Question about backing up running config

[farhadkam]

Hi Experts,

Is there any way to backup panos running config using ansible?

Thanks and sorry for this as I could not find any module in Ansible Documentation for backing up Panos.

[dmitryzykov]

I've created a napalm-ansible module napalm_get_config for creating backup of running config. It works for panos well.

role

- name: install napalm
  pip:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: latest
  with_items: 
    - napalm
    - napalm-ansible
    - napalm-panos

- name: backup config
  napalm_get_config:
    hostname: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    dev_os: "{{ os }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    dest: "{{ backup_path }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    strip_comments: "{{ backup_strip_comments }}"
  register: config
  environment: 
    PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY: 0 # do not verify ssl certs at panos devices

ansible.cfg

[defaults]
library = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/napalm_ansible

playbook

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  connection: local
  roles:
    - backup

https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm
https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm-ansible
napalm-automation/napalm-ansible#131
https://github.com/napalm-automation-community/napalm-panos/

[farhadkam]

Thanks I will test it as soon as I get back from my trip.