "Type escape sequence to abort.\nTracing the route to 172.25.250.254\nVRF info:
   (vrf in name/id, vrf out name/id)\n 1 172.25.250.254 4 msec 1 msec"
       ],
       "stdout_lines": [
           [
               "Type escape sequence to abort.",
               "Tracing the route to 172.25.250.254",
               "VRF info: (vrf in name/id, vrf out name/id)",
               " 1 172.25.250.254 4 msec 1 msec"
           ]
       ]
   }

4. An extremely useful command for VyOS devices is sh conf com, which displays the running configuration. You will see other ways of obtaining the running configuration (vyos_conf module with backup=yes, vyos_facts with subset=all).

   [student@workstation proj]$ ansible -m vyos_command \
   > -a "commands='sh conf com'" spine01
   SSH password: vyos
   spine01 | SUCCESS => {
       "changed": false,
       "stdout": [
   ...output omitted...