Healthbot REST calls with Ansible

We will use Ansible to interact with Healthbot.

This Ansible playbook pb_configure_healthbot.yml:

• generates healthbot configuration for new devices
• load this configuration on healthbot
• commit this changeset on healthbot
• collects the healthtbot running configuration for devices.

So, this is a very basic Ansible demo.

Demo

install ansible

$ pip install ansible

install python libraries

$ pip install jinja2
$ pip install pyyaml

indicate healthbot ip address and credentials, and the devices you want to add to healthbot

$ vi ansible_input.yml

generate ansible inventory

$ python ./generate_ansible_inventory.py
$ more hosts

generate ansible variables

$ python ./generate_vars_for_ansible.py
$ ls host_vars

execute this playbook

$ ansible-playbook pb_configure_healthbot.yml --forks 1

Verify on your Ansible server

$ ls ansible_output/
$ more ansible_output/healthbot_running_config_for_devices.json