[ansible-project] win_updates fail

2018-05-15 Thread Nico
Hi there, I'm using the win_updates module but the module fails to install any updates. - name: Install all security, critical, and rollup updates block: - win_updates: category_names: - SecurityUpdates - CriticalUpdates - UpdateRollups reboot: yes

Re: [ansible-project] AWS ec2 creation problems with boto; boto3 running playbooks on AWS (first try on AWS)

2018-05-15 Thread computerprosupport
I dont know much about python: How can i specify which version to use? Which version should I set? I thought pyenv would handle this but it seems broken? | => sudo pyenv global dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.6.dylib Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ba

Re: [ansible-project] AWS ec2 creation problems with boto; boto3 running playbooks on AWS (first try on AWS)

2018-05-15 Thread Michael Pechner
You are confusing python3, pip3, and python2, pip. Plus of usng brew, you have 2 versioons of python2 on your system. /usr/bin/python and /usr/local/bin/python. Make sure you have setup your paths and chosen the version and instance of python you prefer to use. michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ mpechner$

[ansible-project] Re: Best way to run powershell command?

2018-05-15 Thread Jordan Borean
Environment variables are set for all modules, except raw (and maybe script I can't remember). It is a mechanism done by Ansible before running the module code. Thanks Jordan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe

[ansible-project] AWS ec2 creation problems with boto; boto3 running playbooks on AWS (first try on AWS)

2018-05-15 Thread computerprosupport
I am trying to create and ec2 instance from my Mac OSX machine.I highlighted the failure in Yellow. I have installed boto and boto3 via pip and there were no error messages on install. | => pip3 list Package Version --- --- boto2.48.0 boto3 1.7.

[ansible-project] Re: Best way to run powershell command?

2018-05-15 Thread Ab Generette
Ah, ok. I thought I needed to use win_shell, because of the need to set environment variables. I see that's not the case, though. Thx. On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 5:42:21 PM UTC-4, Jordan Borean wrote: > > No worries, I was just curious as to why it wasn't pipelining. The syntax > you had the

Re: [ansible-project] playbooks and tasks

2018-05-15 Thread Nick Rogers
Brian states things the way we define them. I broke things up that way for a few reasons: - Development process: Our dev team works in a similar fashion with their code base, and objectifying the infrastructure Ansible is controlling in a similar way lets the dev team use my Ansible work on thei

[ansible-project] Re: Best way to run powershell command?

2018-05-15 Thread Jordan Borean
No worries, I was just curious as to why it wasn't pipelining. The syntax you had there seemed good to me, the only thing I would recommend is to use win_command instead of win_shell when calling the Python executable. The win_shell module should be used to execute things in a shell interpreter

[ansible-project] Re: Best way to run powershell command?

2018-05-15 Thread Ab Generette
Ok, I think I'm going to pull back and work on upgrading both Python (to 2.7.5) and Ansible. We're 2.2.1.0, where the latter is concerned. Thanks for your help, Jordan. -Anthony On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 3:42:29 PM UTC-4, Jordan Borean wrote: > > The main issue you have is that there is a co

[ansible-project] Re: Best way to run powershell command?

2018-05-15 Thread Jordan Borean
The main issue you have is that there is a compatibility issue with pywinrm 0.3.0 and Pythoon 2.6 as shown here https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/issues/204. This is a controller side issue and you either need to downgrade pywinrm to 0.2.2 or use Python 2.7, 3.5+. Also what version of Ansible a

Re: [ansible-project] playbooks and tasks

2018-05-15 Thread Brian Coca
playbook => contains plays play => maps hosts to tasks roles => reusable content, can be vars, templates, files, tasks, etc task => action to perform on a host playbook does get overloaded as it is both an object and a file that contains plays, but files that contain just tasks (task lists) ar

[ansible-project] Different output from URI module on different ansible versions.

