Network Automation Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Create a new playbook called pb_op_cmds.yml and populate it with the following tasks to create the directory structure to save the output from the devices:

---  - name: "Play 1: Execute Operational Commands"    hosts: network    vars:      config_folder: "configs"      op_folder: "op_data"      op_cmds:        - show ip ospf neighbor        - show ip route    tasks:      - name: "P1T1: Build Directories to Store Data"        block:          - name: "Create folder to store Device config"            file:              path: "{{ config_folder }}"              state: directory          - name: "Create Folder to store operational commands"            file:              path: "{{ op_folder }}"              state: directory        run_once: yes        delegate_to: localhost

2. Update the pb_op_cmds.yml playbook and populate it with the following tasks to retrieve the running configuration ...