Thanks for the reply.

>> You're saving the result for each host to the same file.
Yeah, you're right. I am not sure how to save the output in Ansible to the 
output in a file like in shell >> /tmp/file 

>>And there is something weird with the inventory you use...
I had the inventory in /etc/ansible/hosts with:

[test-vms]
test-vm01
test-vm02
test-vm03
 Frank

On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 3:00:48 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

> Several things here. 
> You're saving the result for each host to the same file. So you will end 
> up with just one result, from the last host.
> And there is something weird with the inventory you use. Follow the 
> suggestion made by the code (use increased verbosity). 
>
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 at 20:54, Frank Ling <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I need some helps for fixing the bug of saving the Ansible ping results 
>> to a local file. 
>>
>> Appreciate your help. 
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> After running the playbook, I got this weird result:
>>
>> cat /tmp/file.txt
>>
>> {"ping": "pong", "failed": false, "changed": false}
>>
>> ============================================
>>
>> Here is the playbook:
>>
>> ---
>> - hosts: test-vms 
>>   tasks:
>>     - name: Ping vms in test-vms
>>       ansible.builtin.ping: 
>>          register: ping_pong
>>          ignore_errors: True
>>
>>     - name: Copy the output result to /tmp/file.txt 
>>       ansible.builtin.copy: 
>>           content: "{{ ping_pong }}"
>>           dest: /tmp/file.txt
>>
>> ===================================================
>>
>> $ ansible-playbook ping_email.yml
>> [WARNING]: Invalid characters were found in group names but not replaced, 
>> use -vvvv to see details
>> [WARNING]: Found both group and host with same name: localhost
>>
>> PLAY [test-vms] 
>> ********************************************************************************************************
>>
>> TASK [Gathering Facts] 
>> *************************************************************************************************
>> ok: [test-vm03]
>> ok: [test-vm02]
>> ok: [test-vm01]
>>
>> TASK [Ping vms in test-vms] 
>> ********************************************************************************************
>> ok: [test-vm03]
>> ok: [test-vm02]
>> ok: [test-vm01]
>>
>> TASK [Copy the output result to /tmp/file.txt] 
>> *************************************************************************
>> changed: [test-vm01]
>> changed: [test-vm02]
>> changed: [test-vm03]
>>
>> PLAY RECAP 
>> *************************************************************************************************************
>> test-vm01                  : ok=3    changed=1    unreachable=0   
>>  failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0   
>> test-vm02                  : ok=3    changed=1    unreachable=0   
>>  failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0   
>> test-vm03                  : ok=3    changed=1    unreachable=0   
>>  failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0 
>>
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