Glad its working. I don't know why those other variable names might be
failing.
Perhaps worth checking your playbook is valid yaml. I like to use either
notepad++ as it has YAML syntax hightlighting, or use www.yamlint.com to
check for correctness.
Jon
On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 14:54:06 UTC, Mark Matthews wrote:
>
> Hi Jon
>
> Thanks for the quick response...
>
> Using the information you provided I did the following playbook
> below...and it worked perfectly.
>
> So for some reason when I tried to use the following variable names it
> kept failing...'web_stat_file', ''file_info', 'web_fileinfo'
> Will have to read through and see why the only variable that works is
> 'host_fileinfo'
>
>
> ---
> - name: Check Host file
> hosts: all
> tasks:
> - name: Stat the web.config file
> win_stat:
> path: C:\Websites\Live\Web.config
> register: hosts_fileinfo
> - name: show web.config file stats for debugging purposes
> debug:
> var: hosts_fileinfo
>
> - name: fail if modified
> fail:
> msg: "WEB.CONFIG file has been modified"
> when: hosts_fileinfo.stat.checksum !=
> "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
>
>
> Thanks again for all your help.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 10:25:31 AM UTC, Mark Matthews wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> What is the best way to monitor any changes made to a Windows file
>> (Either the web.config or hosts file)?
>>
>> I want to be able to check that these files have not been changed at all,
>> and if they have, Ansible picks that up and warns me and I can change it
>> back to a template.
>>
>> I am currently using the following playbook for the host file, but was
>> wondering if there is sa easier way? As I want to do our web.config file?
>>
>>
>> ---
>> - name: Check Host File Entries
>> hosts: all
>> tasks:
>> - name: Check Host File Entries
>> win_lineinfile:
>> dest: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
>> regexp: "{{item.regexp}}"
>> line: "{{item.line}}"
>>
>> with_items:
>> - { regexp: '^10.10.3.76 www.test.co.uk', line: '10.10.3.76
>> www.test.co.uk' }
>> - { regexp: '^10.10.3.77 www.test1.co.uk', line: '10.10.3.77
>> www.test1.co.uk' }
>> - { regexp: '^10.10.3.77 ca.test1.com', line: '10.10.3.77
>> ca.test1.com' }
>> - { regexp: '^10.10.3.74 www.test3.com', line: '10.10.3.74
>> www.test3.com' }
>> - { regexp: '^10.10.3.19 test4.com', line: '10.10.3.19
>> test4.com' }
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mark
>>
>
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