ansible - cisco IOS and “reload” command

Question

I would like to send command \"reload in \" to Cisco IOS, but that specific command needs to be confirmed like below:

#reload in 30
Reload scheduled in 30 minut         


        

Answer 1

Ansible 2.2 only

You could use something like this:

  - name: send reload command inc confirmation
    ios_command:
      commands: 
        - reload in 30
        - y
      wait_for: 
        - result[0] contains "Proceed with reload" 
      provider: "{{ cli }}"

Not tested but similar to last example for ios_command module.

Take care with Ansible 2.2 though, it's not released yet and new releases of Ansible can have significant regressions.

Ansible 2.0+ includes the expect module but that requires Python on the remote device, so it won't work on IOS or similar devices.