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January 21, 2021

Ansible Callback-Plugins

Ansibles Callback plugins control most of the output you see when running the command line programs, but can also be used to add additional output, integrate with other tools and marshall the events to a storage backend

Description of the Portqry.exe command-line utility - Windows Server | Microsoft Docs
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Portqry.exe is a command-line utility that you can use to help troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity issues. The utility reports the port status of TCP and UDP ports on a computer that you select.

Use Ansible's YAML callback plugin for a better CLI experience | Jeff Geerling

Ansible is a great tool for automating IT workflows, and I use it to manage hundreds of servers and cloud services on a daily basis. One of my small annoyances with Ansible, though, is it's default CLI output—whenever there's a command that fails, or a command or task that succeeds and dumps a bunch of output to the CLI, the default visible output is not very human-friendly.