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Requirements for managing assets

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Requirements for managing assets

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All right, so at this point, you have a control node installed. Let's talk about the requirements for managing anything with Ansible. So what is needed in order to manage your IT assets with Ansible? Well, first, you need a remote connectivity, that is SSH on Linux. And if you're on Windows, for instance, you would use WinRM, the Windows Remote Manager. And on different devices it really depends on what the device is offering. You also need to make sure that Python packages are installed. That is because if you use the Ansible commands, Ansible will generate a Python script that is executed on the remote host. Obviously, that's not going to work if you don't have Python packages installed. And you need a user account that has sufficient privileges to do whatever needs to be done on the managed assets. So privilege escalation. In Linux, that would be a sudo configuration is required. Now let's talk about sudo privileges. Many people who are starting with Ansible want to configure sudo…

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