2018-05-15 Thread canta
Hi all. I'm having a problem with the URI module: in two different servers, with different ansible versions, I get different output from the same uri call. I'm taking some code from the uri module docs themselves, like this: ```yaml - name: create authentication cookie uri: url: "{{

[ansible-project] playbooks and tasks

2018-05-15 Thread Mauricio Tavares
I was reading the thread "VMware - convert template to virtual machines" and when I saw Nick's structure I realized I do have a lot to learn conceptually about ansible. Specifically having playbooks and roles separated. I always thought that the tasks inside roles were considered playbooks.

[ansible-project] Re: Question on 'networks' parameter for VMWare cloud module

2018-05-15 Thread Nick Rogers
Ansible creates a sysprep/linuxprep script: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/3a6f0fbb9c698b9440f1c21c973822d1b8883124/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py#L1239 I have a lab with only static IPs and the networks parameter(s) work fine for me when creating new/cloning. On Frid

[ansible-project] Re: VMware - convert template to virtual machines

2018-05-15 Thread Nick Rogers
It looks to me like "num_cpus" is number of sockets, and "num_cpu_cores_per_socket" can set the cores per socket. Is that what you're asking? or am I way off the mark... If you don't specify "num_cpu_cores_per_socket", it defaults to 1, if I'm reading the pyvmomi source correctly: https://git

Re: [ansible-project] delegate_to with --extra-vars usage

2018-05-15 Thread Brian Coca
quotes!: delegate_to: "{{ groups[v_grp] | random }}" -- -- Brian Coca -- 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.

Re: [ansible-project] delegate_to with --extra-vars usage

2018-05-15 Thread Kai Stian Olstad
On 15.05.2018 17:51, 'deewon' via Ansible Project wrote: Trying to do something that seems straightforward but can't work out why its failing. I'm simply trying to pass a random server within a group whose name is supplied at execution time to a task using "delegate_to" and "--extra-vars" but

[ansible-project] best way to go about dhcp

2018-05-15 Thread lpescatore via Ansible Project
Hi, Posting a hypothetical. Since my windows environment relies on a hosts file with addresses in said file, what do you do when your environment is dhcp? Like if the IPs keep changing, whats to be done in the hosts file? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

[ansible-project] Re: time out

2018-05-15 Thread lpescatore via Ansible Project
Hi, just curious, when you run this , what do you get? ansible -i (hosts path) -m ping On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 7:25:49 AM UTC-7, Tcpip wrote: > > > Hi all, > > ansible 2.4.0.0 > config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg > configured module search path = > [u'/home/notebook/.ansible/plugins

Re: [ansible-project] delegate_to with --extra-vars usage

2018-05-15 Thread Brian Coca
do --extra-vars="v_grp=testgrp" -- -- Brian Coca -- 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 p

[ansible-project] delegate_to with --extra-vars usage

2018-05-15 Thread 'deewon' via Ansible Project
Trying to do something that seems straightforward but can't work out why its failing. I'm simply trying to pass a random server within a group whose name is supplied at execution time to a task using "delegate_to" and "--extra-vars" but it doesn't like it i.e delegate_to: {{ groups.v_grp

Re: [ansible-project] Re: VMware - convert template to virtual machines

2018-05-15 Thread Edward Ahern
Thanks Sebastian On Tue 15 May 2018 at 14:27, Sebastien Desbois wrote: > Hello, > > I will try to put it in a github > > > Le vendredi 27 avril 2018 22:55:08 UTC+2, Ted a écrit : > >> Hi Sebastien, >> >> Thanks very much for the comprehensive reply. Would you be able to share >> any of those scr

[ansible-project] Best way to run powershell command?

2018-05-15 Thread Ab Generette
On my (winrm) target host, I am able to run the following: PS C:\Users\agenerette> c:/Python27/python.exe c:/xx/run/yy/tests/confluence_api_test.py When I try to incorporate that into a playbook, however, I get a great block of mostly encoded error output that I'm not able to make sense of.

