Have you checked the event viewer on the remote windows machine? I haven't used Octopus Deploy / Tentacle so don't know if it is attempting any operations on remote machines during its installation. If so its possible you are hitting a 'second hop' issue - going from Ansible box to windows host A and from windows host A to windows host B is, roughly speaking, not allowed (with the connection methods available at the moment).
What error do you get when running the script via ansible (use -vvvvvv to extract full output from the windows machine)? You can run export ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 before running your playbook if you want to keep the files on the server, although this is usually only done to debug modules. Probably best asking about the NullReferenceException via octopusdeploy's site, although this issue here sounds a little like what you are encountering: http://help.octopusdeploy.com/discussions/problems/25989-nullreferenceexception-after-moving-octopus-server Hope this helps, Jon On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 14:04:42 UTC, Mark Matthews wrote: > > Hi > > I hae a playbook that runs a powershell script to configure an Octopus > Deploy Tentacle. > > If I run this powershell script on the server it works perfectly. If I run > playbook with the powershell script it fails on the server. > > What could possibly be causing this? Permissions? Timing out? > > > Playbook: > --- > - name: Configure Octopus Deploy Tentecle > hosts: all > tasks: > - name: Configure Octopus Deploy Tentecle > script: files/octo_autoconfig.ps1 > > > Powershell script: > > & "C:\Program Files\Octopus Deploy\Tentacle\Tentacle.exe" create-instance > --instance "Tentacle" --config "C:\Octopus\Tentacle.config" --console; > & "C:\Program Files\Octopus Deploy\Tentacle\Tentacle.exe" new-certificate > --instance "Tentacle" --if-blank --console; > & "C:\Program Files\Octopus Deploy\Tentacle\Tentacle.exe" configure > --instance "Tentacle" --reset-trust --console; > & "C:\Program Files\Octopus Deploy\Tentacle\Tentacle.exe" configure > --instance "Tentacle" --home "C:\Octopus" --app "C:\Octopus\Applications" > --port "10933" --noListen "False" --console; > & "C:\Program Files\Octopus Deploy\Tentacle\Tentacle.exe" configure > --instance "Tentacle" --trust "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" > --console; > & "C:\Program Files\Octopus Deploy\Tentacle\Tentacle.exe" service > --instance "Tentacle" --install --start --console; > > Error I get when I try open Octopus Tenticle after running the playbook to > config Octopus: > > System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of > an object. > at > Octopus.Tools.TentacleConfiguration.TentacleManager.TentacleManagerModel.Reload(ApplicationInstanceRecord > > applicationInstance) in > y:\work\refs\heads\master\source\Octopus.Tools\TentacleConfiguration\TentacleManager\TentacleManagerModel.cs:line > > 131 > at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate > callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs) > at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object > source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate > catchHandler) > > > Note that if I run the Powershell script directly on the server it works > perfectly and configures the tentacle. If I then remove the tentacle and > then run the playbook it works. So its as if the tenticle needs to be > configured first directly on the server before an Ansible playbook can > work. Which kind of defeats the point. > > Im thinking that Ansible is deleting the powershell script from the temp > directly it saves it to before the script is finishing running? Is that > possible? > Is there a way of telling Ansible to wait until everything is completed in > the script before it moves on or removes the temp file? > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > Cheers > Mark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/abdc0ec2-cd52-41b0-89a5-9f930a29edf4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
