Ansible VM and GNS3 routers

[jesty sam]

Hi 

I have two VM's in Azure, 1 VM running Ansible and the other having GNS3 (with connected routers and switches). I am able to telnet from Ansible server to the Routers configured in GNS3 however when i run a playbook i get an error

PLAY [gather information from routers] *********************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [gather router facts] *********************************************************************************************************************************************

fatal: [10.0.0.21]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "[Errno None] Unable to connect to port 5007 on 10.0.0.21"}

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************************************************************

10.0.0.21                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

---

- name: gather information from routers

  hosts: ios

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

    - name: gather router facts

      ios_facts:

Below is the hosts file entry

[ios]

10.0.0.21:5007

[ios:vars]

ansible_network_os=ios

#ansible_port=5007

ansible_connection=network_cli

ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/env python

what could be wrong?

[jesty sam]

Any suggestions?

[Nilashish Chakraborty]

Hello,

Are you able to manually SSH into the GNS3 Routers from the Ansible controller on the specified port? I see you are using `ansible_connection=network_cli`. This connection plugin provides a connection to remote devices over SSH and implements a CLI shell.