ansible-aos-demo

Backup Alcatel-lucent Enterprise AOS6 and AOS8 devices.

Contains all relevant files for blogpost: Backup Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Omniswitch AOS6 & AOS8 using Ansible

Overview

Backup all ALE aos6 and aos8 Omniswitch devices using CLI or REST API. Output connectors can be turned on to store backups to different locations: local, git, ...

Default transport connection

• AOS6: CLI connection
• AOS8: REST api

Output connectors

• Local
• Git

Installation

1. Install Python requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

2. Install Ansible-galaxy collections

ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml

Configuration

1. Add hosts to inventory.yml file

---
all:
  hosts:
    NET-SWI-001:
      ansible_host: <change_me>
      device_vendor: alcatel
      device_os: aos8

2. Alter credentials in group_vars/all/all.yml

---
ale_username: admin
ale_password: switch

3. Select output connectors

---
backup_local: true
backup_git: false

4. Optional: set git parameters

git_token: "<change_me>"
git_username: "<change_me>"
git_url: "<change_me>"
git_branch: "master"

5. call playbook from command line

ansible-playbook backup-all.yml

Note for production:

Use Ansible vault encrypted variables to store credentials

ansible-vault encrypt vault.yml