AltaLabsCourse-mycode/playbook-textfsm01.yml at main · rodriguezmarkd/AltaLabsCourse-mycode · GitHub

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---
- name: Testing with TextFSM
  hosts: localhost

  vars:
    results:
      stdout: "{{ lookup('file', '/home/student/mycode/files/cisco_ver.txt') }}"

  tasks:
  # pretend that these "results" just came back from a command like
  # enable
  # show version
  #
  - name: Display our results from the command "show version"
    debug:
      var: results.stdout

  # there is data we want in that blob of text
  # we can grab that data by passing our (predictable) text blob through
  # a textfsm template (we would need to design this)
  # creating the template can be very time consuming
  # It also depends on you understanding regular expression
  - name: Mimic parsing output with TextFSM
    set_fact:
      ciscofacts: "{{ results.stdout | parse_cli_textfsm('/home/student/mycode/files/cisco_ver_temp.txt') }}"


  # display the "new" facts harvested by textfsm
  # it might be more proper to say that our data
  # has just become more easily accessible
  - name: Show the new facts
    debug:
      var: ciscofacts

  - name: Display the image
    debug:
      var: ciscofacts[0].ImageFile

  - name: Display the memory
    debug:
      var: ciscofacts[0].Memory