ok thank you Dick, I follow you. Anyway, this is what I came up with and
it worked like a charm.
---
- name: DF + UPTIME PLAYBOOK
hosts: "*"
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- shell: |
/usr/bin/w
/usr/bin/df -h
register: dfu
- debug: var=dfu.stdout_lines
- name: Create email body
set_fact:
email_body: |
<html>
<body>
<pre>
{{ dfu.stdout |replace('\n', '<br>') }}
</pre>
</body>
</html>
- name: mail result
community.general.mail:
sender: [email protected]
host: internal-smtp.xxxxx.com
subtype: html
to: '[email protected]'
subject: test
body: "{{ email_body }}"
...
On Friday, June 23, 2023 at 1:32:34 PM UTC-4 Dick Visser wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 at 18:40, dbs34 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have tried various ways to get my output to email in a readable format,
>> with newlines, but ansible strips them off everytime. Its just a few shell
>> commands i am testing. I've tried a for loop, with items, replace, etc.
>> My email output is all on one-line like so:
>>
>> "- ' 12:23:27 up 64 days, 1:36, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.08, 0.02'
>> - USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT - 'dbsxxx pts/0 ho-it-dbsxxx-dt
>> Tue08 19:39m 0.16s 0.30s sshd: dbsxxxx [priv]' - root pts/1
>> ho-lx-ansible01. 12:23 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s /usr/bin/w - Filesystem Size Used
>> Avail Use% Mounted on - devtmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0%
>> /dev/shm - tmpfs 11G 1.1G 9.1G 11% /run - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> - /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 46G 28G 19G 61% / - /dev/mapper/rootvg-home 10G
>> 33M 10G 1% /home - /dev/sda1 1.1G 383M 656M 37% /boot -
>> /dev/mapper/satvg-satlv01 503G 408G 96G 82% /var/satellite -
>> /dev/mapper/oravg-oralv01 142G 41G 102G 29% /opt/oracle - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G
>> 0% /run/user/0 - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/1922732921 "
>>
>> my yaml code is:
>>
>> - name: DF + UPTIME PLAYBOOK
>> hosts: "*"
>> gather_facts: false
>>
>> tasks:
>> - shell: |
>> /usr/bin/w
>> /usr/bin/df -h
>> register: dfu
>>
>> - debug: var=dfu.stdout_lines
>>
>> - name: mail result
>> community.general.mail:
>> sender: [email protected]
>> host: internal-smtp.xxxxxx.com
>> subtype: html
>> to: '[email protected]'
>> subject: test
>> body: <h3> "{{ dfu.stdout_lines | to_nice_yaml(indent=4) }}" </h3>
>> ...
>>
>> How do I tell ansible to output in a email format like the way I see it
>> from the debug output on my screen?
>
>
>
> The console is using a fixed width font, while your mail client is not.
> You need to format the email body in a way that your mail client uses a
> fixed width font to display it. This is not something this list is for, but
> as a start wrap the output in <pre> tags instead of <h3>.
> Google for email formatting and html to tweak things further.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> ok: [ho-lx-sys-olm01] =>
>> dfu.stdout_lines:
>> - ' 12:23:27 up 64 days, 1:36, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.08,
>> 0.02'
>> - USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
>> - 'dbxxxx pts/0 ho-it-dbxxx-dt Tue08 19:39m 0.16s 0.30s sshd:
>> dbsxxx [priv]'
>> - root pts/1 ho-lx-ansible01. 12:23 0.00s 0.10s 0.00s
>> /usr/bin/w
>> - Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> - devtmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev
>> - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /dev/shm
>> - tmpfs 11G 1.1G 9.1G 11% /run
>> - tmpfs 11G 0 11G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> - /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 46G 28G 19G 61% /
>> - /dev/mapper/rootvg-home 10G 33M 10G 1% /home
>> - /dev/sda1 1.1G 383M 656M 37% /boot
>> - /dev/mapper/satvg-satlv01 503G 408G 96G 82% /var/satellite
>> - /dev/mapper/oravg-oralv01 142G 41G 102G 29% /opt/oracle
>> - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/0
>> - tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /run/user/1922732921
>>
>> thank you!
>>
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