Logging to readable format

[RayO]

Hi. I have a very basic cisco IOS playbook i'm working on and when I log the output to a file I cannot read the format. I read a few threads that mention enabling a callback option in the ansible.cfg but that does not seem to work. Does anyone know how I can accomplish logging to a readable text?

---

- name: IOS General Checks

  hosts: switches

  gather_facts: false

  connection: network_cli

  tasks:

    - name: Standard IOS Checks

      ios_command:

        commands:

          - show int status

          - show int description

      register: output1

    - name: print result

      debug:

        var: output1.stdout_lines

    - name: copy output to file

      copy: content="{{ output1.stdout_lines }}" dest=/home/sideswipe/ansible/cisco/logs/{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt

...

# config file for ansible -- https://ansible.com/

# ===============================================

# nearly all parameters can be overridden in ansible-playbook

# or with command line flags. ansible will read ANSIBLE_CONFIG,

# ansible.cfg in the current working directory, .ansible.cfg in

# the home directory or /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, whichever it

# finds first

[defaults]

display_failed_stderr = no

display_ok_hosts = yes

display_skipped_hosts = yes

show_custom_stats = no

show_per_host_start = no

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 3/12/20 2:52 PM, RayO wrote:
> Hi. I have a very basic cisco IOS playbook i'm working on and when I log the output to a file I cannot read the format.
> I read a few threads that mention enabling a callback option in the ansible.cfg but that does not seem to work. Does
> anyone know how I can accomplish logging to a readable text?
>

Ansible stringifies the list object output1.stdout_lines, but you want to print each element of this list to line
in the file.

Using "{{ output1.stdout_lines | join('\n') }}" should do the trick.

Regards
Racke

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[RayO]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately though it doesn't look like that worked. I replaced the below line with the entry you provided but it's still printing in a bad format

copy: content="{{ output1.stdout_lines | join('\n') }}"

Any other ideas?

>       copy: content="{{ output1.stdout_lines }}" dest=/home/user/ansible/cisco/logs/{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt

>
> ...
>
> # config file for ansible -- https://ansible.com/
> # ===============================================
>
> # nearly all parameters can be overridden in ansible-playbook
> # or with command line flags. ansible will read ANSIBLE_CONFIG,
> # ansible.cfg in the current working directory, .ansible.cfg in
> # the home directory or /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, whichever it
> # finds first
>
> [defaults]
> display_failed_stderr = no
> display_ok_hosts = yes
> display_skipped_hosts = yes
> show_custom_stats = no
> show_per_host_start = no
>
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[RayO]

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[RayO]

I was able to resolve this finding the below thread. In my case I had to alter the config slightly to the below. This was to merge the text together no space and eliminate "_lines"

    - name: print result

      debug:

        var: output1.stdout_lines

    - name: copy output to file

      copy: content="{{output1.stdout|join("\n")}}" dest=/home/userfolder/ansible/cisco/logs/{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt

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