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I am looking for some directions to fix an issue where i am not able to save or redirect the Ansible debug output to a JSON or md file.

    - debug:

        msg: 

         - "{{ item.results['show ip route'].splitlines() }}"  

         - "{{ item.results['show ip route summary'].splitlines() }}"

         - "{{ item.results['show ip route 0.0.0.0'].splitlines() }}"



      loop:

        - "{{ out2 }}"

The above mentioned debug module runs at the very end of my playbook. The playbook mainly uses "napalm_cli" network module to collect few outputs from a device. The "napalm_cli" module output is not nicely formatted,so, i have to use splitlines.

Now i am trying to save below output as a file

ok: [lab1-r1] => (item={'failed': False, u'changed': False, u'results': {u'show ip route': u'Codes: L - local, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP, M - mobile, B - BGPn       D - EIGRP, EX - EIGRP external, O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area n       N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2n       E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2n       i - IS-IS, su - IS-IS summary, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS level-2n       ia - IS-IS inter area, * - candidate default, U - per-user static routen       o - ODR, P - periodic downloaded static route, H - NHRP, l - LISPn       a - application routen       + - replicated route, % - next hop override, p - overrides from PfRnnGateway of last resort is not setnn      172.16.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masksnC        172.16.10.0/24 is directly connected, GigabitEthernet0/1nL        172.16.10.1/32 is directly connected, GigabitEthernet0/1', u'show ip route summary': u'IP routing table name is default (0x0)nIP routing table maximum-paths is 32nRoute Source    Networks    Subnets     Replicates  Overhead    Memory (bytes)nconnected       0           2           0           136         360nstatic          0           0           0           0           0napplication     0           0           0           0           0ninternal        1                                               440nTotal           1           2           0           136         800', u'show ip route 0.0.0.0': u'% Network not in table'}}) => {

"msg": [

    [

        "Codes: L - local, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP, M - mobile, B - BGP", 

        "       D - EIGRP, EX - EIGRP external, O - OSPF, IA - OSPF inter area ", 

        "       N1 - OSPF NSSA external type 1, N2 - OSPF NSSA external type 2", 

        "       E1 - OSPF external type 1, E2 - OSPF external type 2", 

        "       i - IS-IS, su - IS-IS summary, L1 - IS-IS level-1, L2 - IS-IS level-2", 

        "       ia - IS-IS inter area, * - candidate default, U - per-user static route", 

        "       o - ODR, P - periodic downloaded static route, H - NHRP, l - LISP", 

        "       a - application route", 

        "       + - replicated route, % - next hop override, p - overrides from PfR", 

        "", 

        "Gateway of last resort is not set", 

        "", 

        "      172.16.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks", 

        "C        172.16.10.0/24 is directly connected, GigabitEthernet0/1", 

        "L        172.16.10.1/32 is directly connected, GigabitEthernet0/1"

    ], 

    [

        "IP routing table name is default (0x0)", 

        "IP routing table maximum-paths is 32", 

        "Route Source    Networks    Subnets     Replicates  Overhead    Memory (bytes)", 

        "connected       0           2           0           136         360", 

        "static          0           0           0           0           0", 

        "application     0           0           0           0           0", 

        "internal        1                                               440", 

        "Total           1           2           0           136         800"

    ], 

    [

        "% Network not in table"

    ]

]

}

Also, i would like to get rid of the content between

ok: [lab1-r1] =>   napalm_cli non formatted output

"msg": [

Any ideas or thoughts.

Thank You

NN

I believe you may want JSON callback (there is also a yaml one, and XMPP, and a whole list of them). The instructions for enabling them are in the fine manual, but the very short version is to just define an environment variable when calling ansible-playbook:

env ANSIBLE_STDOUT_CALLBACK=json ansible-playbook ...

(it works with ansible, too, if you just wanted to run a single task)