Red Hat Ansible for Network Automation

After completing this section, you be able to enable SNMP management and configure a read-only community with Ansible.

Ansible makes it easy to manage configuration of SNMP settings, including the community string and access restrictions.

The following task configures the community string for read-only access on an IOS device:

- name: set the RO community string
  ios_config:
    lines:
      - snmp-server community {{ ro_community }} RO

A similar configuration statement for VyOS is shown below:

- name: set the RO community string
  vyos_config:
    lines:
      - set service snmp community {{ ro_community }} authorization ro