Mastering Python Networking - Second Edition

Final playbook

We are now ready to incorporate this new parser script back into our playbook. We can now add the additional task of rendering the output with graph generation in cisco_discover_lldp.yml:

  tasks:    - name: Query for LLDP Neighbors      ios_command:        commands: show lldp neighbors        provider: "{{ cli }}"      register: output    - name: show output      debug:        var: output    - name: copy output to file      copy: content="{{ output.stdout_lines }}" dest="./tmp/{{ inventory_hostname }}_lldp_output.txt"    - name: Execute Python script to render output      command: ./cisco_graph_lldp.py

This playbook will now include four tasks, covering the end-to-end process of executing the show lldp command on the Cisco devices, displaying the output on the screen, copying the ...