Security Automation with Ansible 2

Downloading reports using the Nessus REST API

The following playbook will use the Nessus REST API to perform export requests for the report for the given scan_id. It will automate the whole process using a simple playbook. This will return the HTML output of the report:

- name: working with nessus rest api  connection: local  hosts: localhost  gather_facts: no  vars:    scan_id: 17    nessus_access_key: 620fe4ffaed47e9fe429ed749207967ecd7a77471105d8    nessus_secret_key: 295414e22dc9a56abc7a89dab713487bd397cf860751a2    nessus_url: https://192.168.33.109:8834    nessus_report_format: html  tasks:    - name: export the report for given scan "{{ scan_id }}"      uri:        url: "{{ nessus_url }}/scans/{{ scan_id }}/export"        method: POST        validate_certs: no        headers: X-ApiKeys: ...