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Important

This connector is only available for tenants that onboarded after July 26, 2026. For tenants that onboarded before this date, use Marketplace to access the standalone integration. For more information, see Marketplace.

This connector is available with any active Cortex XSIAM or Cortex AgentiX license.

Red Hat Ansible is an IT automation tool for configuring systems, deploying software, and orchestrating advanced IT tasks. This connector groups Ansible-powered integrations that manage a wide range of targets directly from Cortex — Linux and Windows hosts, Cisco IOS/NXOS network devices, Kubernetes, VMware, DNS records, certificates (ACME/OpenSSL), public clouds (Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Hetzner Cloud), and Ansible Automation Platform. The Ansible engine is self-contained and pre-configured, exposing Ansible modules as commands so you can use them without needing to know Ansible.

This connector includes the following sub-capabilities (Marketplace integrations link to PAN DEV for more information):

• AnsibleACME: Control Automatic Certificate Management Environment on Linux hosts.
• AnsibleAlibabaCloud: Manage Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Instances.
• AnsibleAzure: Manage Azure resources.
• AnsibleCiscoIOS: Cisco IOS Platform management over SSH.
• AnsibleCiscoNXOS: Cisco NX-OS Platform management over SSH.
• AnsibleDNS: Manage DNS records using NSUpdate.
• AnsibleHCloud: Manage your Hetzner Cloud environment.
• AnsibleKubernetes: Manage Kubernetes.
• AnsibleLinux: Agentlesss Linux host management over SSH.
• AnsibleMicrosoftWindows: Agentless Windows host management over WinRM.
• AnsibleOpenSSL: Control OpenSSL on a remote Linux hosts.
• AnsibleTower: Scale IT automation, manage complex deployments, and speed productivity.
• AnsibleVMware: Manage VMware vSphere Server, Guests, and ESXi Hosts.

To configure this connector, follow the steps outlined in the configuration wizard.