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Using generic modules for network device management

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Using generic modules for network device management

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All right, I briefly also want to talk about using generic modules for network device management. So what is the thing? The thing is that there is net common. So the problem is when managing multiple different network devices, you would need to use device specific modules in all cases. So if there's 100 of device manufacturers, you need 100 different modules. That's so complicated. And that is why there is the Ansible NetCommon collection. The Ansible NetCommon collection was developed with in mind the option to provide one common interface for managing network devices. And it uses CLI functionality against a wide range of different network devices. It also uses common plugins to connect to a wide range of devices. So netcommon, that must be one of the things from Galaxy. Let's check it out. So here we are on Galaxy and in search. If you look for netcommon. Then this is what you get, netcommon. And as you can see, netcommon is right here. and you can find some information. Here is a…

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