Ansible collection for Solarwinds

I'd really like to see more of this... we're utilizing more and more of ansible and one area I've been investigating is keeping Orion agents for linux configured and installed the way I want on RedHat.  When we PXE boot a new RH host I want the agent installed and configured the way I want using ansible as part of the build process and PXE boot for new machines.  We already are doing the entire PXE boot process to setup clevis and tang for network bound disk encryption and to STIG our new hosts.  Perhaps thwack needs a community just for ansible?

The trick seems to be we want ansible to be able to automatically install the Orion agent for the correct platform then configure the agent the way we like and be able to keep all the hosts configured and running this way.  We don't want to init the agent and manually configure each linux agent by hand each time... having to list resources, select what we want then submit.  Ansible should be able to do all of this for us and even like I stated above... do it during the PXE boot build process for every linux host we deploy.  This is the goal at least right now.

Ask yourself this... would you like to manually configure each of 1000 linux hosts in Orion?  And then what happens when some of the agents start not responding or working the way they are supposed to?

Bill

I'd really like to see more of this... we're utilizing more and more of ansible and one area I've been investigating is keeping Orion agents for linux configured and installed the way I want on RedHat.  When we PXE boot a new RH host I want the agent installed and configured the way I want using ansible as part of the build process and PXE boot for new machines.  We already are doing the entire PXE boot process to setup clevis and tang for network bound disk encryption and to STIG our new hosts.  Perhaps thwack needs a community just for ansible?

The trick seems to be we want ansible to be able to automatically install the Orion agent for the correct platform then configure the agent the way we like and be able to keep all the hosts configured and running this way.  We don't want to init the agent and manually configure each linux agent by hand each time... having to list resources, select what we want then submit.  Ansible should be able to do all of this for us and even like I stated above... do it during the PXE boot build process for every linux host we deploy.  This is the goal at least right now.

Ask yourself this... would you like to manually configure each of 1000 linux hosts in Orion?  And then what happens when some of the agents start not responding or working the way they are supposed to?

Bill