Please find the task output below, usually all the jobs go to changed state
true and the play successfully so i have passed a failed when condition to
identify the failure
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TASK [Runing mksysb backup]
****************************************************
changed: [server1]
fatal: [server2]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "failed_when_result": true,
"msg": "\nCreating information file (/image.data) for rootvg.\n\nCreating
list of files to back up \n\nBacking up 153927
files..............................\n110142 of 153927 files backed up
(71%)....\n\n0512-003 mksysb may not have been able to archive some
files.\nThe messages displayed on the Standard Error contained
additional\ninformation.\n"}
TASK [Copy output to file]
*****************************************************
changed: [server1 -> localhost)]
------------------------------------------------------------
Failed output
{
"changed": true,
"msg": "\nCreating information file (/image.data) for rootvg.\n\nCreating
list of files to back up \n\nBacking up 153927
files..............................\n110142 of 153927 files backed up
(71%)....\n\n0512-003 mksysb may not have been able to archive some
files.\nThe messages displayed on the Standard Error contained
additional\ninformation.\n",
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"name": "server2.mksysb",
"storage_path": "/backup",
"exclude_files": true,
"backup_crypt_files": true,
"backup_dmapi_fs": true,
"create_map_files": false,
"exclude_wpar_files": false,
"extended_attrs": true,
"new_image_data": true,
"software_packing": false,
"use_snapshot": false
}
},
"_ansible_no_log": null,
"failed_when_result": true
}
===============================================================================
Sucessfull output
{
"changed": true,
"msg": "\nCreating information file (/image.data) for rootvg.\n\nCreating
list of files to back up \n\nBacking up 88146
files................\n\n88146 of 88146 files backed up (100%)\n0512-038
mksysb: Backup Completed Successfully.\n",
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"name": "server1.mksysb",
"storage_path": "/backup",
"exclude_files": true,
"backup_crypt_files": true,
"backup_dmapi_fs": true,
"create_map_files": false,
"exclude_wpar_files": false,
"extended_attrs": true,
"new_image_data": true,
"software_packing": false,
"use_snapshot": false
}
},
"_ansible_no_log": null,
"failed_when_result": false
}
--------------
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 01:17:32 UTC+5:30 Dick Visser wrote:
> Clearly your when condition doesn't match. But in order to know why, we'd
> need to see the content of a failed backup, and maybe a sample success
> output as well.
> So post that/those.
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 16:32, Kenady Inampudi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to create a report of failed servers output.
>>
>> Here is my playbook
>> ---
>> - hosts: all
>> gather_facts: no
>> tasks:
>> - name: "Runing mksysb backup"
>> mksysb:
>> name: "{{inventory_hostname}}.mksysb"
>> storage_path: /backup
>> exclude_files: yes
>> register: mksys
>> failed_when: '"mksysb: Backup Completed Successfully" not in
>> mksys.msg'
>> - name: Copy output to file
>> copy:
>> dest: /home/user1/mksysb_error_report.out
>> content: |-
>> {% for host in ansible_play_hosts_all %}
>> {{ '###' }}{{ host }}{{ '###' }}
>> {{ '------------------------------------' }}
>> {{ hostvars[host]['mksys']['msg'] }}
>> {% endfor %}
>> run_once: True
>> delegate_to: localhost
>>
>> This gives me output of all the hosts, where i am looking to create the
>> output of failed hosts
>>
>> i tried something like this which gives me nothing
>>
>> {% for host in ansible_play_hosts_all %}
>> * {% if 'Completed Successfully' in
>> hostvars[host]['mksys']['msg'] %}*
>> {{ '###' }}{{ host }}{{ '###' }}
>> {{ '--------------------------' }}
>> {{ hostvars[host]['mksys']['msg'] }}
>> *{% endif %}*
>> {% endfor %}
>>
>> Could some help me out to put condition so i can get the output of just
>> the failed hosts.
>>
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