[ansible-project] Re: Best way to run Python scripts against Managed Cygwin nodes

2018-05-15 Thread Ab Generette
Since I'm no longer going to try and run this via a script, I'd like to close this topic and start another one. On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 2:52:55 PM UTC-4, Ab Generette wrote: > > I have a CentOS7 control server from which I am trying to manage a few > Server2012/Cygwin nodes. Those latter nod

[ansible-project] Re: Question on 'networks' parameter for VMWare cloud module

2018-05-15 Thread EspressoBeanies
Hi Sebastien, apologies for the delay. I'm using the 'vmware_guest' module. From the documentation I've been reading, it seems the 'network' actions have no effect on the VM itself as those have to be assigned at the OS-level, not the VM-level. I don't understand why the authors added that as

[ansible-project] Re: 'unarchive' has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules

2018-05-15 Thread Sumer Singh
sorry .. correct module are given below with line number 35- name: "Copying and untar the S3 downloaded file" 36 unarchive: src:/ebsvol/OptiMaxAmigo/OptiMax/playbook/CD/omx-11.tar dest:/ebsvol/OptiMaxAmigo/omx-11.tar On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:27:20 UTC+5:30, Sumer Singh wrote: > > E

[ansible-project] Re: 'unarchive' has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules

2018-05-15 Thread Sumer Singh
Hi , Can any one help to find the system error on unarchive module -- 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.c

[ansible-project] Re: 'unarchive' has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules

2018-05-15 Thread Sumer Singh
- name: "Restore the backup config files" copy: src=/ebsvol/BKUP/optimax.properties dest=/ebsvol/OptiMaxAmigo/Optimax/config/optimax.properties mode=0777 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this g

[ansible-project] 'unarchive' has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules

2018-05-15 Thread Sumer Singh
ERROR! this task 'unarchive' has extra params, which is only allowed in the following modules: command, win_command, shell, win_shell, script, include, include_vars, include_tasks, include_role, import_tasks, import_role, add_host, group_by, set_fact, raw, meta The error appears to have been in

Re: [ansible-project] Re: VMware - convert template to virtual machines

2018-05-15 Thread Sebastien Desbois
Hello, I will try to put it in a github Le vendredi 27 avril 2018 22:55:08 UTC+2, Ted a écrit : > > Hi Sebastien, > > Thanks very much for the comprehensive reply. Would you be able to share > any of those scripts / playbooks you mentioned. I’ve no familiarity with > powercli and have yet to d

[ansible-project] access to register stdout_lines attributes

2018-05-15 Thread 'deewon' via Ansible Project
Hi, I have a task that executes a shell command and spews out a few lines. Specifically, it probes a remote DB and and returns some information . Please see below: - name: Test role delegation to apps hosts: appboxes tasks: - name: get cluster status from dbboxes shell: mysqlsh -

[ansible-project] Re: Best way to run Python scripts against Managed Cygwin nodes

2018-05-15 Thread Ab Generette
I've done a bit of switching, ssh to winrm and back, again, while troubleshooting this one. There are just a number of things that have been getting run on these hosts, from their consoles, in Cygwin: things like runs of those two Python scripts. I'm trying just trying to automate that stuff.

[ansible-project] string concatenation with special characters

2018-05-15 Thread Ali Khawaja
i am trying to append a backslash between two string variables. dc + '/' + item this works fine. but what i need is backslash. i could not figure how to insert a backslash. i have tried two backslashes, lot of other trial and error but nothing works. can anyone please let me know what the issu

[ansible-project] Role Dependencies - download only

2018-05-15 Thread ProfHase
Hi together, managing a bigger project I am defining role dependencies in role's # meta.yml - name: myrole src: git+git@myserver/myrole.git version: master The problem is that ansible also *always* executes the dependencies *prior* to the role, some of the role dependencies should be

Re: [ansible-project] Need help in updating /etc/grub.conf file to disable THP in linux server using Ansible

2018-05-15 Thread Padmesh Singh
Please suggest how to do that. Thanks -- 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, s