Well as a workaround I could use: ansible-playbook ping_email.yml >>
/tmp/file.txt to save the output as a file. But I hope there could be a
better way.
Thanks.
On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 3:34:47 PM UTC-5 Frank Ling wrote:
> >>What makes it weird?
> I wanted to save the ansible ping results to /tmp/file.txt so I can email
> out the result.
>
> After running the playbook, I just got following saved in /tmp/file.txt:
>
> {"ping": "pong", "failed": false, "changed": false}
>
> >>What were you expecting instead?
>
> I added a few lines in the playbook as:
>
> ---
> - hosts: test-vms
> tasks:
> - name: Ping vms in test-vms
> ansible.builtin.ping:
> register: ping_pong
> ignore_errors: True
>
> - name: Ping result
> ansible.builtin.ping:
> register: ping_screen
>
> - name: Ping the result to the screen
> ansible.builtin.debug:
> var: ping_screen
>
>
>
> - name: Copy the output result to /tmp/file.txt
> ansible.builtin.copy:
> content: "{{ ping_pong }}"
> dest: /tmp/file.txt
>
> When I ran it, the ping result would show on the screen as following and I
> would like to save following result to /tmp/file.txt:
>
> ...
>
> TASK [Ping the result to the screen]
> ***********************************************************************************
> ok: [test-vm01] => {
> "ping_screen": {
> "changed": false,
> "failed": false,
> "ping": "pong"
> }
> }
> ok: [test-vm02] => {
> "ping_screen": {
> "changed": false,
> "failed": false,
> "ping": "pong"
> }
> }
> ok: [test-vm03] => {
> "ping_screen": {
> "changed": false,
> "failed": false,
> "ping": "pong"
> }
> }
>
> ....
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 3:21:44 PM UTC-5 Matt Martz wrote:
>
>> Also, it helps when you clarify what you want to see, instead of "I got
>> this weird result".
>>
>> What makes it weird? What were you expecting instead?
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 2:09 PM Frank Ling <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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