Cisco-Device-Backup-Ansible

This solution is for CISCO IOS,IOS-XR and IOS-XE Platfrom to get network backup using Ansible.Uses Ansible to fetch Running Config from the network and store them localy.

Use Case ::

Cisco IOS,IOS-XR and IOS-XE Network configuration backup.

System Requirenments:: 1) Python 3 In linux systems python is default enabled ,if not then install python first .

2) Ansible 

    Ansible Installation Process::
    
    On Fedora:
      $ sudo dnf install ansible

      On RHEL and CentOS:
      $ sudo yum install ansible

      On Ubuntu:
      $ sudo apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible
      $ sudo apt install ansible

      Using PIP:
      $ pip install --user ansible

      On Alpine:
      $ apk add ansible

Tool Installation::

Follow the below steps::

1) Clone the repo on Ansible Server machine .
   In case of Linux ::
   git clone https://github.com/sachin0987/Network-Automation-Python.git

2) Go to the directory :
    cd Cisco-Device-Backup-Ansible/ansible/

Configurations Steps::

3) Add the device ip and change the group vars
   >>Edit the inv.ini file
      #######################################IOS XR#############################################
      [xrdevices]
      192.168.120.1  >>repalce with your device IP  or add new one 
      192.168.120.2
      ########################################IOS ##############################################
      [iosdevices]
      192.168.120.3
      192.168.120.4
      ########################################IOS-XE#############################################
      [xedevices]
      192.168.120.5
      192.168.120.6
      
    >>Edit the group vars
    
      cd group_vars

      edit the each vars files.
      ---
        ansible_network_os: "ios"
        ansible_user: "user"           >>>>>set your user
        ansible_password: "password"   >>>>>set your pass
        
4) Finally run the play book:

       ansible-playbook backup_playbook.yml

Known Issues::

1)Devices must be reachable from the Ansible Server Machine.

Getting help

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