Question

A network engineer must build an automated inventory audit that collects the running software version, serial number, and installed module list from 40 Nexus 9000 switches, then generates a report. The engineer wants to use Ansible without writing custom parsing logic or issuing raw show commands that require regex screen-scraping. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Use the cisco.nxos.nxos_facts module with the gather_subset parameter and reference the returned structured ansible_net_ facts in a template

Answer

Use the cisco.nxos.nxos_command module to run 'show version' and 'show module', then parse the stdout with regex_search filters

Answer

Enable NX-API and call each switch with the uri module, then hand-write JSON parsers for every CLI response

Answer

Configure model-driven telemetry dial-out to a gRPC collector and export the data to a spreadsheet manually