We can now use another Ansible playbook, namely cisco_discover_lldp.yml, to execute the LLDP command on the device and copy the output of each device to a tmp directory:
<skip> tasks: - name: Query for LLDP Neighbors ios_command: commands: show lldp neighbors provider: "{{ cli }}"<skip>
The ./tmp directory now consists of all the routers' output (showing LLDP neighbors) in its own file:
$ ls -l tmp/total 20-rw-rw-r-- 1 echou echou 630 Mar 13 17:12 r1_lldp_output.txt-rw-rw-r-- 1 echou echou 630 Mar 13 17:12 r2_lldp_output.txt-rw-rw-r-- 1 echou echou 701 Mar 12 12:28 r3_lldp_output.txt-rw-rw-r-- 1 echou echou 772 Mar 12 12:28 r5-tor_lldp_output.txt-rw-rw-r-- 1 echou echou 630 Mar 13 17:12 r6-edge_lldp_output.txt
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