Cisco Modules

[Roger Gomez]

Normally when we use regular plays, we define a group of hosts and all the tasks in the playbook are executed in the list of hosts defined. For the case of the Cisco modules we need an additional host inside each module declaration for the tasks:

---

- hosts:

  - some_host

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - nxos_command:

     username: ansible

     commands:

     - show ip route

     transport: cli

     use_ssl: no

     host: some_host

I would like to understand why we need this extra-declaration of host (I already understand that was written like that :) ) and if there is a way that we can use this modules to behave like any other modules we use in linux where we only need to declare a host once.

Thanks.

[Lisa Huang]

My guess it is for nxapi API.