Configure Clock Timezone and Summertime on Cisco IOS with Ansible Playbook

Oct22021

Configure Clock timezone and summertime on Cisco IOS with very easy Ansible playbook.

You can find a list of Clock Commands on Cisco IOS XR Software here

1. Create an empty YAML file and name it config_clock.yaml with below codes:

   # @author [Hawar Koyi]
   # @email [hawar.koy@gmail.com]
   # @create date 2021-10-02 16:29
   # @desc [Automation - Conffigure Clock Timezone and Summertime on Cisco IOS]
   
   #Start of codes
   ---
   - name: Configure Clock Timezone and Summertime on Cisco IOS
     hosts: Cisco
     connection: network_cli
     gather_facts: false
   
     tasks:
   
      #Set timezone CET (Europe/Oslo) and summertime
      - name: Timezome and summertime
        ios_config:
           lines:
               #Configuration commands                         
             - clock timezone CET 1 0
             - clock summer-time CEST recurring last Sun Mar 2:00 last Sun Oct 3:00
   
      #Saving the configurations on start-config
      - name: Save running-config to start-config
        ios_config:
          save_when: modified
   
      #Get retur output from the show commands
      - name: "Get clock configurations"
        register: get_clock_config
        ios_command:
          commands:
             - "show running-config | include clock timezone"
             - "show running-config | include clock summer-time"
   
     #Output final results on the device run and start-config. 
      - name: Show finally configurations on device
        debug:
         var: get_clock_config.stdout
   
   #End of codes

2.  Create an empty text file and name it hosts with devices IP-addresses and the defaults values.
   As you can see I only added one device, otherwise you can add more than one device, if they have the same username and password.

   [Cisco]
   192.168.10.122
   192.168.xx.xx
   
   [Cisco:vars]
   ansible_connection=network_cli
   ansible_network_os=ios
   ansible_user=cisco
   ansible_password=cisco
   ansible_become=yes
   ansible_become_method=enable
   ansible_become_password=cisco

3. Finally run this command:

   ansible-playbook -i hosts config_clock.yaml

   Results looks like the image below.

   

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