This Ansible script takes backup of multiple Cisco ASA devices and writes the results into output folder. The script collects the Cisco ASA device facts in addition to take backup.

The inventory yaml format is simple as below.

---
all:
  children:
    all_cisco_asa:
      hosts:
        ciscoasa1:
          inventory_network_os: cisco.asa.asa
          inventory_network_cisco_asa_type: vpn
          inventory_network_cisco_asa_ha_type: standalone
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.98
          inventory_port: 22
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password
    all_f5:
      hosts:
        bigip1:
          inventory_network_os: f5.bigip
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.245
          inventory_port: 443
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password
        bigip2:
          inventory_network_os: f5.bigip
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.246
          inventory_port: 443
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password
        bigip3:
          inventory_network_os: f5.bigip
          inventory_host: 192.168.1.247
          inventory_port: 443
          inventory_user: admin
          inventory_pass: password

Ansible ansible-pylibssh modules must be installed before running the script.

pip install ansible-pylibssh

ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False ansible-playbook -vvvv --vault-password-file vault_pass.yaml -i inventory-vault.yaml cisco-asa-backup.yml --extra-vars="asa_device=ciscoasa1" --extra-vars="ha_type=standalone" --extra-vars="asa_type=vpn" --extra-vars="device_facts=true"

NOTE: output folder must be created before running the script.

• cisco-asa-backup.yml >> Ansible script file
• vault_pass.yaml >> Inventory vault password information
• inventory-vault.yaml >> Inventory vault file encrypted by "Inventory vault password"

• asa_device variable shows which Cisco ASA device/devices will be connected.The value can be "ciscoasa1", "ciscoasa2" or "all_cisco_asa" for all devices under this line as per the example inventory file above.
• ha_type variable is just a tag for definition of Cisco ASA device. It can be "active", "standby", "standalone" etc. If you assign "any" value, the script will take any type of "ha_type"
• asa_type variable is just another tag variable. You can define the firewall types as "vpn", "internal", "external" etc. If you assign "any" value, the script will take any type of "asa_type"
• device_facts variable shows the gathering facts paramater. If the value is true, then Device Facts will be retrieved and is written into output folder. The simple Device Facts are Version, Serial Number, Memory, Disk states etc.

{
	"ansible_facts": {
		"ansible_network_resources": {},
		"ansible_net_gather_network_resources": [],
		"ansible_net_gather_subset": [
			"default",
			"hardware"
		],
		"ansible_net_system": "asa",
		"ansible_net_image": "boot:/asa9184-24-smp-k8.bin",
		"ansible_net_version": "9.18(4)24",
		"ansible_net_hostname": "ciscoasa",
		"ansible_net_device_mgr_version": "7.19(1)95",
		"ansible_net_api": "cliconf",
		"ansible_net_python_version": "3.10.12",
		"ansible_net_asatype": "ASA",
		"ansible_net_serialnum": "9A9841LNBBK",
		"ansible_net_filesystems": [
			"disk0:"
		],
		"ansible_net_filesystems_info": {
			"disk0:": {
				"spacetotal_kb": 8370192.0,
				"spacefree_kb": 8203096.0
			}
		},
		"ansible_net_memfree_mb": 713879,
		"ansible_net_memused_mb": 1302664,
		"ansible_net_memtotal_mb": 2016544
	},
	"failed": false,
	"changed": false
}

• ciscoasa1-2024-06-21-20-02-52.facts
• ciscoasa1-2024-06-21-20-02-52.txt