Ok Ajay, Thanks. will do that right now

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:51 PM Ajay Tripathi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 9:47:11 PM UTC+5:30, Noumbissi Valere
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 1)I don't know if i am getting the problem this project is trying to
>> solve correctly or not but this is how i understood it, please correct me
>> if am wrong.
>> The netjsonconfig library is used to convert netjson device config to
>> native configurations and vice versa and presently we can only do it on the
>> device itself, for example, if we have an openwrt router on which we wish
>> to convert some netjson config to native config which can be used on the
>> router, we have to move to the router and do all the configurations on it.
>> thus if we have 1000 routers, we will have to do this for all the 1000
>> routers. Thus the project is trying to use the features of ansible (which
>> are inventories, playbook and modules) to automate this configuration
>> process. thus with the module available on ansible, the admin can simply
>> sit on his controller machine and perform netjsonconfig operations on as
>> many routers as he has and want on the fly.
>>
>
> Yes, netjsonconfig is used to convert NetJSON to a system configuration
> (called backend in this context), however, netjsonconfig is not installed
> on your router rather it's used by django-netjsonconfig and integrated in
> the server-end openwisp application. (Which is installed by the
> ansible-openwisp.)
> You can even test it out by installing the application on your machine
> which i highly encourge you to do. :)
>
>
>>
>> 2) The project title says *ansible plugin for netjsonconfig library *Please
>> are we building an ansible plugin or ansible module?
>>
>
> To my best understanding I think it should be "module" not a "plugin". But
> I was wondering about it myself, please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Best,
> Ajay Tripathi
>
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