Your output tells you everything you need to know.
skipping: [localhost] => (item={*'name': 'Datacenter-Test'*, 'moid':
'datacenter-1247', 'config_status': 'gray', 'overall_status': 'gray'})
skipping: [localhost] => (item={*'name': 'opendc-rookie'*, 'moid':
'datacenter-2', 'config_status': 'gray', 'overall_status': 'gray'})
skipping: [localhost]
Your condition is
when:
- item.name is defined
* - item.name <http://item.name> == "datacenter"*
In all of the data processed by the look, the value of *'name'* is never
*'datacenter'* so the task is skipped.
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Office of Information Systems Management
National Institute of Standards and Technology
United States Department of Commerce
On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 4:18:43 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
> what are you trying to do exactly?
> i.e. what do you expect the debug task to show?
>
> without knowing the structure of the datacenter variable, it's not really
> possible to help
>
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 at 08:41, 'Pugazhendhi Ramakrishnan' via Ansible
> Project <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm using the below playbook to capture the vmware datacenter
>> information, which is working fine without any issues:
>>
>> ---
>> - hosts: localhost
>> vars_files: 1credentials.yml
>> tasks:
>> - name: Gather information about all datacenters
>> community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info:
>> hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
>> username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
>> password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
>> validate_certs: no
>> delegate_to: localhost
>> register: datacenter
>>
>> - debug:
>> msg: "{{ item.name }}"
>> loop: "{{ datacenter.datacenter_info }}"
>> when:
>> - item.name is defined
>> - item.name == datacenter
>>
>> below is the output:
>>
>> PLAY [localhost]
>> *******************************************************************************************************************************************************
>>
>> TASK [Gathering Facts]
>> *************************************************************************************************************************************************
>> ok: [localhost]
>>
>> TASK [Gather information about all datacenters]
>> ************************************************************************************************************************
>> ok: [localhost]
>>
>> TASK [debug]
>> ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
>> skipping: [localhost] => (item={'name': 'Datacenter-Test', 'moid':
>> 'datacenter-1247', 'config_status': 'gray', 'overall_status': 'gray'})
>> ok: [localhost] => (item={'name': 'opendc-rookie', 'moid':
>> 'datacenter-2', 'config_status': 'gray', 'overall_status': 'gray'}) => {
>> "msg": "opendc-rookie"
>> }
>>
>> PLAY RECAP
>> *************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>> localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0
>> failed=0 skipped=0
>>
>>
>> But when I try to use a variable for the datacenter value as below:
>>
>> ---
>> - hosts: localhost
>> vars_files: 1credentials.yml
>> vars:
>> datacenter: opendc-rookie
>> tasks:
>> - name: Gather information about all datacenters
>> community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info:
>> hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
>> username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
>> password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
>> validate_certs: no
>> delegate_to: localhost
>> register: datacenter
>>
>> - debug:
>> msg: "{{ item.name }}"
>> loop: "{{ datacenter.datacenter_info }}"
>> when:
>> - item.name is defined
>> - item.name == "datacenter"
>>
>> It is skipping the debug task. Kindly suggest how can I incorporate the
>> variable value with the when condition having item. Below is the output
>> skipping the variable
>> PLAY [localhost]
>> *******************************************************************************************************************************************************
>>
>> TASK [Gathering Facts]
>> *************************************************************************************************************************************************
>> ok: [localhost]
>>
>> TASK [Gather information about all datacenters]
>> ************************************************************************************************************************
>> ok: [localhost]
>>
>> TASK [debug]
>> ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
>> skipping: [localhost] => (item={'name': 'Datacenter-Test', 'moid':
>> 'datacenter-1247', 'config_status': 'gray', 'overall_status': 'gray'})
>> skipping: [localhost] => (item={'name': 'opendc-rookie', 'moid':
>> 'datacenter-2', 'config_status': 'gray', 'overall_status': 'gray'})
>> skipping: [localhost]
>>
>> PLAY RECAP
>> *************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>> localhost : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0
>> failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0
>>
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