Network Automation with Ansible by Jason Edelman

Author:Jason Edelman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Published: 2016-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

Reporting

We now understand that Ansible can also be used to collect data and perform compliance checks. The data being returned and collected from the device by way of Ansible is up for grabs in terms of what you want to do with it. Maybe the data being returned becomes inputs to other tasks, or maybe you just want to create reports. Being that reports are generated from templates combined with the actual important data to be inserted into the template, the process to create and use reporting templates is the same process used to create configuration templates.

From a reporting perspective, these templates may be flat text files, markdown files that are viewed on GitHub, HTML files that get dynamically placed on a web server, and the list goes on. The user has the power to create the exact type of report she wishes, inserting the exact data she needs to be part of that report.

It is powerful to create reports not only for executive management, but also for the ops engineers, since there are usually different metrics both teams need.

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