Chapter 6 Network Reconnaissance

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Chapter 6 Network Reconnaissance

“Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”

― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey Gathering information about network devices and logical topology are the next steps to network automation. The Ansible / Cisco ios_facts module is used to gather platform information while the ios_command module is used to run commands and gather output. These are foundational steps to build upon.

Sample Enterprise Network Topology