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

You can use:

- name: reload device
  ios_command:
    commands:
      - "reload in 1\ny"
    provider: "{{ cli }}"

This will reload the device in 1 minute and the reload prompt gets accepted. It works well for ansible because the default prompt of ios will come back (reload gets triggered in 1 minute).

Regards, Simon