Ansible 2.2 ios modules are failing with message "Failed to connect to the host via ssh."

[davis mathew kuriakose]

I'm not able to run ios_command module in Ansible 2.1 for executing commands on my cisco routers.

I've written a playbook for testing ios_command module on cisco routers.

Following is the playbook I wrote 

---
  - hosts: router2

   tasks:

     - ios_command:

        username: cisco

        password: cisco

#         host: router2.3node.example.com

        commands:

          - show version

        register: output

     - debug: msg="Hello World! {{ output.stdout }}"

But the playbook fails with the following message :

fatal: [router2.3node.example.com]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh.", "unreachable": true}

and value unreachable=1

Also find the output while run on debug mode

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************

Using module file /home/cisco/ansible_dev/ansible/lib/ansible/modules/core/system/setup.py

<router2.3node.example.com> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None

<router2.3node.example.com> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -q -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/cisco/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r router2.3node.example.com '/bin/sh -c '"'"'( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1464109982.9-18150317646623 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1464109982.9-18150317646623="` echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1464109982.9-18150317646623 `" ) && sleep 0'"'"''



fatal: [router2.3node.example.com]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh.", "unreachable": true}

Please let me know if someone has tried the same and solved this problem.

Thanks & Regards,

Davis

[Peter Sprygada]

Add connection: local to your playbook

On 5/24/16 1:19 PM, davis mathew kuriakose wrote:
> I'm not able to run ios_command module in Ansible 2.1 for executing
> commands on my cisco routers.
>
>
> I've written a playbook for testing ios_command module on cisco routers.
>
> Following is the playbook I wrote
>
>
> ---
> - hosts: router2
>
> tasks:
>
> - ios_command:
>
> username: cisco
>
> password: cisco
>
> # host: router2.3node.example.com
>
> commands:
>
> - show version
>
> register: output
>
> - debug: msg="Hello World! {{ output.stdout }}"
>
>
> But the playbook fails with the following message :
>
>

> *fatal: [router2.3node.example.com]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false,
> "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh.", "unreachable": true}*
>
>
> and value *unreachable=1*