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Understanding network device management

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Understanding network device management

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This lesson is about managing of network devices. Before I'm showing you the hands-on, let's start with some generic considerations of things you need to know about before you start managing network devices. So to manage network devices, you need modules. The modules exist for many network devices, but not all. and to get an impression of what is available, have a look at ansible.com slash integrations slash networks. The thing is that in order to support network devices, the network device vendor needs to be willing to collaborate. Some do, some don't. So you will be very successful in managing, for example, Cisco network devices, while other network devices are not that successful. And we will notice that even within a network device vendor, there are differences. So if you work with network devices, you will need to identify the network devices in inventory. In the end, from the perspective of Ansible, it's just a managed asset. You might want to use dynamic inventory, especially…

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