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I am newbie to Ansible and I have some specific queries:

  1. Application/Web Serves Run-time Snapshot & Drift : Do we have out of the box Ansible playbooks which can create Application Server level Snapshot, For example a WAS ND Snapshot will be having details like JVM, JDBC, JMS, Shared Lib, Virtual Hosts in a XML format or some other format and Drift here means the difference between two snapshot take in two different times and a detailed report on the difference and similarities. What I would also like to know is if Ansible Tower can give detailed View of each Application/Web Server configuration in detail for each environment? I am looking for products like WAS ND, WLS, Tomcat, WildFly/Jboss, WAS CE, IHS, IIS, OHS

  2. Application/Web Server Run-time Configurations update: Here Runtime configuration update means, suppose I want to update only a JMS topic or create a new Shared Library on an existing WAS ND instance as part of a release. Do we have out of the box Ansible playbooks which can do this?

  3. I would like to know if there are out of the box Ansible playbooks which can do Run Time Configuration Snapshot/Drift & Run time Configuration deployment/updates for following products :

Messaging : TIBCO EMS, WMQ, Rabbit MQ, Active MQ, TIBCO BE, TIBCO BW BPM : AMX BPM, Oracle BPM, TIBCO BPM

  1. Does Ansible have integration with the following: PaaS : PCF, Red Hat Open Shift integration?

  2. Environment Replication/Migration : Does Ansible Tower have the feature to replicate or migrate an existing environment of any given Tech stack or combination to a new environment? For example: migrating a WAS ND environment having 2 clusters, 4 nodes and 20 JVMs to a PROD environment of 4 clusters, 10 Nodes, 100 JVMs, this goes for other tech stacks[Web Servers/Messaging/BPM etc] as well that I have mentioned above.

  3. Environment Comparison in Detail : Does Ansible Tower have the feature to compare two environment of any given Tech stack? For example: comparing a UAT WAS ND with a PROD WAS ND environment, this goes for other tech stacks[Web Servers/Messaging/BPM etc] as well that I have mentioned above.

  4. Searching Configurations : Does Ansible Tower have the feature to search configurations in multiple environment(s) of any given Tech stack? For example: searching a JEE applications JDBC data source value in its DEV, UAT and PROD WAS ND environments, this goes for other tech stacks[Web Servers/Messaging/BPM etc] as well that I have mentioned above.

I would really appreciate if anybody could give me more details on my above queries.