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

The r1_lldp_output.txt content is the output.stdout_lines variable from our Ansible playbook:

$ cat tmp/r1_lldp_output.txt

[["Capability codes:", " (R) Router, (B) Bridge, (T) Telephone, (C) DOCSIS Cable Device", " (W) WLAN Access Point, (P) Repeater, (S) Station, (O) Other", "", "Device ID Local Intf Hold-time Capability Port ID", "r2.virl.info Gi0/0 120 R Gi0/0", "r3.virl.info Gi0/0 120 R Gi0/0", "r5-tor.virl.info Gi0/0 120 R Gi0/0", "r5-tor.virl.info Gi0/1 120 R Gi0/1", "r6-edge.virl.info Gi0/0 120 R Gi0/0", "", "Total entries displayed: 5", ""]]